CNTA XI :: Ribenboim Prize
Valentin Blomer of the University of Toronto and the University of Göttingen has been named the recipient of the 2010 Ribenboim Prize of the Canadian Number Theory Association.
The Ribenboim Prize, named in honour of Paulo Ribenboim, is awarded for distinguished research in Number Theory by a mathematician who is Canadian or has close connections to Canadian Mathematics. Previous winners are Andrew Granville (1999), Henri Darmon (2002), Michael Bennett (2004), Vinayak Vatsal (2006) and Adrian Iovita (2008). The 2010 award will be presented at the meeting CNTA XI, to be held July 11-16, 2010, at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Valentin Blomer has produced deep works across a broad spectrum of Analytic Number Theory. On the one hand, he has solved old questions requiring innovative developments of classical tools such as the Hardy-Littlewood method, sieve methods and the theory of quadratic forms. On the other hand, he has, both on his own and with P. Michel and G. Harcos, been at the forefront of the exciting recent breakthroughs in the analytic theory of automorphic forms. Some of his recent work, in collaboration with F. Brumley, extends to arbitrary number fields the best known bounds towards the Ramanujan conjecture for the groups GL(n) for n=2, 3, 4.