Prof. Ye Tian, from AMSS was honored with the 2013 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries.

The prize is in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Number Theory. These include the completion of the proof of a multiplicity one conjecture for local theta correspondences and important work related to Heegner points and to the Brich and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture: the non-existence of points on twisted Fermat curves, and recently remarkable progress on the congruent number problem, showing the existence of infinitely many congruent numbers with arbitrarily many prime factors.

Prof. Ye Tian, got the Ph.D degree in 2003 from Columbia University, was honored with Morningside Silver Medal of Mathematics. His research interests are number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry.

The Ramanujan Prize was jointly established by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU), is for outstanding contributions by very young mathematicians to areas influenced by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The Prize consists of 15,000 US dollars and travel support to visit the ICTP to deliver and take part in the award ceremony.