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:

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 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 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 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 Theodore Rappaport, founder of NYU Wireless, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors Peter Sarnak Jack Schwartz, developed the programming language SETL at NYU Michael J. Shelley, American Physical Society Fellow, François Naftali Frenkiel Award Victor Shoup, with Ronald Cramer developed the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem 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 , 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

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 Cathleen Morawetz (PhD 1950), National Medal of Science, Birkhoff Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMS, professor emeritus at Courant Institute Louis Nirenberg (PhD 1949), Crafoord Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science, Chern Medal Stanley Osher (PhD 1966), level set method, professor at University of California, Los Angeles George C. Papanicolaou (PhD 1969), professor at Stanford University Gary Robinson, software engineer noted for anti-spam algorithms 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 List of New York University people

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