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SASTRA PRIZE

The Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology, Research Academy (SASTRA), based in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India, has instituted the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize of $10,000 to be given annually to a mathematician not exceeding the age of 32 for outstanding contributions in an area of mathematics influenced by the late Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The age limit has been set at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years. The prize will be awarded each year at an international conference conducted by SASTRA in Kumbakonam, Ramanujan's hometown, around Ramanujan's birthday, December 22.

• 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  On Dec 20, 2005, The First SASTRA Ramanujan Prizes were awarded jointly awarded to Professors MANJUL BHARGAVA (Princeton University) and KANNAN SOUNDARARAJAN (University of Michigan).
   
• 2006 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2006 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor TERENCE TAO of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
   
• 2007 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2007 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Professor BEN GREEN of Cambridge University, England.

• Krishna Alladi's article on SASTRA University and Ramanujan's hometown.
   
• For an article describing the events leading to the launching of the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, the prize ceremony, and the accomplishments of the winners, see Krishna Alladi's article The First SASTRA Ramanujan Prizes.
   
• Alladi's article in The Hindu, India's National Newspaper, on Tao's SASTRA Prize Lecture.
   
• Photos of the 2006 SASTRA Prize Ceremony at the Int'l Conf on Number Theory and Combinatorics in Kumbakonam, Ramanujan's hometown.

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