Professor of Mathematics & Director of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles Director of Special Projects, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Office: Math Sciences 7617F Phone: 51758 Email: sjo@math.ucla.edu Publications - Google Scholar Curriculum Vitae

• Plenary speaker, International Conference of Mathematicians, 2010
• Honorary Doctoral Degree, Hong Kong Baptist Unversity, 2009
• Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
• Fellow of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009
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• Elected as recipient of 2007 USACM Computational and Applied Sciences Award
• Awarded Docteur Honoris Causa from ENS Cachan, France. Read more: honor.html
• Elected to the National Acade my of Sciences NAS this spring (view the Celebration!)
• 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.
• Special Issue in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Stanley Osher, Journal of Scientific Computing, December 2003, Volume 19, Issue 1-3.
• Special Issue Methods and Applications of Analysis, v10, #3, June, 2003, dedicated to Professor Stanley Osher on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
• Awarded 2003 ICIAM Pioneer Prize. SIAM Listing of ICIAM prize winners.
• Shock capturing, level sets, and PDE based methods in computer vision and image processing: a review of Osher's contributions
  Ronald P. Fedkiw, Guillermo Sapiro, and Chi-Wang Shu, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 185, Issue 2, 1 March 2003, Pages 309 - 341. View the complete article online: doi:10.1016/S0021-9991(02)00016-5.
• Exploring new directions in scientific computing: Details on the recent four day conference in Hong Kong honoring Stanley Osher.
• Dynamic Visibility and the Level Set Method, SIAM News, Volume 35, Number 4, May 2002.
• Stanley Osher received the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 2002 Computational Mechanics Award
  "For his long-time contributions to research and service in computational mechanics."
• AFOSR Funded Scientist Wins Pioneer Prize
• Journal of Computational Physics, Top Cited Article
• Books
  
  • 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.
  • Recent Advances in Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations,
    in honor of Stan Osher's 60th Birthday, Edited by S.Y. Cheng, Chi-Wang Shu, and T. Tang, AMS
• International Conference on Scientific Computing,
  Partial Differential Equations and Image Processing
  On the Occasion of Stanley Osher's 60th birthday.
  • Osher Fest at UCLA - April 5-7, 2002
  • Osher Fest at Hong Kong - December 12-15, 2002
    Lam Woo Conference Center, Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong
• Articles in the 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 Edge
    This Science News article explores the level-set approach for modeling complex behavior at interfaces. (April 1999)
  • 1999 Innovators
    Article 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)
• Interview
  • Interview with Stanley Osher at National University of Singapore

Education

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

Honors

• 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

Research Interests

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

Recent Publications

Math Links

• Image Processing Website (Imagers)
• Materials Research in Applied Math
• Image Processing Seminars: Description | Schedule
• Level-Set Systems, Inc.
• UCLA Department of Mathematics