Ramanujan. The age limit has been set at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years. The prize is awarded each year at an international conference conducted by SASTRA in Kumbakonam, Ramanujan’s hometown, around Ramanujan’s birthday, December 22.

This prize was launched in 2005, based on the suggestion I made in December 2004 to the SASTRA Vice Chancellor, R. Sethuraman, when he offered to set apart $10,000 annually to honor Ramanujan’s memory suitably. I have had the privilege of being chair of the prize committee since 2005. The prize has won international acclaim and the many SASTRA laureates have gone on to win prizes with a hallowed tradition, such as the AMS Cole prize or the Fields Medal.

• 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  On Dec 20, 2005, The First SASTRA Ramanujan Prizes were awarded jointly awarded to Professors MANJUL BHARGAVA (Princeton University) and KANNAN SOUNDARARAJAN (University of Michigan).
• 2006 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2006 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor TERENCE TAO of the University of California
  at Los Angeles (UCLA).
• 2007 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2007 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor BEN GREEN of Cambridge University, England.
• 2008 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2008 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor AKSHAY VENKATESH of Stanford University.
• 2009 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2009 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor KATHRIN BRINGMANN of the University of Cologne, Germany and the University of Minnesota, USA.
• 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor WEI ZHANG of Harvard University.
• 2011 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2011 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor ROMAN HOLOWINSKY of the Ohio State University.
• 2012 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2012 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor ZHIWEI YUN of MIT and Stanford University.
• 2013 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2013 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Professor PETER SCHOLZE of the University of Bonn.
• 2014 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2014 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. JAMES MAYNARD of Oxford University, England and the University of Montreal, Canada.
• 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. JACOB TSIMERMAN of the University of Toronto, Canada.
• 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. KAISA MATOMÄKI of the University of Turku, Finland, and Dr. MAKSYM RADZIWILL of McGill University, Canada and Rutgers University.
• 2017 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2017 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. MARYNA VIAZOVSKA of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 2018 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2018 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. YIFENG LIU of Yale University and Dr. JACK THORNE of Cambridge University, England.
• 2019 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2019 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. ADAM HARPER of Warwick, England.
• 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. SHAI EVRA of Princeton University and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
• 2021 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2021 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. WILL SAWIN of Columbia University.
• 2022 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  The 2022 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Dr. YUNQING TANG of the University of California, Berkeley.

• Krishna Alladi’s article on SASTRA University and Ramanujan’s hometown
  For an article describing the events leading to the launching
  of the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, the prize ceremony, and the
  accomplishments of the winners, see Krishna Alladi’s article
• The First SASTRA Ramanujan Prizes
  Alladi’s article in The Hindu, India’s National Newspaper, on Tao’s SASTRA Prize Lecture.
• Photos of the 2006 SASTRA Prize Ceremony
  At the International Conference on Number Theory and Combinatorics in Kumbakonam, Ramanujan’s hometown.