List of NYU Courant Institute people

Directors

Richard Courant (1935–1958)
James J. Stoker (1958–1966)
Kurt O. Friedrichs (1966–1967)
Jürgen Moser (1967–1970)
Louis Nirenberg (1970–1972)
Peter Lax (1972–1980)
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1980–1984)
Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1984–1988)
Henry McKean (1988–1994)
David W. McLaughlin (1994–2002)
Charles M. Newman (2002–2006)
Leslie Greengard (2006–2011)
Gerard Ben Arous (2011–present)

Notable Courant faculty

This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:^[1]

Gérard Ben Arous, Davidson Prize
Marsha Berger, NASA Software of the Year, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
Fedor Bogomolov
Richard Bonneau
Luis Caffarelli, Wolf Prize
Sylvain Cappell, Guggenheim Fellowship
Sourav Chatterjee, Davidson Prize
Jeff Cheeger, Veblen Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Max Planck Research Prize
Steven Childress, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Physical Society Fellow
Demetrios Christodoulou, 1993 MacArthur Fellow
Richard J. Cole, Guggenheim Fellowship
Martin Davis, Steele Prize
Percy Deift, George Pólya Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
Kurt O. Friedrichs, 1976 National Medal of Science
Paul Garabedian, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
Leslie Greengard, Steele Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF Presidential Young Investigator, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
Mikhail Gromov, 2009 Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, Steele Prize, Kyoto Prize, Balzan Prize,
Larry Guth
Helmut Hofer, Ostrowski Prize, National Academy of Sciences
Fritz John, 1984 MacArthur Fellow
Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
Michel Kervaire
Subhash Khot, 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award
Morris Kline
Peter Lax, Abel Prize winner, 1986 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
Lin Fanghua, Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Academy of Arts and Science
Wilhelm Magnus
Andrew Majda, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, John von Neumann Prize (SIAM)
Henry McKean, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
David W. McLaughlin, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
Bud Mishra, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 1998 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Birkhoff Prize, Noether Lecturer, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
Jürgen Moser, Wolf Prize, James Craig Watson Medal
Assaf Naor, European Mathematical Society Prize, Packard Fellowship, Salem Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Blavatnik Award
Charles Newman, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
Louis Nirenberg, 1995 Crafoord Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Chern Medal, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
Laxmi Parida, IBM Master Inventor and ISCB Fellow
Charles S. Peskin, 1983 MacArthur Fellow, Birkhoff Prize, National Medal of Science
Amir Pnueli, National Academy of Engineering, Israel Prize, Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
Peter Sarnak
Jack Schwartz, developed the programming language SETL at NYU
Michael J. Shelley, American Physical Society Fellow, François Naftali Frenkiel Award (APS)
Victor Shoup, with Ronald Cramer developed the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem
Jonathan Sondow
Joel Spencer
K. R. Sreenivasan
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize winner, Steele Prize, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Medal of Science
Daniel Stein, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Demetri Terzopoulos , Guggenheim Fellow, IEEE and ACM Fellow, Academy Award for Technical Achievement, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
Akshay Venkatesh, Salem Prize, Packard Fellowship
Olof B. Widlund
Margaret H. Wright, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering
Lai-Sang Young, Satter Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Science
Theodore Rappaport, founder of NYU Wireless, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Notable Courant alumni

This is a small selection of Courant's alumni:

Anjelina Belakovskaia (Masters in Finance 2001), U.S. Women's Chess Champion
Anita Borg (PhD 1981), founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT)
Ivan Corwin (PhD 2011), professor at Columbia University
Charles Epstein (PhD 1983), hyperbolic geometry
Corwin Hansch (PhD 1944), statistics
Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
Barbara Keyfitz (PhD 1970), Director of the Fields Institute
Sergiu Klainerman (PhD 1978), Professor at Princeton
Morris Kline (PhD 1936), NYU professor (1938–1975)
David Korn (PhD 1969), creator of the KornShell
Martin Kruskal (PhD 1952), National Medal of Science, co-discoverer of solitons and the inverse scattering method for solving KdV
Peter Lax (PhD 1949), recipient of the Abel Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
Chen Li-an (PhD 1968), Taiwanese Minister of Defence
Louis Nirenberg (PhD 1949), Crafoord Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science, Chern Medal
Brian J. McCartin (PhD 1981), 2010 Chauvenet Prize
Cathleen Morawetz (PhD 1950), National Medal of Science, Birkhoff Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMS, professor emeritus at Courant Institute
Stanley Osher (PhD 1966), Level Set method, professor at University of California, Los Angeles
George C. Papanicolaou (PhD 1969), professor at Stanford University
Susan Mary Puglia (BA in Computer Science and Math), Vice President at IBM
Gary Robinson, software engineer noted for anti-spam algorithms^[2]^[3]
Shmuel Weinberger (PhD 1982), topology and geometry; Professor at University of Chicago
Jacob Wolfowitz (PhD 1942)
Wojciech Zaremba (PhD 2016), co-founder of OpenAI

References

^ "NYU > Courant Institute > About > Scientific Distinction". Cims.nyu.edu. 2005-09-01. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
^ "Gary Robinson". Google. 2010-09-18. Retrieved 2010-09-18. I make the music recommendation technology at http://www.flyfi.com – ... Schools I've attended Bard College; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences {{cite web}}: External link in |quote= (help)
^ Gary Robinson (Mar 1, 2003). "A Statistical Approach to the Spam Problem: Using Bayesian statistics to detect an e-mail's spamminess". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2010-09-18. This article discusses one of many possible mathematical foundations for a key aspect of spam filtering—generating ...

[1] "NYU > Courant Institute > About > Scientific Distinction". Cims.nyu.edu. 2005-09-01. Retrieved 2011-08-06.

[twsSepaxxf-2] "Gary Robinson". Google. 2010-09-18. Retrieved 2010-09-18. I make the music recommendation technology at http://www.flyfi.com – ... Schools I've attended Bard College; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences {{cite web}}: External link in |quote= (help)

[twsSepb-3] Gary Robinson (Mar 1, 2003). "A Statistical Approach to the Spam Problem: Using Bayesian statistics to detect an e-mail's spamminess". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2010-09-18. This article discusses one of many possible mathematical foundations for a key aspect of spam filtering—generating ...

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List of NYU Courant Institute people

Contents

Directors

Notable Courant faculty

Notable Courant alumni

See also

References