Charles L. Epstein

Charles Epstein is a senior research scientist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Mathematics and the Thomas A. Scott Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the founder and chair of the university’s Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science.

His current research interests include partial differential equations, mathematical physics, population genetics, imaging science and numerical analysis. He has also worked in hyperbolic geometry, univalent function theory, several complex variables, micro-local analysis, index theory, magnetic resonance imaging and image analysis.

He is a Sloan Foundation Fellow, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Mathematical Society, in addition to being a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was a co-recipient of the Stefan Bergman Prize in 2016. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in mathematics from New York University and an S.B. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.