Vladimir Rokhlin Jr.
Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. | |
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| Born | August 4, 1952 |
| Alma mater | University of Vilnius Rice University |
| Known for | Fast multipole method |
| Awards | Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1999) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2001) Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2008) Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009) ICIAM Maxwell Prize (2011) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Numerical computation |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Thesis | Integral Equations Approach to Scattering Problems (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | John E. Dennis |
| Doctoral students | Leslie Greengard |
Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. (born August 4, 1952) is a mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at Yale University. He is the co-inventor with Leslie Greengard of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1985, recognised as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.
In 2008, Rokhlin was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for the development of fast multipole algorithms and their application to electromagnetic and acoustic scattering.