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

Andrew Giuliani

Courant Instructor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Leslie Greengard

Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Director, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute

Geoffrey B. McFadden

NIST Fellow, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

Mike O'Neil

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

 

Georg Stadler

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

 

Florian Wechsung

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.