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发帖数: 332 | 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
Chair, 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Committee | w***e
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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
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