Henry Cohn
Henry Cohn at Oberwolfach, June 2014
Photo by Ivonne Vetter
Alma materMIT[1]
Harvard
Known forSphere packing
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMicrosoft Research
ThesisNew Bounds on Sphere Packings (2000)
Doctoral advisorNoam Elkies[2]
Websitehttps://cohn.mit.edu/

Henry Cohn is an American mathematician. He is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and an adjunct professor at MIT.[1] In collaboration with Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, Danylo Radchenko, and Maryna Viazovska, he solved the sphere packing problem in 24 dimensions.[3]

Cohn graduated from Harvard University in 2000 with a doctorate in mathematics.[4] Cohn was an Erdős Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008. In 2016, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to discrete mathematics, including applications to computer science and physics."[5]

In 2018, he was awarded the Levi L. Conant Prize for his article “A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing,” published in 2017 in the Notices of the AMS.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Henry Cohn". Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Henry Cohn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Klarreich, Erica (30 March 2016). "Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Henry Cohn | MIT Mathematics". Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-08-09
  6. ↑ "2018 Levi L. Conant Prize" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
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