Russel E. Caflisch

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California ~Professor of Mathematics; Director, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. Works in applied mathematics on modeling, analysis, and simulation for applications in nanotechnology, materials science, fluid mechanics, and other fields, often developing new numerical methods and analysis of the mathematical properties of models from materials physics, including multiscale and stochastic methods. These include the strongest result on the analysis of the fluid dynamics limit of the Boltzman equation, analysis of existence and singularities for vortex sheets, a quasi-Monte Carlo method that is widely used in finance, a level set method for epitaxial growth, and a hybrid computational method for Coulomb collisions in a plasma combining particle and fluid descriptions. Editor-in-Chief of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation.~