- Ken Ono
Ken Ono is an American
mathematician who specializes innumber theory , especially ininteger partitions ,modular forms , and the fields of interest toSrinivasa Ramanujan . He is currently theManasse Professor of Letters and Science and the Hilldale Professor of Mathematics at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison He received his BA from theUniversity of Chicago in 1989, and he received his PhD in 1993 atUCLA where his advisor wasBasil Gordon .Ono's contributions include several monographs and over 100 research and popular articles in
number theory ,combinatorics , andalgebra . He is considered to be one of the world's leading experts in the theory ofinteger partition s andmodular form s. In 2000 he 'greatly' expandedRamanujan 's theoryof partition congruences, and in work with Kathrin Bringmannhe has made important contributions to the theory ofMaass form s, functionswhich include Ramanujan'smock theta function s as examples. In 2007Don Zagier gave a Seminar Bourbaki address on the work of Bringmann, Ono, andZwegers on themock theta functions.Ono has received many awards for his research. In April 2000 he received the PresidentialCareer Award (
PECASE ) fromBill Clinton in a ceremony at the White House, and in June 2005 hereceived theNational Science Foundation Director's Distinguished Teaching ScholarAward at theNational Academy of Science . He has also won aSloan Fellowship ,a Packard Fellowship, and aGuggenheim Fellowship .In the 1980s he attended
Towson High School . He left high school earlyto attend theUniversity of Chicago and race bicycles. He was a member of thePepsi -Miyata Cycling Team.His father, Takashi Ono, is also a mathematician.
Honors and Awards
* National Security Agency Young Investigator (1997)
* National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1998)
* Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1999)
* David and Lucile Packard Research Fellowship (1999)
* Presidential Early Career Award (awarded by Clinton) (2000)
* National Science Foundation CBMS Distinguished Lecturer (2003)
* John S. Guggenheim Fellowship (2003)
* National Science Foundation Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award (2005)Editorial Boards
Ono is on the editorial board of eleven journals:
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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
* [http://www.intlpress.com/CNTP/CNTP-Editors.php Communications in Number Theory and Physics]
* [http://www.integers-ejcnt.org/ Integers]
* [http://ijmm.dixiewpublishing.com/ International Journal of Modern Mathematics]
* [http://www.worldscinet.com/ijnt/mkt/editorial.shtml The International Journal of Number Theory]
* [http://www.m-hikari.com/imf.html The International Mathematical Forum]
* [http://www.involvemath.org Involve]
* [https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=7065 Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory]
* [http://www.ojac.org Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics]
*Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
* [http://grove.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~fgarvan/ram_csh.cgi The Ramanujan Journal]External links
* [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ono Ken Ono's homepage]
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