David Jerison
American mathematician
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David Saul Jerison is an American mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and Fourier analysis. He is currently a professor of mathematics and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
14 November, 1953
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| Born | David Saul Jerison 14 November, 1953 Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
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| Years active | 1981- present |
| Parent | Meyer Jerison |
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| Doctoral advisor | Elias M. Stein |
Education and career
The son of mathematician Meyer Jerison and Miriam Schwartz, 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 advised by Elias M. Stein. After postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, he joined MIT in 1981.[1][2]
Awards and honors
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]