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发帖数: 54 | 1 WEI ZHANG TO RECEIVE 2010 SASTRA RAMANUJAN PRIZE
http://www.math.ufl.edu/sastra-prize/2010.html
The 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Wei Zhang, who is now a
Benjamin Pierce Instructor at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard
University, USA. This annual prize which was established in 2005, is for
outstanding contributions by very young mathematicians to areas influenced
by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The age limit for the prize has been set
at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years. The
$10,000 prize will be awarded at the International Conference on Number
Theory and Automorphic Forms at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam, India (
Ramanujan's hometown) on December 22, Ramanujan's birthday.
Dr. Wei Zhang has made far reaching contributions by himself and in
collaboration with others to a broad range of areas in mathematics including
number theory, automorphic forms, L-functions, trace formulas,
representation theory and algebraic geometry. We highlight some of his path-
breaking contributions: In 1997, Steve Kudla constructed a family of cycles
on Shimura varieties and conjectured that their generating functions are
actually Siegel modular forms. The proof of this conjecture for Kudla cycles
of codimension 1 is a major theorem of the Fields Medalist Borcherds. In
his PhD thesis, written under the direction of Professor Shou Wu Zhang at
Columbia University, New York, Wei Zhang established conditionally, among
other things, a generalization of the results of Borcherds to higher
dimensions, and in that process essentially settled the Kudla conjecture.
His thesis, written when he was just a second year graduate student, also
extended earlier fundamental work of Hirzebruch-Zagier and of Gross-Kohnen-
Zagier. The thesis opened up major lines of research and led to significant
collaboration with Xinyi Yuan and his PhD advisor Shouwu Zhang. In the first
of a series of joint papers (published in Compositio in 2009), the results
of Wei Zhang's important thesis are generalized to totally real fields.
In a paper on heights of CM points in Shimura varieties, Wei Zhang along
with Shou Wu Zhang and Xinyi Yuan establish an arithmetic analogue of a
theorem of Waldspurger that connects integral periods to special values of L
-functions. This paper which goes well beyond all earlier work on formulas
of Gross-Zagier type will appear in the book series Annals of Mathematical
Studies, Princeton.
Yet another outstanding contribution of Wei Zhang is conveyed in his two
recent preprints - one on relative trace formulas and the Gross--Prasad
conjecture and another on arithmetic fundamental lemmas. In these works he
has made decisive progress on certain general conjectures related to the
arithmetic intersection of Shimura varieties; in that process he has
successfully transposed major techniques due to Jacquet and Rallis into an
arithmetic intersection theory setting. With these two preprints and his
seminal earlier work, Dr. Wei Zhang has emerged as a worldwide leader in his
field.
Wei Zhang who hails from the People's Republic of China, was born on July 18
, 1981. After obtaining a Bachelor's degree from Beijing University in 2004,
he joined Columbia University to do his PhD. Even as a first year graduate
student, while attending the NSF Focused Group Workshop at the University of
Maryland in 2005, when he heard about the Kudla Conjecture, he started
pursuing it. In just one year, he not only understood the conjecture, but
also found an ingenious proof. Thus he shot to prominence very rapidly.
After completing his PhD in 2009 at Columbia University under the
supervision of Professor Shou Wu Zhang, he went to Harvard University where
he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2009-10, and currently holds the
prestigious Benjamin Pierce Lectureship. At this very young age of 29, Dr.
Zhang has made a profound influence in a wide range of areas in mathematics.
Wei Zhang was the unanimous choice of the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Committee
to receive the award this year. The international panel of experts who
formed the 2010 Committee were: Chair - Krishnaswami Alladi (University of
Florida), Dorian Goldfeld (Columbia University), Christian Krattenthaler (
University of Vienna), Ken Ono (Emory University), Wolfgang Schmidt (
University of Colorado), Jeffrey Vaaler (University of Texas, Austin), and
Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University).
Previous winners of the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize are Manjul Bhargava and
Kannan Soundararajan in 2005 (two prizes), Terence Tao in 2006, Ben Green in
2007, Akshay Venkatesh in 2008, and Kathrin Bringmann in 2009. Thus Wei
Zhang joins this impressive list of brilliant mathematicians who have made
monumental contributions at a very young age.
Krishnaswami Alladi
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: WEI ZHANG TO RECEIVE 2010 SASTRA RAMANUJAN PRIZE
: http://www.math.ufl.edu/sastra-prize/2010.html
: The 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Wei Zhang, who is now a
: Benjamin Pierce Instructor at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard
: University, USA. This annual prize which was established in 2005, is for
: outstanding contributions by very young mathematicians to areas influenced
: by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The age limit for the prize has been set
: at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years. The
: $10,000 prize will be awarded at the International Conference on Number
: Theory and Automorphic Forms at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam, India (
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【在 n*********y 的大作中提到】
: WEI ZHANG TO RECEIVE 2010 SASTRA RAMANUJAN PRIZE
: http://www.math.ufl.edu/sastra-prize/2010.html
: The 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Wei Zhang, who is now a
: Benjamin Pierce Instructor at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard
: University, USA. This annual prize which was established in 2005, is for
: outstanding contributions by very young mathematicians to areas influenced
: by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The age limit for the prize has been set
: at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years. The
: $10,000 prize will be awarded at the International Conference on Number
: Theory and Automorphic Forms at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam, India (
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【在 n*********y 的大作中提到】
: WEI ZHANG TO RECEIVE 2010 SASTRA RAMANUJAN PRIZE
: http://www.math.ufl.edu/sastra-prize/2010.html
: The 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Wei Zhang, who is now a
: Benjamin Pierce Instructor at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard
: University, USA. This annual prize which was established in 2005, is for
: outstanding contributions by very young mathematicians to areas influenced
: by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The age limit for the prize has been set
: at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years. The
: $10,000 prize will be awarded at the International Conference on Number
: Theory and Automorphic Forms at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam, India (
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