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Professor of Mathematics; Co-Director of the Applied Mathematics Laboratory
Ph.D. 1961 (aeronautics and mathematics), California Institute of Technology; M.S.E. 1958 (aeronautical engineering), B.S.E. 1956 (aeronautical engineering), Princeton.

Email:

Personal Homepage: http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/childres/index.html

Research Interests:

Fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, asymptotic methods.

Affiliations:

Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), American Physical Society, Sigma Xi.

Fellowships/Honors:

Golden Dozen Teaching Award, New York University, 1995; Royal Society Fellowship, 1989; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976.

Selected Works:

Stretch, Twist, Fold: The Fast Dynamo. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 37. Springer-Verlag. 1995.

Nearly two-dimensional solutions of Euler's equations. Physics of Fluids, 30. 1987. 944-963.

New solutions of the kinematic dynamo problem. J. Math. Physics, 11. 1970. 3063-3076.

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