David Jerison

David Jerison
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Born	David Saul Jerison 14 November, 1953 Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Alma mater	Harvard University, (A.B.) Princeton University, (Ph.D.)
Occupations	Professor, researcher, mathematician
Years active	1981- present
Known for	Fourier Analysis Partial differential equations
Notable work	Harnack's inequality Carleman's inequality Yamabe problem
Awards	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Presidential Young Investigator Award Stefan Bergman Prize

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. 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 with Elias M. Stein as his advisor, and after postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, he came to MIT in 1981.

Awards and honors

In 1985, he received an A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and a Presidential Young Investigator Award. In 1994, Jerison was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich. In 1999, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He became a MacVicar Fellow in 2004. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2012, he received, jointly with John M. Lee, the Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.