Education and Work
Charles Epstein was an undergraduate in mathematics at MIT and graduate student at the Courant Institute, NYU, where he received his PhD. He did a postdoc with William Thurston before moving to the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since. He is currently Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics and graduate chair of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science.
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