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  1. A fast algorithm for the wave equation using time-windowed Fourier projection

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    We introduce a new arbitrarily high-order method for the rapid evaluation of hyperbolic potentials (space-time integrals involving the Green’s function for the scalar wave equation …
  2. Stabilizing the singularity swap quadrature for near-singular line integrals

    Publication
    Singularity swap quadrature (SSQ) is an effective method for the evaluation at nearby targets of potentials due to densities on curves in three dimensions. While highly accurate in …
  3. Truncated kernel windowed Fourier projection: a fast algorithm for the 3D free-space wave equation

    Publication
    We present a spectrally accurate fast algorithm for evaluating the solution to the scalar wave equation in free space driven by a large collection of point sources in …
  4. A Method of Fundamental Solutions for Large-Scale 3D Elastance and Mobility Problems

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    The method of fundamental solutions (MFS) is known to be effective for solving 3D Laplace and Stokes Dirichlet boundary value problems in the exterior of a large collection …
  5. Self-reorganization and Information Transfer in Massive Schools of Fish

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    The remarkable cohesion and coordination observed in moving animal groups and their collective responsiveness to threats are thought to be mediated by scale-free correlations, where changes in …
  6. High-order and adaptive optical conductivity calculations using Wannier interpolation

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    We present an automatic, high-order accurate, and adaptive Brillouin zone integration algorithm for the calculation of the optical conductivity with a non-zero but small broadening factor …
  7. Accelerating Fast Ewald Summation with Prolates for Molecular Dynamics Simulations

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    Fast Ewald summation is the most widely used approach for computing long-range Coulomb interactions in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. While the asymptotic scaling is nearly optimal, its …
  8. Superfast Direct Inversion of the Nonuniform Discrete Fourier Transform via Hierarchically Semiseparable Least Squares

    Publication
    A direct solver is introduced for solving overdetermined linear systems involving nonuniform discrete Fourier transform matrices. Such matrices can be transformed into a Cauchy-like form that has …
  9. Accurate close interactions of Stokes spheres using lubrication-adapted image systems

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    Stokes flows with near-touching rigid particles induce near-singular lubrication forces under relative motion, making their accurate numerical treatment challenging. With the aim of controlling the accuracy …
  10. A fully adaptive, high-order, fast Poisson solver for complex two-dimensional geometries

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    We present a new framework for the fast solution of inhomogeneous elliptic boundary value problems in domains with smooth boundaries. High-order solvers based on adaptive box codes …
  11. Equispaced Fourier representations for efficient Gaussian process regression from a billion data points

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    We introduce a Fourier-based fast algorithm for Gaussian process regression in low dimensions. It approximates a translationally invariant covariance kernel by complex exponentials on an equispaced Cartesian …
  12. Trapped acoustic waves and raindrops: high-order accurate integral equation method for localized excitation of a periodic staircase

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    We present a high-order boundary integral equation (BIE) method for the frequency-domain acoustic scattering of a point source by a singly-periodic, infinite, corrugated boundary. We …
  13. An adaptive spectral method for oscillatory second-order linear ODEs with frequency-independent cost

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    We introduce an efficient numerical method for second-order linear ODEs whose solution may vary between highly oscillatory and slowly changing over the solution interval. In oscillatory regions …
  14. nifty-ls: Fast and Accurate Lomb–Scargle Periodograms Using a Non-uniform FFT

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    We present nifty-ls, a software package for fast and accurate evaluation of the Lomb–Scargle periodogram. nifty-ls leverages the fact that Lomb–Scargle can be computed …
  15. Delayed rejection Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for sampling multiscale distributions

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    The efficiency of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) can suffer when sampling a distribution with a wide range of length scales, because the small step sizes needed for stability …
  16. Efficient convergent boundary integral methods for slender bodies

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    The interaction of fibers in a viscous (Stokes) fluid plays a crucial role in industrial and biological processes, such as sedimentation, rheology, transport, cell division, and locomotion. Numerical …
  17. Uniform approximation of common Gaussian process kernels using equispaced Fourier grids

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    The high efficiency of a recently proposed method for computing with Gaussian processes relies on expanding a (translationally invariant) covariance kernel into complex exponentials, with frequencies lying on …
  18. Automatic, high-order, and adaptive algorithms for Brillouin zone integration

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    We present efficient methods for Brillouin zone integration with a non-zero but possibly very small broadening factor η, focusing on cases in which downfolded Hamiltonians can be …
  19. riccati: an adaptive, spectral solver for oscillatory ODEs

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  20. Ensemble Reweighting Using Cryo-EM Particle Images

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    Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently become a leading method for obtaining high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. However, cryo-EM is limited to biomolecular samples with …
  21. Ensemble reweighting using Cryo-EM particles

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    Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently become a leading method for obtaining high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. However, cryo-EM is limited to biomolecular samples with …
  22. Eliminating Artificial Boundary Conditions in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Using Fourier Contour Deformation

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    We present an efficient method for propagating the time-dependent Kohn–Sham equations in free space, based on the recently introduced Fourier contour deformation (FCD) approach. For potentials …
  23. Quadrature by fundamental solutions: kernel-independent layer potential evaluation for large collections of simple objects

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    Well-conditioned boundary integral methods for the solution of elliptic boundary value problems (BVPs) are powerful tools for static and dynamic physical simulations. When there are many close …
  24. A high-order integral equation-based solver for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation

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    We introduce a numerical method for the solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with a smooth potential, based on its reformulation as a Volterra integral equation. We …
  25. Geometry of the Phase Retrieval Problem: Graveyard of Algorithms

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    Recovering the phase of the Fourier transform is a ubiquitous problem in imaging applications from astronomy to nanoscale X-ray diffraction imaging. Despite the efforts of a multitude …
  26. Automatic, high-order, and adaptive algorithms for Brillouin zone integration

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  27. How exponentially ill-conditioned are contiguous submatrices of the Fourier matrix?

