Steven Orszag

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American mathematician (1943–2011)

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::summary American mathematician (1943–2011) ::

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birth_nameSteven Alan Orszag
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birth_placeNew York, New York
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death_placeNew Haven, Connecticut
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known_forSpectral method
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occupationApplied mathematician, educator
thesis_titleTheory of Turbulence
thesis_year1966
doctoral_advisorMartin David Kruskal
spouseReba Karp (m. June 21, 1964)
childrenJ. Michael Orszag
Peter Richard Orszag
Jonathan Marc Orszag
parentsJoseph and Rose Orszag.
awardsA.P. Sloan Found. fellow, 1970–1974
Guggenheim fellow, 1989–1990
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Life and career

Orszag was born to a Jewish family in Manhattan, the son of Joseph Orszag, a lawyer. Orszag's paternal grandparents were emigrants from Hungary. He did post graduate study at Cambridge University and in 1966 graduated with a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Princeton University. In 1984, he was appointed Forrest E Hamrick Professor of Engineering at Princeton University. In 1998, he accepted a position at Yale University and in 2000, from 2000 until his death in 2011.

Orszag has won numerous awards including Sloan Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fluid and Plasmadynamics Award, the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society, and the Society of Engineering Science's G. I. Taylor Medal.

Orszag specialized in fluid dynamics, especially turbulence, computational physics and mathematics, electronic chip manufacturing, computer storage system design, and other topics in scientific computing. His work included the development of spectral methods, pseudo-spectral methods, direct numerical simulations, renormalization group methods for turbulence, and very-large-eddy simulations. He was the founder of and/or chief scientific adviser to a number of companies, including Flow Research, Ibrix (now part of HPQ), Vector Technologies, and Exa Corp. He has been awarded 6 patents and has written over 400 archival papers.

With Carl M. Bender he wrote Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory, a standard text on mathematical methods for scientists. Orszag has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.

Personal life

In 1964, he married Reba Karp (sister of Joel Karp, they had three sons: Michael, Peter, and Jonathan.

References

References

  1. [http://news.yale.edu/2011/05/02/memoriam-steven-alan-orszag Yale Bulletin: "In memoriam: Steven Alan Orszag" ] May 11, 2011
  2. [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Orszag.html University of St Andrews, Scotland - School of Mathematics and Statistics: "Steven Alan Orszag" by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson] October 2011
  3. Orszag was raised in [[Forest Hills, Queens]] and graduated from [[Forest Hills High School (New York)
  4. "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation O Fellows Page". Guggenheim Foundation.
  5. Billingham, John. (May 2000). "Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory". [[University of Leeds]] Department of Applied Mathematics.
  6. Goedbloed, J. P.. (2004). "Principles of magnetohydrodynamics". [[Cambridge University Press]].
  7. link. (2006-05-18)

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