Nina Snaith | |
|---|---|
 Snaith in 2009 | |
| Born | Nina Claire Snaith |
| Awards | Suffrage Science award (2018) Whitehead Prize (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Thesis | Random Matrix Theory and zeta functions (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jonathan Keating[1] |
| Website | https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~mancs/ |
Nina Claire Snaith is a British mathematician at the University of Bristol working in random matrix theory and quantum chaos.
Education
[edit]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
[edit]In 1998, Snaith 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.[4] Snaith's work appeared in her doctoral thesis Random Matrix Theory and zeta functions.[1]
Snaith is currently Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Bristol.[5][6]
Awards and honours
[edit]In 2008, Snaith was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize.
In 2014, she delivered the annual Hanna Neumann Lecture to honour the achievements of women in mathematics.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Snaith is the daughter of mathematician Victor Snaith and sister of mathematician and musician Dan Snaith, mostly known by his artistic names Manitoba, Caribou, and Daphni.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Conrey, J. B.; Gonek, S. M. (15 April 2001). "High moments of the Riemann zeta-function". Duke Mathematical Journal. 107 (3). arXiv:math/9902162. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-01-10737-0. ISSN 0012-7094.
- ^ Conrey, J. B.; Farmer, D. W.; Keating, J. P.; Rubinstein, M. O.; Snaith, N. C. (2005). "Integral moments of L-functions". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 91 (01): 33–104. arXiv:math/0206018. doi:10.1112/S0024611504015175. ISSN 0024-6115.
- ^ "Nina Snaith's Home Page". Department of Mathematics. University of Bristol.
- ^ "Professor Nina Snaith". University of Bristol: Our People. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ^ "Hanna Neumann Lecturer".
- ^ Jardine, J. F. (March 2023). "Victor Percy Snaith, 1944–2021". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 55 (2): 1041–1058. doi:10.1112/blms.12802.
