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 randomized algorithms of numerical analysis, partial differential equations, scattering theory, numerical solution of integral equations, quadrature formulae for singular functions, approximation theory, harmonic analysis.

Rokhlin is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the National Academy of Engineering.
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 Algorithm for Particle Simulations," with L. Greengard, Journal of Computational Physics, 73(1) : 325 (1987).
	"Diagonal Forms of Translation Operators for the Helmholtz Equation in Three Dimensions," Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis 1:82-93, 1993.
	"Randomized Algorithms for the Low-Rank Approximation of Matrices," with E. Liberty, F. Woolfe, P.G. Martinsson, and M. Tygert, PNAS, V. 104, No. 51, pp. 20167-20172, 2007.