1. Ken Ono was born on March 20,1968 and is an American mathematician with fields of study in number theory.
23 Facts About Ken Ono
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Ken Ono is the STEM Advisor to the Provost and the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia.
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Ken Ono is the son of mathematician Takashi Ono, who emigrated from Japan to the United States after World War II.
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Ken Ono was born in the United States as his father returned to the United States from the University of British Columbia in Canada for a position at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Ken Ono later enrolled at the University of Chicago without a high school diploma.
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Ken Ono received his BA from the University of Chicago in 1989, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.
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Ken Ono earned his PhD in 1993 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where his advisor was Basil Gordon.
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Ken Ono worked as an instructor at Woodbury University from 1991 to 1993, as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Georgia from 1993 to 1994, and as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1994 to 1995.
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Ken Ono was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1995 to 1997.
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Ken Ono moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an associate professor in 1999, and later became the Solle P and Margaret Manasse Professor of Letters and Science from 2004 to 2011 and as the Hilldale Professor of Mathematics from 2008 to 2011.
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Ken Ono was the Candler Professor of Mathematics at Emory University from 2010 to 2019.
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In 2019, Ken Ono became the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, where he was named the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics and the chair of the Department of Mathematics in fall 2021.
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Ken Ono ended his term as chair in Fall 2022 to become the STEM Advisor to the Provost at the University of Virginia.
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Ken Ono was the Vice President of the American Mathematical Society from 2018 to 2021.
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Ken Ono is serving as the section chair for mathematics at the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 2020 to 2023.
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In 2000, Ken Ono derived a theory of Ramanjun's congruences for the partition function with all prime moduli greater than 3.
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Ken Ono's paper was published in the Annals of Mathematics.
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In May 2019, Ken Ono published a joint paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the Riemann Hypothesis.
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Ken Ono wrote, with Amir Aczel as coauthor, an autobiography, emphasizing the inspiration he gained from Ramanujan's mathematical research.
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Ken Ono was an Associate Producer and the mathematical consultant for the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity, which starred Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel, based on Ramanujan's biography written by Robert Kanigel.
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Ken Ono starred in a 2022 Super Bowl commercial for Miller Lite beer.
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Ken Ono is on the Board of Directors of the Infinity Arts Foundation.
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From 2012 to 2014, Ken Ono has competed in World Triathlon Cross Championships events, representing the United States.