Vladimir Rokhlin Jr.

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Vladimir Rokhlin Jr.
Born (1952-08-04) August 4, 1952 (age 71)
Alma mater University of Vilnius
Rice University
Known for Fast multipole method
AwardsMember, 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 [1] [2] and professor of computer science and mathematics at Yale University. [3] 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. [1] [4] [5]

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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.

Short biography

Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. was born on August 4, 1952, in Voronezh, USSR (now Russia). In 1973 he received a M.S. in mathematics from the University of Vilnius in Lithuania, and in 1983 a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rice University located in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1985 Rokhlin started working at Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, where he is now professor of computer science and mathematics. [1] [2]

He is the son of Soviet mathematician Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin. [6]

Awards and honors

Rokhlin has received several awards and honors, including:

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