David Jerison

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]

Jerison did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1975, and then went on to graduate studies at Princeton University. He earned a doctorate in 1980, 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

In 1999, Jerison was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] He became a MacVicar Fellow in 2004.[1] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] In 2012 he received, jointly with John M. Lee, the Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.[5]

References
  1. Faculty profile, MIT, retrieved 2012-02-21.
  2. David Saul Jerison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Mathematicians Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (PDF), Notices of the AMS: 911, September 1999.
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-26.
  5. Jackson, Allyn (April 2013). "Jerison and Lee Awarded 2012 Bergman Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 60 (4): 497–498.
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