Vladimir Rokhlin, Jr.

Vladimir Rokhlin (* August 4, 1952 in Voronezh ) is an American mathematician of Russian origin, which deals with numerical analysis and partial differential equations.

Life

Rochlin is the son of the mathematician Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin. In 1973 he graduated from the University of Vilnius and worked from 1973 to 1976 at the Leningrad Institute of Arctic Geology. 1976 to 1985 he worked for Exxon in Houston, Texas. In 1983 he received his doctorate at Rice University, John Dennis (integral equations approach to scattering problems ). From 1985 he worked at Yale University, where he is a professor of mathematics and computer science today.

Rochlin succeeded with his Ph.D. student Leslie Greengard, the invention of the " Fast Multipole Method " ( FMM, and the Fast Multipole Algorithm), which allowed a considerable acceleration of the numerical solution of the Laplace equation and how many applications has in physics and engineering.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. In 2001 he received the Leroy P. Steele with Greengard Prize. In 1994 he was Invited Speaker ( Analysis based almost numerical algorithms of applied mathematics ) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.

Writings

  • A fast algorithm for particle simulations. In: Journal of computational physics, Bd.73 (1987 ), Issue 1, p.325 -348, ISSN 0021-9991 (along with Leslie Greengard; Abstract)
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