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12/12/20 10:50 AM IST

Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020

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Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020 awarded to Dr. Carolina Araujo from Brazil for outstanding work in Algebraic Geometry.
Work area focuses on birational geometry, which aims to classify and describe the structure of algebraic varieties.

She is the first non-Indian to receive this prize and will be a role model for all women.

About the award
  • The prize awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country
  • It is funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India in collaboration with ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics), and the International Mathematical Union was given for her outstanding work in algebraic geometry.
  • The Prize, given every year to young mathematicians less than 45 years of age who have conducted outstanding research in a developing country.
Source: PIB

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