American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects CCM’s Charles Epstein

Mathematician Charles Epstein of the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 22. He joins leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy and public affairs elected in recognition of their exceptional contributions to their fields and professions.

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 founded and chaired the university’s Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science.

Epstein’s research interests include partial differential equations, Maxwell’s equations, population genetics, imaging science and numerical analysis. He has also worked in hyperbolic geometry, univalent function theory, functions of several complex variables, microlocal analysis and index theory. In recent years, he has worked to develop theoretical foundations and effective numerical methods for solving scattering problems in open waveguides.

Epstein is a Sloan Foundation Fellow, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). In 2016, the AMS awarded the Stefan Bergman Prize to Epstein and François Trèves “for their profound contributions to complex analysis and geometry.”