Nationality American Fields Mathematics | Name Robert Kohn | |
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Institutions Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Known for Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities Notable awards Sloan Fellow (1984)
ICM Plenary Lecturer (2006)
AMS Fellow (2012)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2014) Alma mater Harvard University, Princeton University | ||
Residence United States of America Doctoral advisor Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. | ||
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.
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Biography
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.
Work
Kohn is best known for his works on non-linear partial differential equations, specially the ones with Louis Nirenberg and Luis Caffarelli, where they obtained partial results about the regularity of weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations.
Honors
He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1984. In 2006, he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Madrid (Energy driven pattern formation). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.