News Release
VLADIMIR ROKHLIN WINS
AMS STEELE PRIZE
Michael Breen, or Annette Emerson, AMS Public Awareness Officers
Email: pa-office@ams.org
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January 11, 2001
PROVIDENCE, RIóVladimir Rokhlin, a mathematician at Yale University,
has won the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research.
Professor Rokhlin shares the prize with his collaborator Leslie Greengard
of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Presented by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one
of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded
today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.
Professor Rokhlin is being honored for his paper co-authored with Professor
Greengard and entitled "A fast algorithm for particle simulations" (Journal
of Computational Physics, volume 73, number 2, 1987). "This is
one of the most important papers in numerical analysis and scientific computing
in the last two decades," the prize citation states. The paper showed
how certain ideas could be combined "to produce an algorithm that would
make possible scientific and enegineering computations that would have
been impossible before."
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