Professor Neena Gupta hailing from Kolkata has been awarded with the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematician. It is one of the highest honors in mathematics. Neena Gupta is the fourth Indian to be honored with this award. Three of the four Indians who have received this award are faculty members at the Indian Statistical Institute
Neena Gupta is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Prof. Gupta has been awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries for her outstanding work in affine combinatorial algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. Prof. Gupta is the third woman to receive the Ramanujan Award since it was instituted in 2005.
Accomplishments of Professor Gupta
Indian National Science Academy awarded Young Scientists Award 2014 to Professor Gupta for her solution to the Zariski cancellation problem. It is a fundamental problem in Algebraic Geometry. Her solution was described as “one of the best works in algebraic geometry done anywhere in recent years.” In 1949, Oscar Zariski, one of the most illustrious creators of modern Algebraic Geometry, posed the problem.
About the Ramanujan Prize
Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in collaboration with the Indian Government’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Mathematical Union (IMU) grants the award to the young mathematicians.
The Ramanujan Prize is given every year to young eminent mathematician below 45 years of age, who has done outstanding research work in developing countries. The award is sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and administered by the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste.
