Jonathan Keating | |
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| Born | (1963-09-20)20 September 1963 (age 61) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) University of Bristol (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Random matrix theory,quantum chaos,number theory,Riemann hypothesis,quantum graphs |
| Institutions | University of Manchester University of Bristol The Queen's College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Victor Berry |
| Doctoral students | Nina Snaith |
Jonathan Peter KeatingFRS (born 20 September 1963) is a British mathematician. As of September 2019, he is theSedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at theUniversity of Oxford, and from 2012 to 2019 was the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics at theUniversity of Bristol, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Science (2009–2013). He has made contributions toapplied mathematics andmathematical physics, in particular toquantum chaos,random matrix theory andnumber theory.
He read for an MA in physics atNew College, Oxford, before obtaining his PhD in 1989 at theUniversity of Bristol supervised byMichael Berry.[1][2]
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He lectured inapplied mathematics at theUniversity of Manchester from 1991 to 1995 before moving to theUniversity of Bristol, as a reader inapplied mathematics (1995–1997) and then as a professor inmathematical physics (1997–2012). He served as head of the Mathematics department (2001–2004) and was appointed to the Henry Overton Wills Chair in Mathematics at Bristol in 2012. His research has focused onquantum chaos,random matrix theory and its connection tonumber theory, especially the theory of theRiemann zeta-function and otherL-functions. He is known for his work on the resummation of semiclassical periodic orbit formulae, the statistics of quantum energy levels, quantum maps,quantum graphs, the statistics of thezeros of theRiemann zeta-function and otherL-functions, and the moments of the Riemann zeta-function and otherL-functions. He has served on the editorial boards of severalpeer reviewedscientific journals including:
He was the Chair of theHeilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research until July 2020.
In September 2019, he succeededJohn M. Ball asSedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at theUniversity of Oxford.[3]
In November 2019 he succeededCaroline Series as president of theLondon Mathematical Society.[4]
His doctoral students includeNina Snaith.[1][5]
Between 2004 and 2009 Keating was supported by an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship.
He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009.[6]
In 2010, he was awarded the London Mathematical Society'sFröhlich Prize.[7]
In 2014, he was awarded aRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.[8]
He holds an ERC Advanced Grant.[9]
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