Charles Samuel Peskin (born April 15, 1946) is an Americanmathematician known for his work in the mathematical modeling of blood flow in the heart. Such calculations are useful in the design ofartificial heart valves. From this work has emerged an original computational method forfluid-structure interaction that is now called the “immersed boundary method", which allows the coupling between deformable immersed structures and fluid flows to be handled in a computationally tractable way. With his students and colleagues, Peskin also has worked on mathematical models of such systems as theinner ear, arterial pulse,blood clotting,congenital heart disease, light adaptation in theretina, control ofovulation number, control ofplasmid replication,molecular dynamics, andmolecular motors.[1]
Peskin received an A.B. (1968) fromHarvard University and a Ph.D. (1972) from theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine,Yeshiva University and shortly thereafter joined the faculty of theCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,New York University. He has been a productive educator of applied mathematicians, and has advised more than fifty graduate students as of 2014. Peskin is aMacArthur Fellow and a member of theNational Academy of Sciences, theInstitute of Medicine and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1969 he married Lucille G. Bisesi. Their son Eric is the manager of High Performance Computing at New York University.[2]
He has also been a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994,[6] a member of theNational Academy of Sciences since 1995,[7] and a member of theInstitute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) since 2000.[8] He is also an inaugural fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society[9] and theSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[10]
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