Manjul Bhargava, professor of mathematics, has been selected as the recipient of two prestigious prizes in the field of mathematics.
He has received the Clay Research Award presented by the Clay
Mathematics Institute in Massachusetts. The annual award recognizes
major breakthroughs in mathematical research. Bhargava was cited for
his discovery of new composition laws for quadratic forms, and for his
work on the average size of ideal class groups.
Bhargava also has been selected as a winner of the SASTRA Ramanujan
Prize, instituted by the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and
Research Academy in India. The $10,000 award is presented to young
scholars for their outstanding contributions in the field of
mathematics. Bhargava is being recognized for his work in number
theory, notably his Ph.D. work that resulted in the discovery of higher
order composition laws.
Bhargava earned a Ph.D. from Princeton in 2001 and joined the faculty
in 2003. His primary research interests lie in number theory,
representation theory and algebraic geometry. He also won a Packard
Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 2004 and the AMS
Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Pure Mathematics in 2005, and
he was named one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10" in 2002.
