SASTRA-Ramanujan award for Oxford scholar

KUMBAKONAM (TAMIL NADU): Professor James Maynard of Oxford University and the University of Montreal, Canada was today conferred the SASTRA-Ramanujan Award 2014.

The annual award, established in 2005 to honour young mathematicians for outstanding contributions in the areas influenced by mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, was presented to him at a function at the SASTRA campus here.

Maynard was chosen for the award, which carries a cash prize of $10,000 along with a citation, in recognition of his advances on various long-standing problems on prime numbers and for the ingenious techniques he has introduced which will influence future researches in the field.

Later, a two-day International Conference on Number Theory was inaugurated by noted scholar Dr Mangalam Srinivasan as part of events lined up coinciding with the birth anniversary of Ramanujan, which falls tomorrow.

Scholars from several parts of the country along with the US, UK, Canada and Turkey are attending the conference, a release said.