In 1998, Snaith and her then adviser
Jonathan Keating conjectured a value for the leading coefficient of the asymptotics of the moments of the
Riemann zeta function. Keating and Snaith's guessed value for the constant was based on random-matrix theory, following a trend that started with
Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture. Keating's and Snaith's work extended works by
Brian Conrey, Ghosh, and Gonek, also conjectural, based on number theoretic
heuristics; Conrey, Farmer, Keating, Rubinstein, and Snaith later conjectured the lower terms in the asymptotics of the moments. Snaith's work appeared in her doctoral thesis
Random Matrix Theory and zeta functions. Snaith is currently Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Bristol.
Awards and honours In 2008, Snaith was awarded the London Mathematical Society's
Whitehead Prize. In 2014, she delivered the annual
Hanna Neumann Lecture to honour the achievements of women in mathematics. ==Personal life==