Robert V. Kohn (born in 1953) is an American mathematician working on partial differential equations, calculus of variations, mathematical materials science, and mathematical finance. He is a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.[1]

Robert V. Kohn
Born1953 (age 70–71)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Princeton University
Known forCaffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities
AwardsSloan Research Fellow (1984)
ICM Plenary Lecturer (2006)
AMS Fellow (2012)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Doctoral advisorFrederick J. Almgren Jr.
Doctoral students

Biography

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Kohn studied mathematics at Harvard University, obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1974. He obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1979, as a student of Frederick Almgren.[2][3]

Work

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Kohn is best known for his work on non-linear partial differential equations, including work with Louis Nirenberg and Luis Caffarelli in which they obtained partial results about the regularity of weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations.[4]

Honors

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He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1984.[5] In 2006, he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Madrid (Energy driven pattern formation).[6] He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7] He is an elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8]

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