CMI Research Fellow Peter Scholze has been awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2013. This annual prize was established in 2005 by SASTRA University is for very young mathematicians for outstanding contributions to areas influenced by Ramanujan.
Andrei Okounkov has joined the CMI's Scientific Advisory Board in succession to Gregory Margulis. Professor Okounkov is the Samuel Eilenberg Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University.
A recent paper on the complexity of the n-Queens Completion Problem by researchers at the University of St Andrews may point the way to a new attack on one of the Millennium Prize Problems, the