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prize awarded annually by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy. The prize is
named after the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It was founded in 2004, and was first
awarded in 2005.
Sujatha Ramdorai is an algebraic number theorist known for her work on Iwasawa theory.
Ramdorai became the first Indian to win the prestigious ICTP Ramanujan Prize in 2006. Dr.
Ramdorai initially worked in the areas of algebraic theory of quadratic forms and arithmetic
geometry of elliptic curves.
Neena Gupta is a professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical
Institute (ISI), Kolkata. Her work on the conjecture has earned her Abdus Salam ICTP's
Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries in 2021.