Stanley Osher CEO, Level Set Systems, Inc.

Honors

• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences NAS May, 2005
• Awarded the 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.
• The ICIAM Pioneer Prize, 2003
• Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Computational Mechanics Award, 2002
• ISI Original Highly Cited Researcher, 2001
• Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, 1994
• 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

Interview

• Interview with Stanley Osher at National University of Singapore

Articles in the News

• Special Issue of: Methods and Applications of Analysis, v10, #3, June, 2003, dedicated to Professor Stanley Osher on the occasion of his 60th birthday
• An article about dynamic visibility that appeared in SIAM News
• Tsunami out of the Computer :
  When a catastrophe in the movies should look realistic, Hollywood calls for the mathematicians. English translation from the German article by Vasco A. Schmidt in Die Zeit, a major German weekly newspaper published in Hamburg, Germany. (September 1999)
• Computing at the EdgeThis Science News article explores the level-set approach for modeling complex behavior at interfaces. (April 1999)
• 1999 InnovatorsArticle exploring how mathematicians solve different types of real world problems. (Trans World Airlines Ambassador Magazine, January 1999)
• Math Whizzes Want Respect in Equation Several UCLA Mathematicians were featured in this column one, front page article including interviews with Tony Chan (dept. chair), Stanley Osher, Russel Caflisch, and Mark Green. (Los Angeles Times, July 1998)

Education

• Ph.D., New York University, 1966
• M.S., New York University, 1964
• B.S., Brooklyn College, 1962

Research Interests

• Level set methods for computing moving fronts involving topological changes,
• The development of methods for approximating hyperbolic conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations,
• Total variation and other partial differential equations based image processing techniques and in scientific computing and applied partial differential equations.

Books

• Special issue of Journal of Scientific Computing dedicated to Stanley Osher: December 2003, Volume 19, Issue 1-3
• Shock capturing, level sets, and PDE based methods in computer vision and image processing: a review of Osher’s contributionsRonald P. Fedkiw, Guillermo Sapiro, and Chi-Wang Shu, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 185, Issue 2, 1 March 2003, Pages 309-341
• Recent Advances in Scientific Computing and Partial Differential EquationsEdited by S.Y. Cheng, Chi-Wang Shu, and T. Tang, AMS
• Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision and Graphics, [S. Osher and N. Paragios (eds)], Springer Verlag, August 2002 (in preparation).
• Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces by Stanley Osher and Ronald P. Fedkiw Book listing on amazon.com

Pictures

• International Conference on Scientific Computing, Partial Differential Equations and Image Processing On the Occasion of Stanley Osher’s 60th birthday
• Stanley Osher’s Birthday Picture
• Pictures at the National Academy of Sciences admission, April, 2006

Recent Publications

• LSS 01-01 Stanley Osher, Li-Tien Cheng, Myungjoo Kang, Hyeseon Shim and Yen-Hsi Tsai, Geometric Optics in a Phase Space Based Level Set and Eulerian Framework, Journal of Computational Physics
• LSS 01-02 J. Qian, Li-Tien Cheng and Stanley J. Osher, A Level Set Based Eulerian Approach for Anisotropic Wave Propagations, Wave Motion
• LSS 02-01 Li-Tien Cheng, Stanley Osher and Jianliang Qian, Level Set Based Eulerian Methods for Multivalued Traveltimes in both Isotropic and Anisotropic Media, will appear in Society of Exploration Geophysics (2003)
• LSS 02-02 Li-Tien Cheng, Myungjoo Kang, Stanley Osher, Hyeseon Shim and Yen-Hsi Tsai, Refrection in a Level Set Framework for Geometric Optics, Computer Methods in Engineering and Physics
• LSS 02-03 Stanley Osher and Ronald Fedkiw, Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces, Springer-Verlag
• LSS 03-01 Shi Jin and Stanley Osher, A Level Set Method for the Computation of Multivalued Solutions to Quasi-Linear Hyperbolic PDEs and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, Submitted to Comm. Math. Sci.
• LSS 03-02 Li-Tien Cheng, Hailiang Liu, and Stanley Osher, High-Frequency Wave Propagation in Schrodinger Equations Using the Level Set Method, Submitted to Comm. Math. Sci.
• LSS 03-03 Shi Jin, Hailiang Liu, Stanley Osher, and Richard Tsai, Computing Multivalued Physical Observables for the Semiclassical Limit of the Schrodinger Equation, submitted to Journal of Computational Physics
• LSS 04-01 Hailiang Liu, Li-Tien Cheng, and Stanley Osher, A Level Set Framework for Tracking Multi-Valued Solutions of Nonlinear First-Order Equations, to be submitted
• LSS 05-01 Shi Jin, Hailiang Liu, Stanley Osher, and Richard Tsai, Computing Multi-Valued Physical Observables for the High Frequency Limit of Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems, submitted to Journal of Computational Physics
• LSS 05-02 S. Kadioglu, M. Sussman, S. Osher, J. Wright, and M. Kang, A Second Order Primitive Preconditioner For Solving All Speed Multi-Phase Flows, accepted in Journal of Computational Physics