Allen Knutson
{{short description|American mathematician}}
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Allen Ivar Knutson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University.[https://math.cornell.edu/allen-knutson Faculty profile], Cornell University, accessed 2021-06-08.
Education
Knutson graduated from Stuyvesant High School and completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology and received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 under the joint advisorship of Victor Guillemin and Lisa Jeffrey.{{mathgenealogy|name=Allen Ivar Knutson|id=37047}}
Career
He was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to the University of California, San Diego in 2005 and then to Cornell University in 2009.[http://math.ucsd.edu/about/department-history/ Department history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609032341/http://www.math.ucsd.edu/about/department-history/ |date=2019-06-09 }}, UCSD mathematics department, accessed 2012-06-20. In 2005, he and Terence Tao won the Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society for their paper "Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices".[https://www.ams.org/notices/200504/comm-conant.pdf 2005 Conant Prize], AMS, accessed 2012-06-20. He was an invited speaker at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsnL0SWDNsI Schubert calculus and quiver varieties] half-hour YouTube lecture
Knutson is also known for his studies of the mathematics of juggling.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38rf9FLhl-8 The mathematics of juggling] one-hour YouTube lecture For five years beginning in 1990, he and fellow Caltech student David Morton held a world record for passing 12 balls.{{citation|title=The Mathematics of . . . Juggling: An algebra whiz reveals the secrets of keeping a lot of balls in the air|journal=Discover|url=http://discovermagazine.com/2004/dec/mathematics-of-juggling|date=December 2004|first=Bill|last=Donahue}}.
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