Keith Ball#
Membership Number: | 6458 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | MATHEMATICS |
Elected: | 2023 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://keithmball.wordpress.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1987 PhD Cambridge, under the supervision of B. Bollobas
- 1989 Visiting Professor Texas A&M University
- 1990 Lecturer University College London
- 1991 Professor Texas A&M University
- 1996 Professor University College London
- 2006 Astor Professor University College London
- 2010 Professor University of Warwick
- 2010 - 2014 Director of ICMS (International Center for Mathematical Sciences) Edinburgh and
- Professor, University of Edinburgh, Heriot Watt University
Fields of Scholarship
- Convex geometry
- High-dimensional and discrete geometry
- Information theory
- Functional analysis
Honours and Awards
- 1992 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
- 2003 - 2004 Leverhulme Fellow
- 2013 AMS Fellow (Inaugural Class of Fellows)
- 2013 Royal Society Fellow
- 2013 Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow
- 2022 Invited Speaker ICM 2022 (Special Lecture)
- Visiting Positions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Princeton University, Microsoft Research, University of Michigan, Institut Henri Poincaré