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Mathematics
Ireland
2026

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Mathematics

D-Index
30
Citations
4080
World Ranking
3504
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Neil O'Connell is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the field of Mathematics, with a significant focus on Statistics and Probability, Mathematical Physics, and Artificial Intelligence. Other notable subfields include Condensed Matter Physics and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

The scientist's work covers various main topics relevant to contemporary mathematical and physical research. These topics include:

  • Random Matrices and Applications
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics
  • Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
  • Algebraic structures and combinatorial models

Recent scholarly contributions by Neil O'Connell include the following publications:

  • "Tilted elastic lines with columnar and point disorder, non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, and spiked random matrices: Pinning and localization," 2021, in Physical Review E
  • "Integer moments of complex Wishart matrices and Hurwitz numbers," 2021, in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D Combinatorics Physics and their Interactions
  • "The geometric Burge correspondence and the partition function of polymer replicas," 2021, published both in arXiv (Cornell University) and Selecta Mathematica
  • "Matsumoto-Yor and Dufresne type theorems for a random walk on positive definite matrices," 2024, in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques

Neil O'Connell frequently collaborates with other researchers, among whom are:

  • Elia Bisi
  • Jonas Arista
  • Nikos Zygouras
  • Alexandre Krajenbrink
  • Pierre Le Doussal

The scientist's work has appeared in a range of publication venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review E
  • Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D Combinatorics Physics and their Interactions
  • Selecta Mathematica
  • Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques

Best Publications

  • Large deviations and overflow probabilities for the general single-server queue, with applications

    N. G. Duffield;Neil O'connell

  • Brownian analogues of Burke's theorem

    Neil O'Connell;Marc Yor

  • Directed polymers and the quantum Toda lattice

    Neil O'Connell

  • On the Characteristic Polynomial of a Random Unitary Matrix

    CP Hughes;Jon P Keating;Neil O'Connell

  • Entropy of ATM traffic streams: a tool for estimating QoS parameters

    N.G. Duffield;J.T. Lewis;N. O'Connell;R. Russell

  • Tropical combinatorics and Whittaker functions

    Ivan Corwin;Neil O’Connell;Timo Seppäläinen;Nikolaos Zygouras

  • Littelmann paths and Brownian paths

    Philippe Biane;Philippe Bougerol;Neil O'Connell

  • A Representation for Non-Colliding Random Walks

    Neil O'Connell;Marc Yor

  • Eigenvalues of the Laguerre Process as Non-Colliding Squared Bessel Processes

    Wolfgang König;Neil O'Connell

  • Random matrix theory and the derivative of the Riemann zeta function

    C. P. Hughes;C. P. Hughes;J. P. Keating;Neil O'Connell

  • Big Queues

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  • Non-Colliding Random Walks, Tandem Queues, and DiscreteOrthogonal Polynomial Ensembles

    Wolfgang König;Neil O'Connell;Sébastien Roch

  • Geometric RSK correspondence, Whittaker functions and symmetrized random polymers

    Neil O’Connell;Timo Seppäläinen;Nikos Zygouras

  • Some large deviation results for sparse random graphs

    Neil O'Connell

  • Predicting quality of service for traffic with long-range fluctuations

    N.G. Duffield;J.T. Lewis;N. O'Connell;R. Russell

  • Conditioned random walks and the RSK correspondence

    Neil O'Connell

  • A path-transformation for random walks and the Robinson-Schensted correspondence

    Neil O'Connell

  • Big Queues, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics

    AJ Ganesh;N O'Connell;D Wischik

  • Random matrices, non-colliding processes and queues

    Neil O’Connell

  • Continuous crystal and Duistermaat-Heckman measure for Coxeter groups

    Philippe Biane;Philippe Bougerol;Neil O'Connell

  • A large deviation principle with queueing applications

    A.J. Ganesh;Neil O'Connell

  • A q-weighted version of the Robinson-Schensted algorithm

    Neil O'Connell;Yuchen Pei

  • Tracy-Widom asymptotics for a random polymer model with gamma-distributed weights

    Neil O'Connell;Janosch Ortmann

  • Littelmann paths and brownian paths

    Philippe Biane;Philippe Bougerol;Neil O'Connell

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayalvadi Ganesh
Ayalvadi Ganesh University of Bristol
Richard L. Snyder
Richard L. Snyder University of California, Davis
Nick Duffield
Nick Duffield Texas A&M University
Ben Hambly
Ben Hambly University of Oxford
Timo Seppäläinen
Timo Seppäläinen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Satya N. Majumdar
Satya N. Majumdar University of Paris-Saclay
Balaji Prabhakar
Balaji Prabhakar Stanford University
Marc Yor
Marc Yor Sorbonne University
Ivan Corwin
Ivan Corwin Columbia University
Frank G. Zalom
Frank G. Zalom University of California, Davis

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