Neil O'Connell
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Trinity College Dublin (B.A. (mod) 1989, M.Sc. 1990)
Rollo Davidson Prize (2005)
Neil O'Connell | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ireland |
| Education | UC Berkeley (PhD, 1993) Trinity College Dublin (B.A. (mod) 1989, M.Sc. 1990) |
| Awards | Itô Prize (2002) Rollo Davidson Prize (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies University of Warwick University College Dublin |
| Thesis | The Genealogy of Branching Processes (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Steven Neil Evans |
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]
