Alexander Dunn (Georgia Tech) has been awarded the prestigious 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.
- This prize will be presented at the International Conference on Number Theory, which will take place from December 20-22, 2024, at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam, South India—Ramanujan’s hometown.
- Alexander 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.
About SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
- The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, established in 2005, is awarded annually to young mathematicians for their contributions to areas influenced by Ramanujan’s work.
- Previous recipients include renowned mathematicians such as Manjul Bhargava (2005), Terence Tao (2006), Akshay Venkatesh (2008), Peter Scholze (2013), James Maynard (2014), and Maryna Viazovska (2017).
