Brian Conrey

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John Brian Conrey
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Brian Conrey in 2009
Born (1955-06-23) June 23, 1955 (age 68)
Alma mater University of Michigan
Santa Clara University
Awards Levi L. Conant Prize (2008)
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2015)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions American Institute of Mathematics
University of Bristol
Thesis Zeros of Derivatives of Riemann's XI Function on the Critical Line (1980)
Doctoral advisor Hugh Lowell Montgomery

John Brian Conrey [1] (23 June 1955) is an American mathematician and the executive director of the American Institute of Mathematics. His research interests are in number theory, specifically analysis of L-functions and the Riemann zeta function.

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Education

Conrey received his B.S. from Santa Clara University in 1976 and received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1980 under the supervision of Hugh Lowell Montgomery. [2] [3]

Career

Conrey is the founding executive director of the American Institute of Mathematics, a position he has held since 1997. [4] [5] Since 2005, he has been part-time professor at the University of Bristol, England. [6]

He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Number Theory.

Research

With Bui and Young, Conrey proved in 2011 that more than 41 percent of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function are on the critical line. [7]

With Jonathan Keating, Nina Snaith, and others, Conrey researched correlations of eigenvalues of random unitary matrices and Riemann zeta zeros. [8]

Awards and honors

The American Mathematical Society jointly awarded him the eighth annual Levi L. Conant Prize for expository writing in 2008 for The Riemann Hypothesis . [6] [9] In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [10]

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References

  1. Conrey biodata
  2. University of Bristol – Department of Mathematics faculty
  3. Brian Conrey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ARCC Staff Archived January 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Math geniuses chase zeros at camp – USATODAY.com
  6. 1 2 University of Bristol – Brian Conrey receives 2008 Conant Prize
  7. Bui, H. M.; Conrey, Brian; Young, Matthew P. (1999-02-22). "More than 41% of the zeros of the zeta function are on the critical line". Acta Arithmetica. 150 (1): 35–64. arXiv: 1002.4127 . doi: 10.4064/aa150-1-3 . ISSN   0065-1036. S2CID   115174787 . Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  8. Conrey, John; Snaith, Nina (2008). "Correlations of eigenvalues and Riemann zeros". Communications in Number Theory and Physics. 2 (3). International Press of Boston: 477–536. arXiv: 0803.2795 . doi: 10.4310/cntp.2008.v2.n3.a1 . ISSN   1931-4523.
  9. Conrey, Brian (2003). "The Riemann Hypothesis" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 50 (3): 341–353. ISSN   0002-9920.
  10. 2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2015-11-16.