Allen Knutson | |
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| Born | Allen Ivar Knutson |
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| Education | California Institute of Technology (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
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Allen Ivar Knutson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University. [1]
Knutson graduated from Stuyvesant High School and completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology [2] and received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 under the joint advisorship of Victor Guillemin and Lisa Jeffrey. [3]
He was on the faculty at the University of California,Berkeley before moving to the University of California,San Diego in 2005 and then to Cornell University in 2009. [4] In 2005,he and Terence Tao won the Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society for their paper "Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices". [5] He was an invited speaker at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians. [6]
Knutson is also known for his studies of the mathematics of juggling. [7] For five years beginning in 1990,he and fellow Caltech student David Morton held a world record for passing 12 balls. [2]
Knutson is the son of Donald Ivar Knutson,an American mathematician and financial executive at CBS. [8]
