SASTRA stands for Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy. The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was founded by the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) located near Kumbakonam, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s hometown. The award is presented every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan’s fields of interest. The age limit is 32 (the age at which Ramanujan died), and the current award is $10,000.
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Winners
| Year | Name | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Manjul Bhargava Kannan Soundararajan | Princeton University University of Michigan |
| 2006 | Terence Tao | University of California at Los Angeles |
| 2007 | Ben Green | Cambridge University |
| 2008 | Akshay Venkatesh | Stanford University |
| 2009 | Kathrin Bringmann | University of Cologne, Germany, and University of Minnesota, USA |
| 2010 | Wei Zhang | Harvard University |
| 2011 | Roman Holowinsky | Ohio State University |
| 2012 | Zhiwei Yun | Stanford University |
| 2013 | Peter Scholze | University of Bonn |
| 2014 | James Maynard | Oxford University, England, and University of Montreal, Canada |
| 2015 | Jacob Tsimerman | University of Toronto, Canada |
| 2016 | Kaisa Matomäki Maksym Radziwill | University of Turku, Finland; McGill University, Canada, and Rutgers University, USA |
| 2017 | Maryna Viazovska | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2018 | Yifeng Liu Jack Thorne | Yale University, USA; Cambridge University, United Kingdom |
| 2019 | Adam Harper | University of Warwick, England (UK) |
| 2020 | Shai Evra | Princeton University, USA, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2021 | Will Sawin | Columbia University, USA |
| 2022 | Yunqing Tang | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 2023 | Ruixiang Zhang | University of California, Berkeley, USA |