STARTING NOW: Invitation to Ramanujan Prize ceremony and related events: Friday 4 November 2016, ICTP-BLH

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Dear All,


On *Friday 4 November at 11.00*, ICTP will host the annual *Ramanujan 
Prize ceremony*, honoring this year's award recipient, Chenyang Xu of 
the International Center of Mathematical Research, Beijing, China. Xu 
will deliver his Ramanujan lecture on "Classification of Algebraic 
Varieties". The Prize Ceremony will be live-streamed from the ICTP website.

*At 16:00*, the festivities continue with a *public lecture* by Ken Ono, 
professor of mathematics at Emory University, Atlanta, USA. His talk is 
titled "Gems of Ramanujan and their Lasting Impact on Mathematics". Ken 
Ono is an associate producer and the mathematical consultant for the 
movie based on the life of Ramanujan titled "The Man Who Knew Infinity". 
The *movie* will be shown immediately following his lecture at *17:00*.

All activities take place in ICTP's Budinich Lecture Hall. Admission is 
free and open to all.

More details are available at: 
http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2016/10/ramanujanday.aspx

and in the attached poster.

All the ICTP Community is very warmly invited to attend.

Best regards,

Fernando Quevedo

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