| Bradley K. Alpert | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Computational science |
| Work Institution: | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Alma Mater: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S.), University of Chicago (S.M.), Yale University (Ph.D.) |
| Prizes: | Flemming Award, Bronze Medal of the U.S. Department of Commerce |
Bradley K. Alpert is a computational scientist at NIST. He is probably best known for co-developing fast spherical filters.[1] His fast spherical filters were (and remain) critical in the construction of the most efficient three-dimensional fast multipole methods (FMMs) for solving the Helmholtz equation and Maxwell's equations. Other well-known work of his includes contributions to computational methods for time-domain wave propagation,[2] [3] [4] quadratures for singular integrals,[5] [6] and multiwavelets.[7]
Alpert was awarded the 2006 Flemming Award for his work on spherical filters and his other contributions to scientific computing.[8] He was awarded a Bronze Medal from the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1997 for joint work on processing antenna measurements corrupted by errors in the positions of probes.[9]
Alpert received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1990, under the supervision of Vladimir Rokhlin. Alpert worked as a casualty actuary early in his career, and was a Hans Lewy postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and U.C. Berkeley.[10]