SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

Sept. 28, 2024

Alexander Dunn has been awarded the prestigious 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.

About SASTRA Ramanujan Prize:

  • It was instituted in the year 2005.
  • It is awarded every year by the SASTRA University on its campus near Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, on Ramanujan’s birth anniversary, December 22.
  • Eligibility:
    • The prize is conferred annually to mathematicians from across the world who is less than 32 years of age, working in an area influenced by the Srinivasa Ramanujan.
    • The age limit is 32 years to commemorate the fact that Ramanujan accomplished a phenomenal body of work in this short span.
  • Cash prize:It carries a citation and an award of $10,000.
  • This award has gained global repute ever since it was instituted.
  • Other recipients:Manjul Bhargava and Akshay Venkatesh

Contribution of Dunn

  • Dunn is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to analytic number theory, particularly his joint work with Maksym Radziwill in solving the Kummer-Patterson Conjecture on bias related to cubic Gauss sums.
  • His work represents a significant breakthrough in the field.