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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. A Lightweight, Geometrically Flexible Fast Algorithm for the Evaluation of Layer and Volume Potentials

    Publication
    Over the last two decades, several fast, robust, and high-order accurate methods have been developed for solving the Poisson equation in complicated geometry using potential theory. In …
  3. Space-time adaptive methods for parabolic evolution equations

    Publication
    We present a family of integral equation-based solvers for the heat equation, reaction-diffusion systems, the unsteady Stokes equation and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in two …
  4. 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 …
  5. Fast summation of Stokes potentials using a new kernel-splitting in the DMK framework

    Publication
    Classical Ewald methods for Coulomb and Stokes interactions rely on ``kernel-splitting," using decompositions based on Gaussians to divide the resulting potential into a near field and a …
  6. 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 …
  7. A Dual-space Multilevel Kernel-splitting Framework for Discrete and Continuous Convolution

    Publication
    … is calculated using asymptotic methods. We illustrate the performance of DMK for both continuous and discrete sources with extensive numerical examples in two and three dimensions.
  8. On the construction of scattering matrices for irregular or elongated enclosures using Green's representation formula

    Publication
    Multiple scattering methods are widely used to reduce the computational complexity of acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problems when waves propagate through media containing many identical inclusions. Historically, this …
  9. Coordinate complexification for the Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a perturbed half-space

    Publication
    We present a new complexification scheme based on the classical double layer potential for the solution of the Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in compactly perturbed half …
  10. A new version of the adaptive fast Gauss transform for discrete and continuous sources

    Publication
    We present a new version of the fast Gauss transform (FGT) for discrete and continuous sources. Classical Hermite expansions are avoided entirely, making use only of the plane …
  11. A fast method for imposing periodic boundary conditions on arbitrarily-shaped lattices in two dimensions

    Publication
    A new scheme is presented for imposing periodic boundary conditions on unit cells with arbitrary source distributions. We restrict our attention here to the Poisson, modified Helmholtz, Stokes …
  12. On the robustness of inverse scattering for penetrable, homogeneous objects with complicated boundary

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    The acoustic inverse obstacle scattering problem consists of determining the shape of a domain from measurements of the scattered far field due to some set of incident fields …
  13. 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 …
  14. Approximating the Gaussian as a Sum of Exponentials and Its Applications to the Fast Gauss Transform

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    We develop efficient and accurate sum-of-exponential (SOE) approximations for the Gaussian using rational approximation of the exponential function on the negative real axis. Six digit accuracy …
  15. An FMM Accelerated Poisson Solver for Complicated Geometries in the Plane using Function Extension

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    We describe a new, adaptive solver for the two-dimensional Poisson equation in complicated geometries. Using classical potential theory, we represent the solution as the sum of a …
  16. pmwd: A Differentiable Cosmological Particle-Mesh N-body Library

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    The formation of the large-scale structure, the evolution and distribution of galaxies, quasars, and dark matter on cosmological scales, requires numerical simulations. Differentiable simulations provide gradients of …
  17. Differentiable Cosmological Simulation with Adjoint Method

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    Rapid advances in deep learning have brought not only myriad powerful neural networks, but also breakthroughs that benefit established scientific research. In particular, automatic differentiation (AD) tools and …
  18. Forced and spontaneous symmetry breaking in cell polarization

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    How does breaking the symmetry of an equation alter the symmetry of its solutions? Here, we systematically examine how reducing underlying symmetries from spherical to axisymmetric influences the …
  19. Robust ab initio solution of the cryo-EM reconstruction problem at low resolution with small data sets

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    Single particle cryo-electron microscopy has become a critical tool in structural biology over the last decade, able to achieve atomic scale resolution in three dimensional models from …
  20. 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 …
  21. FMM-LU: A fast direct solver for multiscale boundary integral equations in three dimensions

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    We present a fast direct solver for boundary integral equations on complex surfaces in three dimensions using an extension of the recently introduced recursive strong skeletonization scheme. For …
  22. 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 …
  23. 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 …
  24. Fast multipole methods for evaluation of layer potentials with locally-corrected quadratures

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    While fast multipole methods (FMMs) are in widespread use for the rapid evaluation of potential fields governed by the Laplace, Helmholtz, Maxwell or Stokes equations, their coupling to …
  25. A fast spectral method for electrostatics in doubly-periodic slit channels

