Nina Snaith

In 1998, Snaith and her then adviser Jonathan Keating conjectured a value for the leading coefficient of the asymptotics of the moments of the Riemann zeta function. Keating and Snaith's guessed value for the constant was based on random-matrix theory, following a trend that started with Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture. Keating's and Snaith's work extended works^[3] by Brian Conrey, Ghosh, and Gonek, also conjectural, based on number theoretic heuristics; Conrey, Farmer, Keating, Rubinstein, and Snaith later conjectured the lower terms in the asymptotics of the moments.^[4] Snaith's work appeared in her doctoral thesis Random Matrix Theory and zeta functions.^[1]

Snaith is currently Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Bristol.^[5][6]

In 2008, Snaith was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize.

In 2014, she delivered the annual Hanna Neumann Lecture to honour the achievements of women in mathematics.^[7]

Snaith is the daughter of mathematician Victor Snaith [de] and sister of mathematician and musician Dan Snaith, mostly known by his artistic names Manitoba, Caribou, and Daphni.^[8]