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    Linear systems involving contiguous submatrices of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT)matrix arise in many applications, such as Fourier extension, superresolution, and coherent diffraction imaging. We show that …
  28. Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition

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    mathematical illustrations by Alex H. Barnett: In Discriminating Data, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning …
  29. A Bayesian approach for extracting free energy profiles from cryo-electron microscopy experiments using a path collective variable

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    Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) extracts single-particle density projections of individual biomolecules. Although cryo-EM is widely used for 3D reconstruction, due to its single-particle nature …
  30. cuFINUFFT: a load-balanced GPU library for general-purpose nonuniform FFTs

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    Nonuniform fast Fourier transforms dominate the computational cost in many applications including image reconstruction and signal processing. We thus present a general-purpose GPU-based CUDA library for …
  31. Recovering missing data in coherent diffraction imaging

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    In coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) experiments, the intensity of the scattered wave impinging on an object is measured on an array of detectors. This signal can be interpreted …
  32. Aliasing error of the exp \(β\sqrt{1-z^2}\) kernel in the nonuniform fast Fourier transform

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    The most popular algorithm for the nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) uses the dilation of a kernel \(phi\) to spread (or interpolate) between given nonuniform points and a …
  33. Efficient high-order accurate Fresnel diffraction via areal quadrature and the nonuniform FFT

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    We present a fast algorithm for computing the diffracted field from arbitrary binary (sharp-edged) planar apertures and occulters in the scalar Fresnel approximation, for up to moderately …
  34. An integral equation method for the simulation of doubly-periodic suspensions of rigid bodies in a shearing viscous flow

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    With rheology applications in mind, we present a fast solver for the time-dependent effective viscosity of an infinite lattice containing one or more neutrally buoyant smooth rigid …
  35. Geometry of the Phase Retrieval Problem

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    One of the most powerful approaches to imaging at the nanometer or subnanometer length scale is coherent diffraction imaging using X-ray sources. For amorphous (non-crystalline) samples …
  36. Accurate quadrature of nearly singular line integrals in two and three dimensions by singularity swapping

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    The method of Helsing and co-workers evaluates Laplace and related layer potentials generated by a panel (composite) quadrature on a curve, efficiently and with high-order accuracy …
  37. Solution of Stokes flow in complex nonsmooth 2D geometries via a linear-scaling high-order adaptive integral equation scheme

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    We present a fast, high-order accurate and adaptive boundary integral scheme for solving the Stokes equations in complex---possibly nonsmooth---geometries in two dimensions. The key ingredient …
  38. SpikeForest, reproducible web-facing ground-truth validation of automated neural spike sorters

    Publication
    Spike sorting is a crucial step in electrophysiological studies of neuronal activity. While many spike sorting packages are available, there is little consensus about which are most accurate …
  39. High-order discretization of a stable time-domain integral equation for 3D acoustic scattering

    Publication
    We develop a high-order, explicit method for acoustic scattering in three space dimensions based on a combined-field time-domain integral equation. The spatial discretization, of Nyström …
  40. Factorization of the translation kernel for fast rigid image alignment

    Publication
    An important component of many image alignment methods is the calculation of inner products (correlations) between an image of \(ntimes n\) pixels and another image translated by some …
  41. Explicit unconditionally stable methods for the heat equation via potential theory

    Publication
    We study the stability properties of explicit marching schemes for second-kind Volterra integral equations that arise when solving boundary value problems for the heat equation by means …
  42. A Parallel Nonuniform Fast Fourier Transform Library Based on an “Exponential of Semicircle" Kernel

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    The nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) generalizes the FFT to off-grid data. Its many applications include image reconstruction, data analysis, and the numerical solution of differential equations …
  43. High-Density, Long-Lasting, and Multi-region Electrophysiological Recordings Using Polymer Electrode Arrays

    Publication
    The brain is a massive neuronal network, organized into anatomically distributed sub-circuits, with functionally relevant activity occurring at timescales ranging from milliseconds to years. Current methods to …
  44. High-Density, Long-Lasting, and Multi-region Electrophysiological Recordings Using Polymer Electrode Arrays

    Publication
    The brain is a massive neuronal network, organized into anatomically distributed sub-circuits, with functionally relevant activity occurring at timescales ranging from milliseconds to years. Current methods to …
  45. Comparable upper and lower bounds for boundary values of Neumann eigenfunctions and tight inclusion of eigenvalues

    Publication
    For smooth bounded domains in ℝn, we prove upper and lower L2 bounds on the boundary data of Neumann eigenfunctions, and we prove quasiorthogonality of this boundary data …
  46. A unified integral equation scheme for doubly-periodic Laplace and Stokes boundary value problems in two dimensions

    Publication
    We present a spectrally-accurate scheme to turn a boundary integral formulation for an elliptic PDE on a single unit cell geometry into one for the fully periodic …
  47. A Fully Automated Approach to Spike Sorting

    Publication
    Understanding the detailed dynamics of neuronal networks will require the simultaneous measurement of spike trains from hundreds of neurons (or more). Currently, approaches to extracting spike times and …
  48. Rapid solution of the cryo-EM reconstruction problem by frequency marching

    Publication
    Determining the three-dimensional (3D) structure of proteins and protein complexes at atomic resolution is a fundamental task in structural biology. Over the last decade, remarkable progress has …
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