Charles Peskin Receives 2003 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize

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January 16, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI---Charles Peskin of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, is receiving the 2003 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Birkhoff Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor Peskin is being honored for devoting much of his career to understanding the dynamics of the human heart. Blurring disciplinary boundaries, he has brought an extraordinarily broad range of expertise to bear on this problem: mathematical modeling, differential equations, numerical analysis, high performance computing, fluid dynamics, physiology, neuroscience, physics, and engineering.

Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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