The 2012 Sastra Ramanujan Prize will be conferred on Professor Zhiwei Yun on December 22, the birth anniversary of mathematical genius Ramanujan, in New Delhi.
International conference
The award will be given away during the concluding ceremony of the International Conference on the legacy of Ramanujan, organised by the National Board of Higher Mathematics of India and co-sponsored by Sastra University and Delhi University.
Established in 2005, the Sastra Ramanujan Prize is awarded annually to young mathematicians for their outstanding contributions to areas influenced by Srinivasa Ramanujan.
The award is given only to those below the age of 32, the same as Ramanujan’s when he died.
Prof. Zhiwei Yun has made fundamental contributions to several areas that lie at the interface of representation theory, algebraic geometry and number theory, says a press release.
He has been invited to speak at the International Conference at Sastra University in Kumbakonam during December 14 to 16.
The release said Prof. Zhiwei Yun (30) has just completed a CLE Moore Instructorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will be taking up a faculty position at Stanford University in California.
