Allen Ivar Knutson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University.Faculty profile, Cornell University, accessed 2021-06-08.
Education Knutson graduated from Stuyvesant High School and completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology and received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 under the joint advisorship of Victor Guillemin and Lisa Jeffrey.
Career 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.Department history , UCSD mathematics department, accessed 2012-06-20. 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".2005 Conant Prize, AMS, accessed 2012-06-20. He was an invited speaker at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians.Schubert calculus and quiver varieties half-hour YouTube lecture
Knutson is also known for his studies of the mathematics of juggling.The mathematics of juggling one-hour YouTube lecture For five years beginning in 1990, he and fellow Caltech student David Morton held a world record for passing 12 balls..
Personal life Knutson is the son of Donald Ivar Knutson, an American mathematician and financial executive at CBS.
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