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D-Index
37
Citations
5923
World Ranking
2495
National Ranking
1040

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society For contributions to discrete mathematics, including applications to computer science and physics.

Overview

Henry Cohn is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on mathematics, with a significant emphasis on numerical analysis, applied mathematics, statistics and probability, computer vision and pattern recognition, and computer graphics and computer-aided design.

The scientist's work covers several topics, including mathematical approximation and integration, advanced optimization algorithms research, mathematical functions and polynomials, Markov chains and Monte Carlo methods, digital image processing techniques, computational geometry and mesh generation, and optimization and packing problems.

Henry Cohn has published extensively, with frequent contributions to venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Notices of the American Mathematical Society
  • Annals of Mathematics
  • The Annals of Statistics
  • Mathematics of Computation

Among recent papers authored by Henry Cohn are:

  • Universal optimality of the $E_8$ and Leech lattices and interpolation formulas, 2022, Annals of Mathematics
  • Three-point bounds for sphere packing, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Dual linear programming bounds for sphere packing via modular forms, 2021, Mathematics of Computation

Other notable papers connected to their frequent co-authors include contributions to The Annals of Statistics and arXiv.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Henry Cohn multiple times include:

  • David de Laat
  • Andrew Salmon
  • Jonah Blasiak
  • Joshua A. Grochow
  • Kevin Pratt

In 2015, Henry Cohn was recognized as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, for contributions to discrete mathematics and its applications to computer science and physics.

Best Publications

  • Universally optimal distribution of points on spheres

    Henry Cohn;Abhinav Kumar;Abhinav Kumar

  • Local statistics for random domino tilings of the Aztec diamond

    Henry Cohn;Noam Elkies;James Propp

  • New upper bounds on sphere packings I

    Henry Cohn;Noam Elkies

  • The sphere packing problem in dimension 24

    Henry Cohn;Abhinav Kumar;Stephen D. Miller;Danylo Radchenko

  • A variational principle for domino tilings

    Henry Cohn;Henry Cohn;Richard Kenyon;James Propp

  • The Shape of a Typical Boxed Plane Partition

    Henry Cohn;Michael Larsen;James Propp

  • Free partition functions and an averaged holographic duality

    Nima Afkhami-Jeddi;Henry Cohn;Thomas Hartman;Amirhossein Tajdini

  • Group-theoretic algorithms for matrix multiplication

    H. Cohn;R. Kleinberg;B. Szegedy;C. Umans

  • An $L^p$ theory of sparse graph convergence I: limits, sparse random graph models, and power law distributions

    Christian Borgs;Jennifer T. Chayes;Henry Cohn;Yufei Zhao

  • Optimality and uniqueness of the Leech lattice among lattices

    Henry Cohn;Abhinav Kumar

  • A group-theoretic approach to fast matrix multiplication

    H. Cohn;C. Umans

  • A conceptual breakthrough in sphere packing

    Henry Cohn

  • Universal optimality of the $E_8$ and Leech lattices and interpolation formulas

    Henry Cohn;Abhinav Kumar;Stephen D. Miller;Danylo Radchenko

  • Sparse exchangeable graphs and their limits via graphon processes

    Christian Borgs;Jennifer T. Chayes;Henry Cohn;Nina Holden

  • Approximate common divisors via lattices.

    Henry Cohn;Nadia Heninger

  • An $L^{p}$ theory of sparse graph convergence II: LD convergence, quotients and right convergence

    Christian Borgs;Jennifer T. Chayes;Henry Cohn;Yufei Zhao

  • New upper bounds on sphere packings II

    Henry Cohn

  • On cap sets and the group-theoretic approach to matrix multiplication

    Jonah Blasiak;Thomas Church;Henry Cohn;Joshua A. Grochow

  • Algorithmic design of self-assembling structures

    Henry Cohn;Abhinav Kumar

  • SPHERE PACKING BOUNDS VIA SPHERICAL CODES

    Henry Cohn;Yufei Zhao

  • A Short Proof of the Simple Continued Fraction Expansion of e

    Henry Cohn

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Chayes
Jennifer Chayes University of California, Berkeley
Christian Borgs
Christian Borgs University of California, Berkeley
James Propp
James Propp University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ran Canetti
Ran Canetti Boston University
Robin Pemantle
Robin Pemantle University of Pennsylvania
Alon Rosen
Alon Rosen Bocconi University
Robert Kleinberg
Robert Kleinberg Cornell University
Douglas N. Arnold
Douglas N. Arnold University of Minnesota
Salvatore Torquato
Salvatore Torquato Princeton University

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