Nina Snaith | |
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 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.
Snaith was educated at the University of Bristol where she received her PhD in 2000[2] for research supervised by Jonathan Keating.[1]
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. 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.[4][5]
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.[6]
Snaith is the daughter of mathematician Victor Snaith and sister of mathematician and musician Dan Snaith, mostly known by his artistic name Caribou.[citation needed]
