Chief Guest

Prof. Peter Sarnak

Peter Sarnak was born in 1953 in Johannesburg, South Africa and is currently Gopal Prasad Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, USA. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1975 and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University, USA in 1980. He was an Assistant Professor (1980–1983) and Associate Professor (1983) at New York University, USA. He then joined Stanford University, where he was an Associate Professor (1984–1987) and Professor (1987–1991). From 1991, he moved to Princeton University and was appointed H Fine Professor (1995–1996) and the Chair of Mathematics Department (1996–1999). He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1999–2002 and 2005–2007) and has been a professor there since 2007. He was also a Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (2001–2005) and was also appointed as Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University (2002). He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Prof. Sarnak is the recipient of several awards including the Shaw Prize (2024), the Sylvester Medal from the Royal Society (2021), and the Wolf Prize (2014).