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.Faculty profile , MIT, retrieved 2012-02-21.
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.
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.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, , pp. 1108–1117. 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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-26. In 2012, he received, jointly with John M. Lee, the Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.
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