Ever wondered whether fast direct solvers are compatible with Quadrature by Expansion, a method for the evaluation of singular layer potentials? Wonder no more 🙂 In https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13809, we offer an algorithmic recipe, analysis, an end-to-end error model, and some weighting tricks, the latter two applicable beyond QBX, along with numerical experiments. #layerpot #fastalg #fastalgorithm #numpde #numerics #scicomp #paper 🎓 📖