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Leslie Greengard

Leslie Frederick Greengard (born 1957) is an American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist.^[2][3] 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.^[2][4]

Greengard was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for work on the development of algorithms and software for fast multipole methods.

Short biography[edit]

Leslie Frederick Greengard^[1] was born in 1957 in London, England,^[5] but grew up in the United StatesinNew 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).^[2][3]

From 2006 to 2011, Greengard was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an independent division of the New York University (NYU)^[3][6] 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^[7] and the director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis.^[8]

He formerly served as the Director at the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute. As of October 2018^[update], he has assumed the directorship of the new Center of Computational Mathematics at the Institute.^[9]

He is the son of neuroscientist Paul Greengard and the nephew of Irene Kane, later known as Chris Chase, an actress, writer, and journalist.^[10]

Awards and honors[edit]

• 2016, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[11]
• 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)^[12]
• 2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering^[13]
• 2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences^[14]
• 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^[15][16]
• 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)^[2]
• 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^[17]
• 1990, "Fellowship for Science and Engineering" from the Packard Foundation^[18][19]
• 1990, Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation^[20]
• 1987–1989, "Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship" from the National Science Foundation^[21]
• 1987, Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award, for his PhD. dissertation "The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems"^[22][23]
• 1987, "Doctoral Dissertation Award", Series Winner from the Association for Computing Machinery^[24]
• 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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External links[edit]

• Leslie Greengard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• "New York University - Leslie Greengard profile". nyu.edu. Retrieved March 11, 2011.