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    We develop a fast method for computing the electrostatic energy and forces for a collection of charges in doubly-periodic slabs with jumps in the dielectric permittivity at …
  26. 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 …
  27. High-order discretization of a stable time-domain integral equation for 3D acoustic scattering

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    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 …
  28. A fast boundary integral method for high-order multiscale mesh generation

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    In this work we present an algorithm to construct an infinitely differentiable smooth surface from an input consisting of a (rectilinear) triangulation of a surface of arbitrary shape …
  29. A fast solver for the narrow capture and narrow escape problems in the sphere

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    We present an efficient method to solve the narrow capture and narrow escape problems for the sphere. The narrow capture problem models the equilibrium behavior of a Brownian …
  30. A new mixed potential representation for the equations of unsteady, incompressible flow

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    We present a new integral representation for the unsteady, incompressible Stokes or Navier-Stokes equations, based on a linear combination of heat and harmonic potentials. For velocity boundary …
  31. Explicit unconditionally stable methods for the heat equation via potential theory

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    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 …
  32. Fast integral equation methods for linear and semilinear heat equations in moving domains

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    We present a family of integral equation-based solvers for the linear or semilinear heat equation in complicated moving (or stationary) geometries. This approach has significant advantages over …
  33. Transparent Boundary Conditions for the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation with a Vector Potential

    Publication
    We consider the problem of constructing transparent boundary conditions for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with a compactly supported binding potential and, if desired, a spatially uniform, time …
  34. Hybrid asymptotic/numerical methods for the evaluation of layer heat potentials in two dimensions

    Publication
    We present a hybrid asymptotic/numerical method for the accurate computation of single and double layer heat potentials in two dimensions. It has been shown in previous work …
  35. A fluctuating boundary integral method for Brownian suspensions

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    We present a fluctuating boundary integral method (FBIM) for overdamped Brownian Dynamics (BD) of two-dimensional periodic suspensions of rigid particles of complex shape immersed in a Stokes …
  36. High-Density, Long-Lasting, and Multi-region Electrophysiological Recordings Using Polymer Electrode Arrays

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    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 …
  37. On the accurate evaluation of unsteady Stokes layer potentials in moving two-dimensional geometries

    Publication
    Two fundamental difficulties are encountered in the numerical evaluation of time-dependent layer potentials. One is the quadratic cost of history dependence, which has been successfully addressed by …
  38. A new hybrid integral representation for frequency domain scattering in layered media

    Publication
    A variety of problems in acoustic and electromagnetic scattering require the evaluation of impedance or layered media Green's functions. Given a point source located in an unbounded …
  39. Integral equation methods for electrostatics, acoustics and electromagnetics in smoothly varying, anisotropic media

    Publication
    We present a collection of well-conditioned integral equation methods for the solution of electrostatic, acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problems involving anisotropic, inhomogeneous media. In the electromagnetic case …
  40. An adaptive fast Gauss transform in two dimensions

    Publication
    A variety of problems in computational physics and engineering require the convolution of the heat kernel (a Gaussian) with either discrete sources, densities supported on boundaries, or continuous …
  41. Decoupled field integral equations for electromagnetic scattering from homogeneous penetrable obstacles

    Publication
    We present a new method for the analysis of electromagnetic scattering from homogeneous penetrable bodies. Our approach is based on a reformulation of the governing Maxwell equations in …
  42. Robust integral formulations for electromagnetic scattering from three-dimensional cavities

    Publication
    Scattering from large, open cavity structures is of importance in a variety of href{https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/electromagnetism}{electromagnetic} applications. In this paper …
  43. 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 …
  44. 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 …
  45. High resolution inverse scattering in two dimensions using recursive linearization

    Publication
    We describe a fast, stable algorithm for the solution of the inverse acoustic scattering problem in two dimensions. Given full aperture far field measurements of the scattered field …
  46. An integral equation formulation for rigid bodies in Stokes flow in three dimensions

    Publication
    We present a new derivation of a boundary integral equation (BIE) for simulating the three-dimensional dynamics of arbitrarily-shaped rigid particles of genus zero immersed in a …
  47. A fast summation method for oscillatory lattice sums

    Publication
    We present a fast summation method for lattice sums of the type which arise when solving wave scattering problems with periodic boundary conditions. While there are a variety …
  48. Pseudo-Spectral Methods for the Laplace-Beltrami Equation and the Hodge Decomposition on Surfaces of Genus One

    Publication
    The inversion of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the computation of the Hodge decomposition of a tangential vector field on smooth surfaces arise as computational tasks in many …
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