The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize is an annual prize awarded to outstanding contributions in mathematics. It was incorporated and is awarded by the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. The award is named after Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It is awarded to individuals younger than 32 years, and carries a cash prize of $10,000. It aims to serve as a platform to encourage young mathematicians to explore uncharted areas of mathematics. [1]
F denotes recipients of Fields Medal.
Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.
Akshay Venkatesh is an Indian Australian mathematician and a professor at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.
Kannan Soundararajan is an Indian-born American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford in 2006, he was a faculty member at University of Michigan, where he had also pursued his undergraduate studies. His main research interest is in analytic number theory, particularly in the subfields of automorphic L-functions, and multiplicative number theory.
The DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries is a mathematics prize awarded annually by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy. The prize is named after the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It was founded in 2004, and was first awarded in 2005.
Kathrin Bringmann is a German number theorist in the University of Cologne, Germany, who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of mock theta functions.
Roman Holowinsky is an American mathematician known for his work in number theory and, in particular, the theory of modular forms. He is currently an associate professor with tenure at the Ohio State University.
Peter Scholze is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He has been a professor at the University of Bonn since 2012 and director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics since 2018. He has been called one of the leading mathematicians in the world. He won the Fields Medal in 2018, which is regarded as the highest professional honor in mathematics.
James Alexander Maynard is an English mathematician working in analytic number theory and in particular the theory of prime numbers. In 2017, he was appointed Research Professor at Oxford. Maynard is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022 and the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in 2023.
Jacob Tsimerman is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto specialising in number theory and related areas. He was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in the year 2015 in recognition for his work on the André–Oort conjecture and for his work in both analytic number theory and algebraic geometry.
Neena Gupta is a professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. Her primary fields of interest are commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry.
Kaisa Sofia Matomäki is a Finnish mathematician specializing in number theory. Since April 2023, she is a full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. Her research includes results on the distribution of multiplicative functions over short intervals of numbers; for instance, she showed that the values of the Möbius function are evenly divided between +1 and −1 over short intervals. These results, in turn, were among the tools used by Terence Tao to prove the Erdős discrepancy problem.
Maksym Radziwill is a Polish-Canadian mathematician specializing in number theory. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the Northwestern University.
Jack A. Thorne is a British mathematician working in number theory and arithmetic aspects of the Langlands program. He specialises in algebraic number theory.
Yifeng Liu is a Chinese professor of mathematics at Zhejiang University specializing in number theory, automorphic forms and arithmetic geometry.
Adam Harper is a mathematician specialising in number theory, particularly in analytic, combinatorial and probabilistic number theory. He is currently a professor at the University of Warwick, England. Harper was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2019 "for several outstanding contributions to analytic and probabilistic number theory."
Shai Evra is mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specialising in representation theory. He was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2020. His research concerns include symmetric spaces of arithmetic groups and their combinatoric, geometric, and topological structure.
William French Sawin is the Fernholz Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University specialising in number theory and algebraic geometry.
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".
Ruixiang Zhang is a mathematician specializing in Euclidean harmonic analysis, analytic number theory, geometry and additive combinatorics. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. He and collaborator Shaoming Guo of the University of Wisconsin proved a multivariable generalization of the central conjecture in Vinogradov's mean-value theorem. Zhang was awarded the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his contributions to mathematics.