Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. (born August 4, 1952) is a mathematician and professor of computer science and

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at Yale University. He is the co-inventor with

Leslie Greengard Dr. Leslie F. Greengard is an American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist. He is co-inventor with Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1987, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century. Gree ...

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.

Short biography

Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. was born on August 4, 1952 in Voronezh, USSR (now Russia). In 1973 he received a M.S. in

from the University of Vilnius in

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, 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

. He is the son of Soviet mathematician Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin.

Awards and honors

Rokhlin has received several awards and honors, including: * the

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from the American Mathematical Society in 2001 (together with

Leslie F. Greengard Dr. Leslie F. Greengard is an American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist. He is co-inventor with Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1987, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century. Gree ...

), for their paper describing a new algorithm: the fast multipole method (FMM) * the " Rice University Distinguished Alumni Award" in 2001 * elected a member of both the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2008) and the

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(1999) * the

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in 2006. * elected to fellow of the

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in 2009 * the ICIAM Maxwell Prize from the

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in 2011 * The William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics from the Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences in 2014 * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016

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