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Directors
Mark Green, Director |
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Dr. Green was born in Minneapolis in 1947, and grew up in Los Angeles. His connection to UCLA goes back to high school, when he had a summer
job at the Brain Research Institute and took courses in introductory psychology, logic, and computer programming at UCLA. He went back East to
school, getting his BS from MIT and his MA and PhD from Princeton, where his thesis adviser was Phillip Griffiths. After teaching at Berkeley
and MIT, he came to UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 1975. Along with Eitan Tadmor, he was one of IPAM's founding codirectors.
Dr. Green's research has taken him into several areas of mathematics--several complex variables, differential geometry, commutative algebra,
Hodge theory and algebraic geometry. He received an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of
Mathematicians in Berlin. Mark Green can be reached by email at mlg@ipam.ucla.edu
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Christian Ratsch, Associate Director |
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Christian Ratsch grew up in Berlin, Germany, where he received his undergraduate education at the Technical University. He then moved to the
United States, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics at Georgia Tech in 1994. He went on to gain a short appointment at the Imperial College in
London, and then a 2 year post-doc at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin. Christian Ratsch came to the UCLA math department in the summer of 1997.
Christian Ratsch's research interests are mathematical and physical modeling and simulation of problems in materials sciences on all appropriate
time and length scales. His expertise includes density-functional theory (DFT), stochastic, atomistic models (KMC), and continuum type models
(level-sets).
In his spare time, Christian takes full advantage of the Southern California climate. He enjoys running, swimming, cycling, climbing as well as
competing in marathons and triathlons. Christian Ratsch's personal homepage is at www.math.ucla.edu/~cratsch.
He can be reached by email at cratsch@ipam.ucla.edu.
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Stan Osher, Director of Special Projects |
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Stan Osher grew up in Brooklyn, New York and got his MS and PhD (1966) from the Courant Institute, NYU. After working at Brookhaven National Laboratory,
UC Berkeley, and SUNY, Stony Brook, he arrived at UCLA in 1976 as a visiting Professor. He has been here since then. Dr. Osher works in i) level set methods
for computing moving fronts involving topological changes, ii) the development of methods for approximating hyperbolic conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi
equations, iii) total variation and other partial differential equations based image processing techniques and in scientific computing and applied partial
differential equations. He has been a Fulbright and Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, received the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award, and was an invited
speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (1994). His work has been written up numerous times in the scientific and international media, e.g.,
Science News, Die Zeit (both in 1999). Stan Osher can be reached by email at sosher@ipam.ucla.edu |
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