Ritabrata Munshi

Ritabrata Munshi (born 14 September 1976) is an Bengali Indian mathematician specialising in number theory. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2015 in mathematical science category.[1] He is affiliated to Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Munshi obtained PhD degree from Princeton University in 2006 under the guidance of Andrew John Wiles.[2]

Ritabrata Munshi
Born14 September 1976 (age 44)
Alma mater
Occupation
Awards
Websitehttp://www.math.tifr.res.in/~rmunshi/
Scientific career
Institutions
Doctoral advisorAndrew Wiles

Munshi was awarded the Swarna-Jayanti fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 2012. He also received the B.M. Birla Science prize in 2013, and was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2016. For his outstanding contributions to analytic aspects of number theory, he was awarded the Infosys Prize 2017 in Mathematical Sciences.[3]

He serves in the editorial board of The Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society and the Hardy-Ramanujan journal.

In 8 November 2018 he was awarded the ICTP Ramanujan Prize in a ceremony held at the Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP.[4]

References
  1. "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. CSIR Human Resource Development Group, New Delhi. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  2. Ritabrata Munshi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2017 - Prof. Ritabrata Munshi". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  4. https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-ramanujan-prize/the-ramanujan-prize-winners/ramanujan-prize-winner-2018.aspx


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