Vladimir Rokhlin
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

M.S., Vilnius University, Lithuania, 1973
Ph.D., Rice University, 1983
Joined Yale Faculty 1985

Office Location: AKW 108
Telephone: 203.432.1278

Vladimir Rokhlin’s research interests include numerical scattering theory, elliptic partial differential equations, numerical solution of integral equations, quadrature formulae for singular functions, numerical linear algebra, and large-scale particle simulations.

Rokhlin is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research, and a recipient of the 2001 Rice University Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Representative Publications:
	"A Fast Adaptive Multipole Algorithms in Three Dimensions," with H. Cheng and L. Greengard, Journal of Computational Physics, 155:468-498, 1999.
	"Diagonal Forms of Translation Operators for the Helmholtz Equation in Three Dimensions," Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis 1:82-93, 1993.
	"On the Inverse Scattering Problem for the Helmholtz Equation in One Dimension," with Y. Chen, Inverse Problems, 8:365-391, 1992.