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11 Facts About Jonathan Keating

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Jonathan Peter Keating was born on 20 September 1963 and is a British mathematician.

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Jonathan Keating has made contributions to applied mathematics and mathematical physics, in particular to quantum chaos, random matrix theory and number theory.

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Jonathan Keating read for an MA in physics at New College, Oxford, before obtaining his PhD in 1989 at the University of Bristol supervised by Michael Berry.

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Jonathan Keating lectured in applied mathematics at the University of Manchester from 1991 to 1995 before moving to the University of Bristol, as a reader in applied mathematics and then as a professor in mathematical physics.

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Jonathan Keating served as head of the Mathematics department and was appointed to the Henry Overton Wills Chair in Mathematics at Bristol in 2012.

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Jonathan Keating's research has focused on quantum chaos, random matrix theory and its connection to number theory, especially the theory of the Riemann zeta-function and other L-functions.

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Jonathan Keating is known for his work on the resummation of semiclassical periodic orbit formulae, the statistics of quantum energy levels, quantum maps, quantum graphs, the statistics of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function and other, and the moments of the Riemann zeta-function and other.

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Jonathan Keating has served on the editorial boards of several peer reviewed scientific journals including:.

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Jonathan Keating was the Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research until July 2020.

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Between 2004 and 2009 Keating was supported by an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship.

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Jonathan Keating was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.