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Name
  
Leslie Greengard

Role
  
Mathematician


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Books
  
The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems

Education
  
Wesleyan University, Yale University

Academic advisor
  
Vladimir Rokhlin, Jr.

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

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Short biography

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Leslie Greengard was born in London, England, but grew up in the United States: in New York City, Boston, and New Haven. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Wesleyan University (1979), an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine (1987), and a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University (1987).

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Greengard has been the director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an independent division of the New York University (NYU) and is currently a professor of mathematics and computer science at Courant. He is also a professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis.

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Director at Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute.

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He is the son of Paul Greengard and the nephew of actress Irene Kane, later known as Chris Chase, a writer and journalist.

Awards and honors

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  • 2016, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014, Von Neumann Lecture, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • 2011, Wilbur Cross Medal
  • 2010, Plenary Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting
  • 2010, "National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship", from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
  • 2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
  • 2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
  • 2005, Plenary Speaker, 2nd National Congress on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (France)
  • 2004, "Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences" from the New York University
  • 2001, Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from the American Mathematical Society (together with Vladimir Rokhlin), for their paper describing a new algorithm: the fast multipole method (FMM)
  • 2000, Plenary Speaker, SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering
  • 1999, Plenary Speaker, International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • 1998, Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians
  • 1990, "Fellowship for Science and Engineering" from the Packard Foundation
  • 1990, Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation
  • 1987–1989, "Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship" from the National Science Foundation
  • 1987, Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award, for his PhD. dissertation "The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems"
  • 1987, "Doctoral Dissertation Award", Series Winner from the Association for Computing Machinery
  • 1987, Sandoz Thesis Award from the Yale School of Medicine
  • 1979–1986, Public Health Service – National Research Service Award Medical Scientist Training Program

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