Invitation to the Ramanujan Prize Ceremony on Friday 9 November at 14:30

[ICTP Director]

Dear All,

Tomorrow, Friday 9 November at 14:30, ICTP will host the annual 
Ramanujan Prize ceremony, honoring this year's award recipient, 
Ritabrata Munshi of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India and 
the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

The prize is in recognition of Munshi's outstanding work in number 
theory, a branch of pure mathematics that studies properties of 
integers, or numbers that do not have a fractional part. In particular, 
the Prize cites Munshi's profound contributions to the study of analytic 
properties of L-functions and automorphic forms. The focus of his work 
is central to modern number theory, one that links arithmetic geometry, 
representation theory and complex analysis in many profound ways. Munshi 
has developed an ingenious method which produced a breakthrough in the 
field, going significantly beyond what was known before.

ICTP administers the Ramanujan Prize jointly with the Department of 
Science and Technology (DST, Government of India), and the International 
Mathematical Union (IMU).

The Prize Ceremony will take place in the Budinich Lecture Hall and will 
include a talk by Professor Munshi, a distinguished lecture by Professor 
Brian Conrey, and a special screening of the film "Salam - the first 
..... Nobel Laureate" in conjunction with the "World Science Day for 
Peace and Development".

A detailed programme is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8787/

The events will be livestreamed from the ICTP website.

Light refreshments will follow the events.

Looking forward to seeing you on this special occasion!

Director' Office, ICTP