James Sethian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James Sethian

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 10-May-1954

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

James Albert Sethian (born 10 May 1954) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the head of the Mathematics Group [1] at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received the Ph.D from Berkeley in 1982 under the direction of Alexandre Chorin.
Afterward he was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Courant Institute, under Peter Lax.
He returned to Berkeley in 1985 where he is now a full professor.
Sethian was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 as well as the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Sethian has acted as Interim Director Research at Thinking Machines Corporation, as well as held visiting positions at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.