Education
Knutson did his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1996 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the joint advisorship of Victor Guillemin and Lisa Jeffrey.
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Allen Knutson
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Career
He was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to the University of California, San Diego in 2005–2008 and then to Cornell University in 2009. Knutson is also known for his studies of the mathematics of juggling, and for five years beginning in 1990 he and fellow Caltech student David Morton held a world record for passing 12 balls.
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United States
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Levi L. Conant Prize
The Levi L. Conant Prize is a mathematics prize of the American Mathematical Society, which has been awarded since 2000 for outstanding expository papers published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society or the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in the past five years.The Levi L. Conant Prize is a mathematics prize of the American Mathematical Society, which has been awarded since 2000 for outstanding expository papers published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society or the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in the past five years.