Charles Epstein (mathematician)
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Charles Epstein is an analyst and applied mathematician. His research interests include partial differential equations, mathematical physics, boundary value problems, mathematical biology, population genetics, nuclear magnetic resonance and medical imaging, and numerical analysis; he has also worked in hyperbolic geometry, univalent function theory, several complex variables, microlocal analysis and index theory.
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Education and career
He was an undergraduate in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduate student at the Courant Institute, New York University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1983 under the direction of Peter Lax.
He was a postdoc with William Thurston before moving to the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since. Epstein won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1988.
He is currently a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute, New York City, and Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Books
- C L Epstein, Introduction to the mathematics of medical imaging. Second edition. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, PA, 2008. xxxiv+761 pp. ISBN 978-0-89871-642-9
- C L Epstein, The spectral theory of geometrically periodic hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (1985), No. 335, ix+161 pp.