Ken Ono
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Ken Ono is an American mathematician who specializes in number theory, especially in integer partitions, modular forms, and the fields of interest to Srinivasa Ramanujan. He is currently the Manasse Professor of Letters and Science and the Hilldale Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison He received his BA from the University of Chicago in 1989, and he received his PhD in 1993 at UCLA where his advisor was Basil Gordon.
Ono's contributions include several monographs and over 100 research and popular articles in number theory, combinatorics, and algebra. He is considered to be one of the world's leading experts in the theory of integer partitions and modular forms. In 2000 he 'greatly' expanded Ramanujan's theory of partition congruences, and in work with Kathrin Bringmann he has made important contributions to the theory of Maass forms, functions which include Ramanujan's mock theta functions as examples. In 2007 Don Zagier gave a Seminar Bourbaki address on the work of Bringmann, Ono, and Zwegers on the mock theta functions.
Ono has received many awards for his research. In April 2000 he received the Presidential Career Award (PECASE) from Bill Clinton in a ceremony at the White House, and in June 2005 he received the National Science Foundation Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award at the National Academy of Science. He has also won a Sloan Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In the 1980s he attended Towson High School. He left high school early to attend the University of Chicago and race bicycles. He was a member of the Pepsi-Miyata Cycling Team.
His father, Takashi Ono, is also a mathematician.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Editorial Boards
Ono is on the editorial board of eleven journals:
- Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
- Communications in Number Theory and Physics
- Integers
- International Journal of Modern Mathematics
- The International Journal of Number Theory
- The International Mathematical Forum
- Involve
- Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory
- Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics
- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
- The Ramanujan Journal
