Prof Russel Caflisch, professor at UCLA and director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, gives an overview of the programs at IPAM which launch new collaborations and make connections between a broad spectrum of mathematicians and scientists.
Prof Russ Caflisch studied mathematics at Michigan State and NYU’s Courant Institute of Math Sciences. He began his teaching career at Stanford University, then returned to NYU as an associate professor in 1984 before joining the mathematics faculty of UCLA in 1989. More recently, he was a founding member of California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). Prof Caflisch served on Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)’s Board of Trustees for several years and as an organizer of two IPAM long programs before he was recruited to be IPAM’s Director starting July 1, 2008. He was an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow and was an invited lecturer at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid. His research interests include materials science, mathematical finance, Monte Carlo methods, kinetic theory, plasma dynamics, fluid dynamics, and PDEs.
