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Professor Xu Chenyang awarded the 2016 ICTP Ramanujan Prize
Nov 23, 2016
Peking University, November 20, 2016: On November 4, 2016, the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) held a prize ceremony, a lecture and a movie in memory of the famous Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Professor Xu Chenyang, currently working at the International Center of Mathematical Research at Peking University, was awarded the 2016 ICTP Ramanujan Prize by Director Fernando Quevedo and Stefano Luzzatto, Chair of the selection committee this year.

 
Later, Xu delivered his Ramanujan lecture on "Classification of Algebraic Varieties".
 
The ICTP Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries is a mathematics prize awarded annually by the International Center for Theoretical Physics and named after the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It was founded in 2004, and was first awarded in 2005. Xu Chenyang was the winner of the ICTP Ramanujan Prize for this year, "in recognition of Xu's outstanding works in algebraic geometry, notably in the area of birational geometry, including works both on log canonical pairs and on Q-Fano varieties, and on the topology of singularities and their dual complexes." Many of his papers have been published in top journals recognized by the international mathematical community, including Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae, Journal of the American Mathematical Society and so on.
 
The award also recognizes Xu’s contribution to the strengthening of the subject of algebraic geometry in China.
 
Written by: You Danqian
Edited by: Xu Liangdi
Source: PKU News (in Chinese)
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