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 theUniversity of Bristol working inrandom matrix theory andquantum chaos.
Snaith was educated at theUniversity of Bristol where she received her PhD in 2000[2] for research supervised byJonathan Keating.[1]
In 1998, Snaith and her then adviserJonathan Keating conjectured a value for the leading coefficient of the asymptotics of the moments of theRiemann zeta function. Keating and Snaith's guessed value for the constant was based on random-matrix theory, followinga trend that started withMontgomery's pair correlation conjecture. Keating's and Snaith's work extended works[3] byBrian Conrey, Ghosh, and Gonek, also conjectural, based on number theoreticheuristics; 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 thesisRandom Matrix Theory and zeta functions.[1]
Snaith is currently Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Bristol.[5][6]
In 2008, Snaith was awarded the London Mathematical Society'sWhitehead Prize.
In 2014, she delivered the annualHanna Neumann Lecture to honour the achievements of women in mathematics.[7]
Snaith is the daughter of mathematicianVictor Snaith [de] and sister of mathematician and musicianDan Snaith, mostly known by his artistic names Manitoba, Caribou, and Daphni.[8]
