John Erik Fornæss

Professor Emeritus

Sentralbygg 2, 932, Gløshaugen, Alfred Getz vei 1

john.fornass@ntnu.no

John Erik Fornæss (1946) has been a Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 2012, and belongs to the Analysis Research Group.

Professor Fornæss has a Master degree in Mathematics from the University of Oslo, and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Washington, USA.

He has previously held positions as a Professor at the Princeton University and later, the University of Michigan.

Fellowships and awards

NSF grants 1974-2015
Sloan Fellowship 1978
ICM, Invited speaker, 1982
Humboldt Fellowship
Stefan Bergman Prize, 1994
Member of Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters 2012-
Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 2013-

Commissions of trust

Member, NSF panels
Member, Journal Editorial Boards

Memberships of scientific societies

American Mathematical Society
European Mathematical Society
Norwegian Mathematical Society

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Deng, Fusheng; Fornæss, John Erik. (2019) Flat Bundles Over Some Compact Complex Manifolds. Journal of Geometric Analysis.
Fornæss, John Erik; Wu, Jujie. (2019) Weighted approximation in C. Mathematische Zeitschrift.
Bracci, Filippo; Fornæss, John Erik; Wold, Erlend Fornæss. (2018) Comparison of invariant metrics and distances on strongly pseudoconvex domains and worm domains. Mathematische Zeitschrift.
Deng, Fusheng; Fornæss, John Erik; Wold, Erlend Fornæss. (2018) Exposing boundary points of strongly pseudoconvex subvarieties in complex spaces. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. vol. 146 (6).
Diederich, K; Fornæss, John Erik. (2018) Boundary behavior of the Bergman metric. Asian Journal of Mathematics. vol. 22 (2).
Fornæss, John Erik; Rong, Feng. (2018) Estimate of the squeezing function for a class of bounded domains. Mathematische Annalen. vol. 371 (3-4).
Fornæss, John Erik; Shcherbina, Nikolay. (2018) A Domain with Non-plurisubharmonic Squeezing Function. Journal of Geometric Analysis. vol. 28.
Fornæss, John Erik; Wold, Erlend Fornæss. (2018) A non-strictly pseudoconvex domain for which the squeezing function tends to 1 towards the boundary. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. vol. 297 (1).
Fornæss, John Erik; Peters, Han. (2017) Complex dynamics with focus on the real part. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. vol. 37 (1).
Fornæss, John Erik; Wu, Jujie. (2017) A Global Approximation Result by Bert Alan Taylor and the Strong Openness Conjecture in Cn. Journal of Geometric Analysis. vol. 28.
Diederich, Klas; Fornæss, John Erik; Wold, Erlend Fornæss. (2016) A characterization of the ball in Cn. International Journal of Mathematics. vol. 27 (9).
Fornæss, John Erik. (2016) On a conjecture by Blocki and Zwonek. Science China Mathematics.
Fornæss, John Erik; Wold, Erlend Fornæss. (2016) Non-autonomous basins with uniform bounds are elliptic. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. vol. 144 (11).
Boc-Thaler, Luka; Fornæss, John Erik; Peters, Han. (2015) Fatou components with punctured limit sets. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. vol. 35 (5).
Fornæss, John Erik; Kim, Kang-Tae. (2015) Some problems. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & statistics. vol. 144.
Fornæss, John Erik; Wold, Erlend Fornæss. (2015) An estimate for the squeezing function and estimates of invariant metrics. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & statistics. vol. 144.
Bracci, Filippo; Fornæss, John Erik. (2014) The range of holomorphic maps at boundary points. Mathematische Annalen. vol. 359 (3-4).
Fornæss, John Erik; Lee, Lina; Zhang, Yuan. (2014) Formal complex curves in real smooth hypersurfaces. Illinois Journal of Mathematics. vol. 58 (1).
Fornæss, John Erik; Rong, Feng. (2014) Classification of recurrent domains for holomorphic maps on complex projective spaces. Journal of Geometric Analysis. vol. 24 (2).
Klas, Diederich; Fornæss, John Erik; Wold, Erlend Fornæss. (2014) Exposing Points on the Boundary of a Strictly Pseudoconvex or a Locally Convexifiable Domain of Finite 1-Type. Journal of Geometric Analysis. vol. 24 (4).