Alex Barnett (mathematician)
{{Short description|British mathematician (born 1972)}}
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Alex Barnett (born 1972) is a senior mathematician at the Flatiron Institute and professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College.{{cite web|url=http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~ahb/ |title=Alex Barnett's page of home @ Dartmouth |publisher=Math.dartmouth.edu |date= |access-date=10 June 2012}}{{Cite web |date=25 October 2017 |title=Alex Barnett |url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/alex-barnett/ |access-date=30 March 2024 |website=Simons Foundation}}
Barnett is also a jazz and funk musician. He has composed the music for a number of films{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/orgasminc/credits.html |title=Orgasm Inc. : Credits – The Passionate Eye|website=CBC|date=27 July 2010 |access-date=10 June 2012|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20121108183217/http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/orgasminc/credits.html|archivedate=8 November 2012}} by his wife, director Liz Canner.
Career
Barnett attended Cambridge University and received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Harvard University. He has written on topics such as efficient and accurate computational methods for waves, PDE eigenvalue problems, periodic problems, and quantum chaos.{{cite web|url=http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~ahb/pubs.html |title=Alex Barnett: publications, talks, notes |publisher=Math.dartmouth.edu |date= |accessdate=10 June 2012}}
His high-frequency eigenfunction calculations are some of the fastest in the world.{{cite journal|title=Asymptotic rate of quantum ergodicity in chaotic Euclidean billiards |doi=10.1002/cpa.20150 |date=29 June 2006 |volume=59 |issue=10 |journal=Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics |pages=1457–1488|arxiv=math-ph/0512030 |last1 = Barnett|first1 = Alexander|s2cid=4839902 }}
Barnett was on the faculty at Dartmouth for twelve years before becoming a full professor in 2017. He was the third person hired at the Flatiron Institute and is currently a senior mathematician there. {{cite web |title=Alex Barnett |url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/alex-barnett/ |website=Simons Foundation |access-date=2 June 2021 |date=25 October 2017}}
Recognition
In 2010, Barnett won first prize in the XXI International Physics Olympiad
{{cite web |title=List of winners |url=https://dokutar.omikk.bme.hu/web/Konyvtar/IPHO.pdf |website=dokutar.omikk.bme.hu |access-date=11 May 2023}} He has also received the Hockins Prize, the Kennedy Scholarship, the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement, the Jeffe Fellowship, and the Harold T. White Prize.
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Category:English mathematicians
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