Leslie Greengard

18.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
141 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Leslie Greengard is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leslie Greengard has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 71 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 23 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Leslie Greengard's work include Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (86 papers), Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods (64 papers) and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (16 papers). Leslie Greengard is often cited by papers focused on Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (86 papers), Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods (64 papers) and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (16 papers). Leslie Greengard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and South Korea. Leslie Greengard's co-authors include Vladimir Rokhlin, June‐Yub Lee, Hongwei Cheng, John Strain, Jean‐François Carrier, Jingfang Huang, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Shidong Jiang, Thomas Hagstrom and Alex H. Barnett and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Leslie Greengard

138 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

A fast algorithm for particle simulations 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 1988 1997 2004 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A fast algorithm for particle simulations
    1987 3.4k citations Leslie Greengard, Vladimir Rokhlin Journal of Computational Physics profile →
  2. The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems
    1988 790 citations Leslie Greengard profile →
  3. A new version of the Fast Multipole Method for the Laplace equation in three dimensions
    1997 582 citations Leslie Greengard, Vladimir Rokhlin profile →
  4. Accelerating the Nonuniform Fast Fourier Transform
    2004 511 citations Leslie Greengard et al. SIAM Review profile →

Peers

Leslie Greengard
Vladimir Rokhlin United States
Alan Jeffrey United Kingdom
I.M. RYZHIK United States
Björn Engquist United States
Per Christian Hansen Denmark
Joseph B. Keller United States
Ronald R. Coifman United States
Jacob White United States
Lloyd N. Trefethen United Kingdom
E. L. Hill United States
Vladimir Rokhlin United States
Leslie Greengard
Citations per year, relative to Leslie Greengard Leslie Greengard (= 1×) peers Vladimir Rokhlin

Countries citing papers authored by Leslie Greengard

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leslie Greengard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leslie Greengard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leslie Greengard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leslie Greengard based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Leslie Greengard. Leslie Greengard is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Greengard, Leslie, Shidong Jiang, Manas Rachh, & Jun Wang. (2024). A New Version of the Adaptive Fast Gauss Transform for Discrete and Continuous Sources. SIAM Review. 66(2). 287–315. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qi, Manas Rachh, Konstantin Weise, et al.. (2023). A fast direct solver for surface-based whole-head modeling of transcranial magnetic stimulation. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18657–18657. 8 indexed citations
3.
Greengard, Leslie, et al.. (2023). FMM-LU: A Fast Direct Solver for Multiscale Boundary Integral Equations in Three Dimensions. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. 21(4). 1570–1601. 4 indexed citations
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Barnett, Alex H., et al.. (2023). Eliminating Artificial Boundary Conditions in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Using Fourier Contour Deformation. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(5). 1409–1420. 2 indexed citations
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Rangan, Aaditya V. & Leslie Greengard. (2023). Robust ab initio solution of the cryo-EM reconstruction problem at low resolution with small data sets. Journal of Structural Biology. 215(3). 107994–107994.
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Miller, Pearson W., et al.. (2022). Forced and spontaneous symmetry breaking in cell polarization. Nature Computational Science. 2(8). 504–511. 10 indexed citations
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Epstein, Charles L., et al.. (2020). Geometry of the phase retrieval problem. Inverse Problems. 36(9). 94003–94003. 11 indexed citations
8.
Lai, Jun, Leslie Greengard, & Michael O’Neil. (2017). Robust integral formulations for electromagnetic scattering from three-dimensional cavities. Journal of Computational Physics. 345. 1–16. 10 indexed citations
9.
Chung, Jason E., Jeremy F. Magland, Alex H. Barnett, et al.. (2017). A Fully Automated Approach to Spike Sorting. Neuron. 95(6). 1381–1394.e6. 288 indexed citations
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Lai, Jun, Leslie Greengard, & Michael O’Neil. (2016). A new hybrid integral representation for frequency domain scattering in layered media. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 45(2). 359–378. 10 indexed citations
11.
Vico, Felipe, Miguel Ferrando‐Bataller, Leslie Greengard, & Zydrunas Gimbutas. (2016). The decoupled potential integral equation for time harmonic electromagnetic scattering. RiuNet (Politechnical University of Valencia). 44 indexed citations
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Gimbutas, Zydrunas, Leslie Greengard, & Srinivas Veerapaneni. (2015). Simple and efficient representations for the fundamental solutions of Stokes flow in a half-space. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations
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Gimbutas, Zydrunas & Leslie Greengard. (2015). Simple FMM libraries for electrostatics, slow viscous flow, and frequency-domain wave propagation. Communications in Computational Physics. 18(2). 2 indexed citations
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Ambikasaran, Sivaram, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Leslie Greengard, David W. Hogg, & Michael O’Neil. (2014). Fast Direct Methods for Gaussian Processes and the Analysis of NASA Kepler Mission Data. arXiv (Cornell University). 7 indexed citations
15.
Ilott, Andrew J., S. Chandrashekar, Andreas Klöckner, et al.. (2014). Visualizing skin effects in conductors with MRI: 7Li MRI experiments and calculations. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 245. 143–149. 56 indexed citations
16.
Epstein, Charles L., Leslie Greengard, & Michael O’Neil. (2012). Debye Sources and the Numerical Solution of the Time Harmonic Maxwell Equations II. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 66(5). 753–789. 41 indexed citations
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Greengard, Leslie, et al.. (2010). Spectral edge detection in two dimensions using wavefronts. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 30(1). 69–95. 4 indexed citations
18.
Greengard, Leslie, et al.. (2000). Spectral Approximation of the Free-Space Heat Kernel. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 9(1). 83–97. 53 indexed citations
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Greengard, Leslie & Vladimir Rokhlin. (1988). On the evaluation of electrostatic interactions in molecular modeling. 139–144. 16 indexed citations
20.
Greengard, Leslie & William Gropp. (1987). A Parallel Version of the Fast Multipole Method-Invited Talk. 213–222. 19 indexed citations

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