SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

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The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, founded by Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) located near Kumbakonam, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan's hometown, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest. The age limit for the prize has been set at 32 (the age at which Ramanujan died), and the current award is $10,000.

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Winners

An F symbol denotes mathematicians who later earned a Fields Medal.

YearNameInstitution
2005 Manjul Bhargava F

Kannan Soundararajan

Princeton University

University of Michigan

2006 Terence Tao F University of California at Los Angeles
2007 Ben Green Cambridge University
2008 Akshay Venkatesh F Stanford University
2009 Kathrin Bringmann University of Cologne, Germany, and University of Minnesota, USA
2010 Wei Zhang Harvard University
2011 Roman Holowinsky [1] Ohio State University
2012 Zhiwei Yun [2] Stanford University
2013 Peter Scholze F [3] University of Bonn
2014 James Maynard F [4] Oxford University, England, and University of Montreal, Canada
2015 Jacob Tsimerman University of Toronto, Canada
2016 Kaisa Matomäki

Maksym Radziwill [5]

University of Turku, Finland;

McGill University, Canada, and Rutgers University, USA

2017 Maryna Viazovska F [6] École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2018 Yifeng Liu

Jack Thorne [7]

Yale University, USA;

Cambridge University, United Kingdom

2019 Adam Harper [8] University of Warwick, England (UK)
2020 Shai Evra [9] Princeton University, USA, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2021 Will Sawin [10] Columbia University, USA
2022 Yunqing Tang [11] University of California, Berkeley, USA
2023 Ruixiang Zhang [12] University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Yunqing Tang is a mathematician specialising in number theory and arithmetic geometry and an Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2022 for "having established, by herself and in collaboration, a number of striking results on some central problems in arithmetic geometry and number theory".

References

  1. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2011
  2. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2012
  3. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2013
  4. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2014
  5. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2016
  6. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2017
  7. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2018
  8. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2019
  9. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2020
  10. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2021
  11. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2022
  12. ↑ SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2023
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