Dr. Leslie Greengard

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Leslie Greengard is the Silver Professor at the Department of Mathematics at New York University. He focuses on developing integral equation methods in several applied areas such as electromagnetics, acoustics, elasticity, plasma physics, and fluid dynamics. His research group is actively involved in creating fast solvers for applications in complex geometry and extending analysis-based fast solvers with kernel-based methods and statistical inference. Greengard is associated with the Courant Mathematics Computing Laboratory, where he explores novel methods for electromagnetic simulation design. He earned his Ph.D. and M.D. from Yale University in 1987 and holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Wesleyan University, obtained in 1979.

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