Charles S. Peskin
Charles S. Peskin (born April 15, 1946 ) is an American mathematician who is particularly concerned with applications of mathematics in biology.
Peskin received his doctorate from Yeshiva University in 1972 under Alexandre Chorin ( Flow Patterns Around the Heart Valves: A Digital Computer Method for Solving the Equations of Motion ). He then went to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , where he is a professor.
Peskin made advances in mathematical biology and hydrodynamics . He introduced a mathematical method with which the interaction of elastic membranes with liquids can be described (Immersed Boundary Method). This method was used in biology, for example, to simulate blood flow, waves in the inner ear or the flight of insects.
In 1983 he was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2003 he received the George David Birkhoff Prize of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), in 1993 he was Gibbs Lecturer at the AMS and in 1986 he received the James H. Wilkinson Prize from the SIAM . In 1994 he received the Cray Research Information Technology Leadership Award and the Sidney Fernbach Award from the IEEE . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994) and the National Academy of Sciences (1995). In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( Optimal dynamic instability of microtubules ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Fonts
- with Frank C. Hoppensteadt : Mathematics in Medicine and the Life Sciences (= Texts in Applied Mathematics. 10). Springer, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-387-97639-6 (2nd edition as: Modeling and Simulation in Medicine and the Life Sciences. Ibid 2002, ISBN 0-387-95072-9 ).
- The immersed boundary method. In: Acta Numerica. Volume 11, 2002, pp. 479-517, doi : 10.1017 / S0962492902000077 .
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| SURNAME | Peskin, Charles S. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1946 |