caption doctoral_advisor birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date known_for doctoral_students image article_title name
osher in 1968 jacob schwartz brooklyn , new york , usa american applied mathematics ucla , suny , stony brook , uc berkeley 24 april 1942 level 1 / tv methods set method shock capturing methods image processing l -lsb- http://math.arizona.edu/~brio/ moysey brio -rsb- stanley osher.jpg stanley osher
 stanley joel osher
stanley osher

stanley osher -lrb- born april 24 , 1942 -rrb- is an american mathematician , known for his many contributions in shock capturing , level set methods , and pde-based methods in computer vision and image processing .
osher is a professor at the university of california , los angeles -lrb- ucla -rrb- , director of special projects in the institute for pure and applied mathematics -lrb- ipam -rrb- and member of the california nanosystems institute -lrb- cnsi -rrb- at ucla .
he has a daughter , kathryn , and a son , joel .
