Nina Snaith
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Born | Nina Claire Snaith |
Awards | Suffrage Science award (2018) Whitehead Prize (2008) |
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Institutions | University of Bristol |
Thesis | Random Matrix Theory and zeta functions (2000) |
Doctoral advisor | Jonathan Keating[1] |
Website | www |
Nina Claire Snaith is a British mathematician at the University of Bristol working in random matrix theory and quantum chaos.
Education[]
Snaith was educated at the University of Bristol where she received her PhD in 2000[2] for research supervised by Jonathan Keating.[1]
Career and research[]
In 1998, she and her then adviser Jonathan Keating conjectured a value for the leading coefficient of the asymptotics of the moments of the Riemann zeta function. Keating and Snaith's guessed value for the constant was based on random-matrix theory, following a trend that started with Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture. Keating's and Snaith's work extended works[3] by Brian Conrey, Ghosh, and Gonek, also conjectural, based on number theoretic heuristics; Conrey, Farmer, Keating, Rubinstein, and Snaith later conjectured the lower terms in the asymptotics of the moments. Snaith's work appeared in her doctoral thesis Random Matrix Theory and zeta functions.[1]
Awards and honours[]
In 2008, she was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize.
In 2014, Snaith delivered the 2014 Hanna Neuman Lecture [4] to honour the achievements of women in mathematics.
Personal life[]
Nina Snaith is the daughter of mathematician Dan Snaith.
and sister of mathematician and musicianReferences[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Nina Snaith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Snaith, Nina Claire (2000). Random matrix theory and zeta functions (PhD thesis). University of Bristol. OCLC 53552484. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.322610.
- ^ "No Title". Cite uses generic title (help)
- ^ "Hanna Neumann Lecture r".
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- 21st-century British mathematicians
- British women mathematicians
- Alumni of the University of Bristol
- Academics of the University of Bristol
- Living people
- Canadian mathematicians
- Whitehead Prize winners
- 20th-century women mathematicians
- 21st-century women mathematicians