Charles Epstein
Charles L. Epstein is a Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Research interests. Epstein is an analyst and applied mathematician. His interests include microlocal analysis and index theory; boundary value problems; nuclear magnetic resonance and medical imaging; and mathematical biology. Education and work. Epstein 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 did 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 Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics and serves as graduate chair of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science from 2008 to June 2019. Awards and honors. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to analysis, geometry, and applied mathematics including medical imaging, as well as for service to the profession".