John Brian Conrey (23 June 1955) is an

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mathematician and the executive director of the

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. His research interests are in

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777� ...

, specifically analysis of

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s and the

Riemann zeta function The Riemann zeta function or Euler–Riemann zeta function, denoted by the Greek letter (zeta), is a mathematical function of a complex variable defined as \zeta(s) = \sum_^\infty \frac = \frac + \frac + \frac + \cdots for \operatorname(s) > ...

Education

Conrey received his B.S. from

Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mis ...

in 1976 and received his Ph.D. at the

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in 1980 under the supervision of

Hugh Lowell Montgomery Hugh Lowell Montgomery (born August 26, 1944) is an American mathematician, working in the fields of analytic number theory and mathematical analysis. As a Marshall scholar, Montgomery earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. For many ...

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Career

Conrey is the founding executive director of the

, a position he has held since 1997.ARCC Staff
Since 2005, he has been part-time professor at the

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.University of Bristol – Brian Conrey receives 2008 Conant Prize
/ref> He is on the editorial board of the

Journal of Number Theory The ''Journal of Number Theory'' (''JNT'') is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of number theory. The journal was established in 1969 by R.P. Bambah, P. Roquette, A. Ross, A. Woods, and H. Zassenhaus (Ohio State Un ...

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. With

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Nina Snaith Nina Claire Snaith is a British mathematician at the University of Bristol working in random matrix theory and quantum chaos. Education Snaith was educated at the University of Bristol where she received her PhD in 2000 for research supervised b ...

, and others, Conrey researched correlations of eigenvalues of random unitary matrices and Riemann zeta zeros.

Awards and honors

The

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

jointly awarded him the eighth annual

Levi L. Conant Prize The Levi L. Conant Prize is a mathematics prize of the American Mathematical Society, which has been awarded since 2000 for outstanding expository papers published in the ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'' or the ''Notices of the Amer ...

for expository writing in 2008 for '' The Riemann Hypothesis''. In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society..

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* 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Number theorists Academics of the University of Bristol Living people Santa Clara University alumni University of Michigan alumni Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 1955 births {{US-mathematician-stub