Contact Information
304 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
Prime number theory, divisor theory, random permutations, arithmetic functions, probabilistic number theory, comparative prime number theory, sieve theory, Riemann zeta function.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Mathematics
External Links
I am an editor of Research in Number Theory (https://www.springer.com/journal/40993).
I am an editor of the Bulletin and Journal of the London Mathematical Society (https://www.lms.ac.uk/publications/jlms)
Recent Publications
Banks, W., Ford, K., & Tao, T. (2023). Large prime gaps and probabilistic models. Inventiones Mathematicae, 233(3), 1471-1518. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-023-01199-0
Ford, K., Green, B., & Koukoulopoulos, D. (2023). Equal sums in random sets and the concentration of divisors. Inventiones Mathematicae, 232(3), 1027-1160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-022-01177-y
Ford, K. (2022). Cycle Type of Random Permutations: a Toolkit. Discrete Analysis, 2022, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.19086/da.38090
Ford, K., Kutzarova, D., & Shakan, G. (2022). Explicit RIP matrices: an update. Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 168(2), 509-515. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-022-01290-7
Ford, K. (2022). Joint Poisson distribution of prime factors in sets. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 173(1), 189-200. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305004121000499