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 sister of mathematician and musician Dan Snaith.
References
- ^ 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".
- ^ "Hanna Neumann Lecture r".