Stanley Osher

Stanley J. Osher
Born	April 24, 1942(1942-04-24) Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	UCLA, SUNY, Stony Brook, UC Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Jacob Schwartz
Known for	Level set method, Shock capturing methods, Applied mathematics

Stanley Osher (b. 1942) is an American mathematician, known for his many contributions in shock capturing, level set methods, and PDE-based methods in computer vision and image processing. Osher is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of Special Projects in the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA. He also has a daughter and a son, Kathryn and Joel, respectively.

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Level set methods for computing moving fronts
Approximation methods for hyperbolic conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Total variation and other PDE-based image processing techniques
Scientific computing
Applied partial differential equations

National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2005
SIAM Kleinman Prize -- "...for his many contributions to the analysis and computation of hyperbolic equations and their applications in science and engineering, and for his mentoring of young scientists and service to the scientific community. His many innovations in numerical schemes for conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations and in the development of the level set method and its applications have had enormous impact across disciplinary boundaries in image processing, control, flow simulation, and many other fields."
ICIAM Pioneer Prize, 2003
NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award, 1992
US-Israel BSF Fellow, 1986
SERC Fellowship (England), 1982
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1972-1974
Fulbright Fellow, 1971

S. Osher and R. Fedkiw, "Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces", Springer-Verlag, New York (2002).
S. Osher and N. Paragios, "Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision and Graphics", Springer-Verlag, New York (2003).