Brian Conrey
{{short description|American mathematician}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|06|23}}
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| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = American Institute of Mathematics{{br}}University of Bristol
| alma_mater = University of Michigan{{br}}Santa Clara University
| thesis_title = Zeros of Derivatives of Riemann's XI Function on the Critical Line
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| thesis_year = 1980
| doctoral_advisor = Hugh Lowell Montgomery
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| awards = Levi L. Conant Prize (2008){{br}} Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2015)
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John Brian Conrey[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724124923/http://watchdog.net/contrib/95046/john_brian_conrey Conrey biodata] (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.
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.[http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/people/faculty/majbc/ University of Bristol – Department of Mathematics faculty]{{MathGenealogy|id=7245}}
Career
Conrey is the founding executive director of the American Institute of Mathematics, a position he has held since 1997.[http://www.aimath.org/about/arccstaff.html ARCC Staff] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128164631/http://www.aimath.org/about/arccstaff.html |date=January 28, 2008 }}[https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/mathscience/2007-07-30-math-camp_N.htm Math geniuses chase zeros at camp – USATODAY.com] Since 2005, he has been part-time professor at the University of Bristol, England.[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/5772.html University of Bristol – Brian Conrey receives 2008 Conant Prize]
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.{{cite journal | last1=Bui | first1=H. M. | last2=Conrey | first2=Brian | last3=Young | first3=Matthew P. | title=More than 41% of the zeros of the zeta function are on the critical line | journal=Acta Arithmetica | volume=150 | issue=1 | date=1999-02-22 | issn=0065-1036 | pages=35–64 | doi=10.4064/aa150-1-3 | s2cid=115174787 | url=http://eudml.org/doc/278946 | access-date=2022-09-25| doi-access=free | arxiv=1002.4127 }}
With Jonathan Keating, Nina Snaith, and others, Conrey researched correlations of eigenvalues of random unitary matrices and Riemann zeta zeros.{{cite journal | last1=Conrey | first1=John | last2=Snaith | first2=Nina | title=Correlations of eigenvalues and Riemann zeros | journal=Communications in Number Theory and Physics | publisher=International Press of Boston | volume=2 | issue=3 | year=2008 | issn=1931-4523 | doi=10.4310/cntp.2008.v2.n3.a1 | pages=477–536| doi-access=free | arxiv=0803.2795 }}
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.{{cite journal | last=Conrey | first=Brian | title=The Riemann Hypothesis | journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society | volume=50 | issue=3 | year=2003 | url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200303/fea-conrey-web.pdf?adat=March%202003&trk=200303fea-conrey-web&cat=feature&galt=none | issn=0002-9920 | pages=341–353}} In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows|title=2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|accessdate=2015-11-16}}.
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