Vladimir Rokhlin, Jr.

For other people named Vladimir Rokhlin, see Vladimir Rokhlin (disambiguation).

Vladimir Rokhlin (born August 4, 1952 in USSR) is mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at the Yale University. He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1987, recognised as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.

Short biography

Vladimir Rokhlin 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 the Rice University located in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1985 Rokhlin started working at the Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, where he is now professor of computer science and mathematics.

He is the son of Soviet mathematician Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin.

Awards and honors

Vladimir Rokhlin received several awards and honors, including:

• the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from the American Mathematical Society in 2001 (together with Leslie F. Greengard), for their paper describing a new algorithm: the fast multipole method (FMM)
• the "Rice University Distinguished Alumni Award" in 2001
• elected to member of both the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2008) and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1999)
• the IEEE Honorary Membership in 2006.
• elected to fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009
• the ICIAM Maxwell Prize from the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2011
• The William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics from the Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences in 2014

External links

• Vladimir Rokhlin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project