2007 Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker

Leslie Greengard, New York University

Title: The Nonuniform FFT and Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction

About the Speaker

Dr. Leslie Greengard received his B.A. in mathematics from Wesleyan University in 1979, his Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University in 1987, and his M.D. from Yale University in 1987. From 1987–89 he was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University in the Department of Computer Science. He is presently professor of mathematics and the Director of the Courant Institute of New York University. Much of his work has been in the development of “analysis-based” fast algorithms such as the Fast Multipole Method for gravitation and electromagnetics and the Fast Gauss Transform for diffusion. Among the many awards he received for his work is the 2001 Steele Prize in Mathematics.