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. "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.
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