List of NYU Courant Institute people
Directors
- Richard Courant (1935–1958)
 - James J. Stoker (1958–1966)
 - Kurt O. Friedrichs (1966–1967)
 - Jürgen Moser (1967–1970)
 - Louis Nirenberg (1970–1972)
 - Peter Lax (1972–1980)
 - S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1980–1984)
 - Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1984–1988)
 - Henry McKean (1988–1994)
 - David W. McLaughlin (1994–2002)
 - Charles M. Newman (2002–2006)
 - Leslie Greengard (2006–2011)
 - Gerard Ben Arous (2011–present)
 
Notable Courant faculty
This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:[1]
- Gérard Ben Arous, Davidson Prize
 - Marsha Berger, NASA Software of the Year, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
 - Fedor Bogomolov
 - Richard Bonneau
 - Luis Caffarelli, Wolf Prize
 - Sylvain Cappell, Guggenheim Fellowship
 - Sourav Chatterjee, Davidson Prize
 - Jeff Cheeger, Veblen Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Max Planck Research Prize
 - Steven Childress, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Physical Society Fellow
 - Demetrios Christodoulou, 1993 MacArthur Fellow
 - Richard J. Cole, Guggenheim Fellowship
 - Martin Davis, Steele Prize
 - Percy Deift, George Pólya Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - Kurt O. Friedrichs, 1976 National Medal of Science
 - Paul Garabedian, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - Leslie Greengard, Steele Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF Presidential Young Investigator, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
 - Mikhail Gromov, 2009 Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, Steele Prize, Kyoto Prize, Balzan Prize,
 - Larry Guth
 - Helmut Hofer, Ostrowski Prize, National Academy of Sciences
 - Fritz John, 1984 MacArthur Fellow
 - Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
 - Michel Kervaire
 - Subhash Khot, 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award
 - Morris Kline
 - Peter Lax, Abel Prize winner, 1986 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
 - Lin Fanghua, Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - Wilhelm Magnus
 - Andrew Majda, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, John von Neumann Prize (SIAM)
 - Henry McKean, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - David W. McLaughlin, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - Bud Mishra, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
 - Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 1998 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Birkhoff Prize, Noether Lecturer, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - Jürgen Moser, Wolf Prize, James Craig Watson Medal
 - Assaf Naor, European Mathematical Society Prize, Packard Fellowship, Salem Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Blavatnik Award
 - Charles Newman, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - Louis Nirenberg, 1995 Crafoord Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Chern Medal, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - Laxmi Parida, IBM Master Inventor and ISCB Fellow
 - Charles S. Peskin, 1983 MacArthur Fellow, Birkhoff Prize, National Medal of Science
 - Amir Pnueli, National Academy of Engineering, Israel Prize, Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
 - Peter Sarnak
 - Jack Schwartz, developed the programming language SETL at NYU
 - Michael J. Shelley, American Physical Society Fellow, François Naftali Frenkiel Award (APS)
 - Victor Shoup, with Ronald Cramer developed the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem
 - Jonathan Sondow
 - Joel Spencer
 - K. R. Sreenivasan
 - S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize winner, Steele Prize, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Medal of Science
 - Daniel Stein, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 - Demetri Terzopoulos FRS FRSC, Guggenheim Fellow, IEEE and ACM Fellow, Academy Award for Technical Achievement, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
 - Akshay Venkatesh, Salem Prize, Packard Fellowship
 - Olof B. Widlund
 - Margaret H. Wright, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering
 - Lai-Sang Young, Satter Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Science
 - Theodore Rappaport, founder of NYU Wireless, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
 
Notable Courant alumni
This is a small selection of Courant's alumni:
- Anjelina Belakovskaia (Masters in Finance 2001), U.S. Women's Chess Champion
 - Anita Borg (PhD 1981), founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT)
 - Ivan Corwin (PhD 2011), professor at Columbia University
 - Charles Epstein (PhD 1983), hyperbolic geometry
 - Corwin Hansch (PhD 1944), statistics
 - Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
 - Barbara Keyfitz (PhD 1970), Director of the Fields Institute
 - Sergiu Klainerman (PhD 1978), Professor at Princeton
 - Morris Kline (PhD 1936), NYU professor (1938–1975)
 - David Korn (PhD 1969), creator of the KornShell
 - Martin Kruskal (PhD 1952), National Medal of Science, co-discoverer of solitons and the inverse scattering method for solving KdV
 - Peter Lax (PhD 1949), recipient of the Abel Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
 - Chen Li-an (PhD 1968), Taiwanese Minister of Defence
 - Louis Nirenberg (PhD 1949), Crafoord Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science, Chern Medal
 - Brian J. McCartin (PhD 1981), 2010 Chauvenet Prize
 - Cathleen Morawetz (PhD 1950), National Medal of Science, Birkhoff Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMS, professor emeritus at Courant Institute
 - Stanley Osher (PhD 1966), Level Set method, professor at University of California, Los Angeles
 - George C. Papanicolaou (PhD 1969), professor at Stanford University
 - Susan Mary Puglia (BA in Computer Science and Math), Vice President at IBM
 - Gary Robinson, software engineer noted for anti-spam algorithms[2][3]
 - Shmuel Weinberger (PhD 1982), topology and geometry; Professor at University of Chicago
 - Jacob Wolfowitz (PhD 1942)
 - Wojciech Zaremba (PhD 2016), co-founder of OpenAI
 
See also
References
- ^ "NYU > Courant Institute > About > Scientific Distinction". Cims.nyu.edu. September 1, 2005. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
 - ^ "Gary Robinson". Google. September 18, 2010. Retrieved September 18, 2010. 
I make the music recommendation technology at http://www.flyfi.com – ... Schools I've attended Bard College; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
{{cite web}}: External link in(help)|quote= - ^ Gary Robinson (March 1, 2003). "A Statistical Approach to the Spam Problem: Using Bayesian statistics to detect an e-mail's spamminess". Linux Journal. Retrieved September 18, 2010. 
This article discusses one of many possible mathematical foundations for a key aspect of spam filtering—generating ...