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David Jerison

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David Jerison
David Jerison
Born
David Saul Jerison

14 November, 1953
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Professor, Researcher, Mathematician
Years active1981- present
Known for
Notable work
Awards

David Saul Jerison is an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an expert in partial differential equations and Fourier analysis.[1]

David Jerison did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University and received a bachelor's degree in 1975. He then received his PH.D. in 1980 from Princeton University with Elias M. Stein as his advisor, and after postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, he came to MIT in 1981.[1][2]

Awards and honors

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In 1985, he received an A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and a Presidential Young Investigator Award.[3] In 1994, Jerison was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.[4] In 1999, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5] He became a MacVicar Fellow in 2004.[1] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6] In 2012, he received, jointly with John M. Lee, the Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Faculty profile Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, MIT, retrieved 2012-02-21.
  2. ^ David Saul Jerison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITx+18.01.1x+2T2019/courseware/cyca/logistics-sequential/
  4. ^ Jerison, David. Eigenfunctions and harmonic functions in convex and concave domains. In: Srishti D. Chatterji (ed.): Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. August 3–11, 1994, Zürich, Switzerland. vol. 2. Basel etc., Birkhäuser 1995, ISBN 3-7643-5153-5, pp. 1108–1117.
  5. ^ "Mathematicians Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (PDF), Notices of the AMS: 911, September 1999.
  6. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-26.
  7. ^ Jackson, Allyn (April 2013). "Jerison and Lee Awarded 2012 Bergman Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 60 (4): 497–498.