David Jerison

Professor of Mathematics
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Analysis

David Jerison received the A.B. from Harvard in 1975, and the Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980 under the direction of Elias Stein. Following an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago, Professor Jerison joined the MIT mathematics faculty in 1981. His research is focussed on PDEs and Fourier analysis. He served as Chair of the Undergraduate Mathematics Committee, 1988-91, Chair of the Pure Mathematics Committee, 2002-04, and co-Chair of the Graduate Student Committee 2007-09. He is currently Chair of the Pure Mathematics Committee and directs SPUR, the mathematics department's summer undergraduate research program as well as the mathematics component of RSI (Research Science Institute) a summer science and engineering research program for high school students. A prior Sloan research fellow and Presidential Young Investigator, Professor Jerison was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1999. In 2004, he was selected for a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellowship for a ten-year period. In 2012, Jerison received the AMS Stefan Bergman Prize in Complex Analysis, with his collaborator Jack Lee, for "their pioneering works on the CR Yamabe problem, which lead to finding canonical metrics in a given conformal class, for strictly
pseudo-convex manifolds."

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