ALEXANDER CHORIN

Alexandre Chorin has long been fascinated by the mathematics of disorder. He has spent much of his distinguished career developing probabilistic techniques that can solve the complexities of turbulent flow and other phenomena in fluid mechanics. One of the most succesful of these techniques is the "random vortex method" which provides impressionistic pictures of natural processes that approximate their actual physical behavior. As Chorin once said, "Sometimes a Monet can capture nature more accurately than a photograph."