People
Listed below are the members of the Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Division of the Department of Mathematics.
The Division Director is Russel Caflisch.
Faculty
Russel Caflisch
Professor of Mathematics, Director of the Courant Institute
Plasma kinetics, Monte Carlo simulation, hybrid simulation methods, flows in diodes
Harold Weitzner
Professor of Mathematics, former director of MFD Division
Fluid dynamics; differential equations
Research Staff
Norman Cao
Courant Instructor
Plasma physics, turbulence (wave, fluid, and plasma), zonal flows and pattern formation, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, magnetic confinement fusion, reduced modelling of turbulence, waves and instabilities in plasma and fluid systems, geophysical fluid dynamics
Silvia Espinosa
Post-doctoral associate
Plasma physics, fusion energy, transport, kinetic, neoclassical, MHD, impurity, pedestal, edge, tokamak, stellarator, numerical methods, high performance computing, computational fluid dynamics
PhD students
Frederick Law, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Evan Toler
Administration
Daisy Calderon-Mojar
Administrative Aide
Collaborators
Jeffrey P. Freidberg
Associate Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, M.I.T. and Korea Electric Power Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Courant Instructor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Director, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute
NIST Fellow, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
Lee Ricketson
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Post-doctoral associate, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Recent Alumni (2010 -- present)
Antoine Cerfon
Associate Professor of Mathematics - on leave from NYU (2022 - 2023), from director of the MFD division
Magnetohydrodynamics in fusion and astrophysical plasmas, nonneutral plasmas, numerical methods and uncertainty quantification for plasma physics
Eugenia Kim, Research Fellow, KIAS, Korea
Denis Silantyev, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Wrick Sengupta, Associate Research scholar, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
Dhairya Malhotra, Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute
Joshua Burby, Feynman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
George Hagstrom, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
Jungpyo Lee, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea
Lee Ricketson, Staff scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
In Memoriam
Eliezer Hameiri, a long time professor in the MFD division at the Courant Institute, sadly passed away in June 2016.