Allen Knutson
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]
Education
[edit]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]
Career
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ Faculty profile, Cornell University, accessed 2021-06-08.
- ^ a b Donahue, Bill (December 2004), "The Mathematics of . . . Juggling: An algebra whiz reveals the secrets of keeping a lot of balls in the air", Discover.
- ^ Allen Ivar Knutson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Department history Archived 2019-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, UCSD mathematics department, accessed 2012-06-20.
- ^ 2005 Conant Prize, AMS, accessed 2012-06-20.
- ^ Schubert calculus and quiver varieties half-hour YouTube lecture
- ^ The mathematics of juggling one-hour YouTube lecture
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Jugglers
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- University of California, San Diego faculty
- Cornell University faculty
- Scientists from California