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David Jerison received an A.B. from Harvard in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980 under the direction of Elias Stein. After a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago, he joined the mathematics faculty at MIT in 1981. He has served as Chair of the Undergraduate Mathematics Committee from 1988 to 1991, Chair of the Pure Mathematics Committee from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2009 to 2011, and co-Chair of the Graduate Student Committee from 2007 to 2009. His research focuses on Fourier analysis and partial differential equations, particularly in relation to elliptic free boundary problems. He is the principal investigator for the Simons Collaboration on Waves and Disorder, a cross-disciplinary study based on experiments with inorganic and organic semiconductors and Bose-Einstein condensates. Jerison is also well-known for his online lectures on calculus through MIT's OpenCourseWare and edX. He has received multiple awards including the Sloan Research Fellowship, the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. In 2004, he was selected as a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow. He was awarded the Bergman Prize in Complex Analysis in 2012, and he received the inaugural MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs in 2016. Jerison has also served as Vice President of the American Mathematical Society from 2017 to 2020, and received a Simons Fellowship in 2018 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Joined the mathematics faculty and engaged in research and teaching.