Henry Cohn
Henry Cohn | |
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Henry Cohn at Oberwolfach, June 2014 Photo by Ivonne Vetter | |
| Alma mater | MIT Harvard |
| Known for | Sphere packing |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research |
| Thesis | New Bounds on Sphere Packings (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Noam Elkies |
| Website | https://cohn.mit.edu/ |
Henry Cohn is an American mathematician. He is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and an adjunct professor at MIT. Cohn graduated from Harvard University in 2000 with a doctorate in mathematics. 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."
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.