David Jerison

David Jerison
David Jerison
Born	David Saul Jerison 14 November, 1953 Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Alma mater	Harvard University, (A.B.) Princeton University, (Ph.D.)
Years active	1981- present
Parent	Meyer Jerison
Awards	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Presidential Young Investigator Award Stefan Bergman Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Fourier analysis Partial differential equations
Doctoral advisor	Elias M. Stein

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]

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]

References

1. 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. "Calculus 1A: Differentiation".
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.