The 2024 ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries has been awarded to Prof. Ruochuan Liu* of Peking University, China, in recognition "for his fundamental contributions to p-adic Hodge theory, especially his foundational study of relative p-adic Hodge theory and his remarkable work on rigidity and the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for p-adic local systems".
 
The 2024 ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize Ceremony will take place in the Budinich Lecture Hall at 14:00 hrs on Monday 9 December 2024, and will include an introduction by Professor Hélène Esnault, from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, followed by a lecture titled 'Riemann-Hilbert for p-adic varieties' by Prof. Ruochuan Liu.
 
Light refreshments will be served after the ceremony. A concert organised in partnership with Fondazione Bon will follow afterwards. More information will follow shortly along with the programme for the event.
 
The event will be livestreamed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-mOlbg_V9Q
 
ICTP administers the ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize jointly with the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The prize is awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country who is less than 45 years of age on 31 December of the year of the award, and who has conducted outstanding research in a developing country. Researchers working in any branch of the mathematical sciences are eligible.
 
For more details about the Prize, see: https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-dst-ictp-imu-ramanujan-prize.aspx
 
 
* Ruochuan Liu is a Distinguished Professor at Peking University. He earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Peking University and completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2008. Following his doctoral studies, he held postdoctoral positions at Université Paris Diderot, McGill University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Michigan. Liu returned to Peking University in 2012 and has since held faculty positions at the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research and the School of Mathematical Sciences. Liu has made a series of contributions in the fundamental theory and applications of p-adic Hodge theory: he has laid the foundation for relative p-adic Hodge theory; pioneered in non-abelian p-adic Hodge theory, resolved several longstanding conjectures in p-adic modular forms and introduced new methods in topological cyclic homology. In 2020, Liu was awarded a second prize of the State Natural Science Award of China.