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Stanford University
Prof. Darve got his PhD in 1999 in the Jacques-Louis Lions laboratory in the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France. His PhD was in computational mathematics and numerical analysis (topic: fast multipole method for acoustics and electromagnetics; advisor: O. Pironneau). He was a postdoc from 1999 to 2001 at the NASA Ames Research Center in the astrobiology group. He has since joined the faculty at Stanford University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. His field of research is the fast multipole method, free energy computation methods for proteins, and programming scientific codes on streaming processors (graphics processing units, Cell).