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The Fast Multipole Method
Student-Run Research SeminarSpeaker: | Sarah Williams, UC Davis |
Location: | 693 Kerr |
Start time: | Wed, Apr 14 2004, 12:10PM |
What's a multipole, and how can we make it fast? Named one of the top 10 most important algorithms of the last century, the FMM links discrete n-body problems to continuous Poisson problems, and may provide a completely robust method for solving the latter.