Neil O'Connell

Neil Michael O'Connell is an Irish mathematician from Shannon, County Clare. He attended Trinity College Dublin, and was elected to scholarship in 1987.[1] He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and a gold medal in 1989 and completed an M.Sc. in 1990.[2] He obtained his PhD in 1993 at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Steven Neil Evans.[3][2] He subsequently worked at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,[4] and the University of Warwick.[2]

He works in probability theory, in particular random matrices. He was awarded the inaugural Itô prize in 2002 (together with Ben Hambly and James Martin),[5] and the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2005.[6] In 2013 he was Doob Lecturer at the 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, in Boulder, Colorado.[7] He is currently Professor at University College Dublin.[2]

References

  1. ^ "List of Scholars". TCD Scholars. TCD Life. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "UCD Page for Professor Neil O'Connell". www.ucd.ie. University College Dublin. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Neil Michael O'Connell". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  4. ^ "O'Connell, N (Past Members)". www.dias.ie. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Itô Prize". www.bernoulli-society.org. Bernoulli Society. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Rollo Davidson Trust". www.statslab.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge Statistical Laboratory. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Schramm/Doob Lecture Selection Committee". www.bernoulli-society.org. Bernoulli Society. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2021.