Finnish-Canadian duo to get Sastra-Ramanujan 2016 award
The age limit for the prize has been set at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years.
Thanjavur: The 2016 Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy (Sastra) University-Ramanujan Prize will be jointly awarded to Dr Kaisa Matomaki of the University of Turku, Finland, and Dr Maksym Radziwill of McGill University, Canada, and Rutgers University, USA, for their recent revolutionary collaborative work on multiplicative functions in short intervals.
The work has opened the door to a series of breakthroughs on some notoriously difficult questions such as the Erdös discrepancy problem and Chowla’s conjecture, previously believed to be well beyond reach.
The Sastra-Ramanujan Prize was established in 2005 and is awarded annually for outstanding contributions by young mathematicians to areas influenced by the Mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
The age limit for the prize has been set at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years. The prize will be awarded during December 21-22, 2016, at the International Conference on Number Theory at Sastra University in Kumbakonam (Ramanujan’s hometown) where the prize is given annually. Dr Matomäki and Dr Radziwill will share the $10,000 prize this year.
They are especially recognized for their spectacular collaboration, and also for their very significant individual contributions.
Kaisa Matomäki is one of the strongest young analytic number theorists in the world today, said a university release here on Wednesday.
She made a prominent entrance to the world stage during 2007-09 when she established a number of significant results, which are contained in about ten excellent research papers as well as in her outstanding Ph. D. thesis of 2009 submitted to the University of London under the direction of Professor Glyn Harman. Matomäki has about 30 first-rate publications on various central questions in number theory.
She also has several major collaborations with leading number theorists; her outstanding collaboration with Radziwill began in 2014. Maksym Radziwill is one of the “very best of the new generation of analytic number theorists”, added the university press release.