Ritabrata Munshi (born 14 September 1976 in Calcutta (

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

), West Bengal) is an Indian mathematician specialising in

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777� ...

. He was awarded the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

, the highest science award in India, for the year 2015 in mathematical science category. He is known for his contributions to the sub-convexity problem for automorphic L-functions. In a series of papers published in 2015 he introduced a new approach, based on the circle method, and was able to establish sub-convex bounds for genuine degree three L-functions. Later he extended his method to the case of GL(3)xGL(2) Rankin-Selberg convolutions. These cases were earlier considered beyond the reach of known techniques. He is affiliated to

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the D ...

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, and the

Indian Statistical Institute Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta C ...

. Munshi obtained PhD degree from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

in 2006 under the guidance of Andrew John Wiles. After that he was a Hill Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University and worked with Henryk Iwaniec. During 2009–2010 he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Munshi was awarded the Swarna-Jayanti fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 2012. He also received the B.M. Birla Science prize in 2013, and was elected a fellow of the

Indian Academy of Sciences The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...

in 2016. For his outstanding contributions to analytic aspects of number theory, he was awarded the

Infosys Prize The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to re ...

2017 in Mathematical Sciences. On 8 November 2018 he was awarded the

ICTP Ramanujan Prize The DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries is a mathematics prize awarded annually by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy. The prize is named after the Indian mathematician Srinivas ...

in a ceremony held at the Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP. In 2018 he was an invited speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

(ICM). He was elected a fellow of the

Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology. In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Academ ...

in 2020. He serves in the editorial board of The Journal of the

Ramanujan Mathematical Society Ramanujan Mathematical Society is an Indian organisation of persons formed with the aim of "promoting mathematics at all levels". The Society was founded in 1985 and registered in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Professor G. Shankaranarayan ...

and the Hardy-Ramanujan journal.

References

External links

Munshi's home page

Interview of Ritabrata Munshi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Munshi, Ritabrata 1976 births Living people Indian number theorists Tata Institute of Fundamental Research faculty 21st-century Indian mathematicians Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science Scientists from Kolkata