Professor Neena Gupta*, a mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, was awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries. Professor Gupta received the Prize for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, in particular for her solution of the Zariski cancellation problem for affine spaces. The DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize committee, composed of eminent mathematicians from around the world, commented that Gupta's work "shows impressive algebraic skill and inventiveness". ICTP administers the DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize jointly with the Department of Science and Technology (DST, Government of India), and 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. The 2021 Prize Ceremony will be an integral part of a day dedicated to Srinivasa Ramanujan, with a talk by the Prize winner, Professor Gupta, on "Ga-Actions and their Applications". The events will take place in the Budinich Lecture Hall on the ICTP Campus, as well as online. The celebrations will also include a special lecture by Prof. Don Zagier, Ramanujan International Chair, on "Ramanujan and the Partition Function".
