Henry Cohn

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]

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/

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. "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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