Michael Shelley (mathematician)

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Michael J. Shelley
Born (1959-08-17) August 17, 1959 (age 64)
Colorado, United States
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Arizona
University of Colorado
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Institutions Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Flatiron Institute

Michael J. Shelley (born August 17, 1959) is an American applied mathematician who works on the modeling and simulation of complex systems arising in physics and biology. This has included free-boundary problems in fluids and materials science, singularity formation in partial differential equations, modeling visual perception in the primary visual cortex, dynamics of complex and active fluids, cellular biophysics, and fluid-structure interaction problems such as the flapping of flags, stream-lining in nature, and flapping flight. He is also the co-founder and co-director of the Courant Institute's Applied Mathematics Lab. [1]

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Shelley was born in La Junta, Colorado. He holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Colorado (1981) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Arizona (1985). He was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, and then joined the faculty of mathematics at the University of Chicago. In 1992 he joined the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University where he is the George and Lilian Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics as well as Professor of Neuroscience (NYU) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (NYU-Tandon). In 2016 he also became a senior research scientist and group leader in biophysical modeling at the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) of the Flatiron Institute, a division of the Simons Foundation. In 2019 he was appointed Director of CCB.

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  1. Childress, Stephen; Shelley, Michael; Zhang, Jun (2012). "Fluid-Structure Interactions: Research in the Courant Institute's Applied Mathematics Laboratory". Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 65 (12): 1697–1721. doi:10.1002/cpa.21426.
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