The Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020 was awarded to Dr. Carolina Araujo in a virtual ceremony on December 2020.
Dr. Carolina Araujo
- Dr. Carolina Araujo is a Mathematician from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Dr. Araujo, who is Vice President of the Committee for Women in Mathematics at the International Mathematical Union, is the first non-Indian to receive this prize and will be a role model for all women.
- The award was given for her outstanding work in algebraic geometry. Her work area focuses on birational geometry, which aims to classify and describe the structure of algebraic varieties.
About Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians
- The Prize is given every year to young mathematicians less than 45 years of age who have conducted outstanding research in a developing country.
- The award has been instituted by Department of Science and Technology in the memory of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a genius in pure mathematics who was essentially self-taught and made spectacular contributions to elliptic functions, continued fractions, infinite series, and analytical theory of numbers.
