Leslie Greengard
Dr. Leslie F. Greengard is an American mathematician, physician and computer scientist.[1][2] He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1987, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.[1][3]
Short biography
Leslie Greengard was born in London, England, but grew up in the United States: in New York, 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).[1][2]
Greengard has been the director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an independent division of the New York University (NYU)[2][4] 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.[5] He is the director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis, too.[6]
He is the son of Paul Greengard and the nephew of actress Irene Kane, later known as Chris Chase, a writer and journalist.[7]
Awards and honors
- 2016, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[8]
- 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)[9]
- 2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering[10]
- 2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences[11]
- 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[12][13]
- 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)[1]
- 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[14][15]
- 1990, Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation[16]
- 1987–1989, "Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship" from the National Science Foundation[17]
- 1987, Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award, for his PhD. dissertation "The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems"[18][19]
- 1987, "Doctoral Dissertation Award", Series Winner from the Association for Computing Machinery[20]
- 1987, Sandoz Thesis Award from the Yale School of Medicine
- 1979–1986, Public Health Service – National Research Service Award Medical Scientist Training Program
References
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External links
- Leslie Greengard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Jewish American scientists
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- Living people
- Wesleyan University alumni
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
- People from New York City
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
