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Rajula Srivastava is an Indian mathematician whose work focuses on harmonic analysis and analytic number theory. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2025, she won the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for making a significant progress at the intersection of harmonic analysis and analytic number theory.[1]

Early Life and Education

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Srivastava completed her Integrated Master of Science at the National Institute of Science Education and Research in 2017.[2] She earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2022. Her thesis focused on Maximal functions on Heisenberg Groups, Cotlar type Theorems and Wavelets on Sobolev spaces under the supervision of Andreas Seeger.

Career and Research

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After completion of her PhD, she joined Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics as a Hirzebruch Research Instructor, mentored by Christoph Thiele. [3] She was also employed at the University of Edinburgh under the Argelander Mobility Grant from 2024-2025, mentored by Jonathan Hickman.

Srivastava's research focuses on the intersection of harmonic analysis and number theory.[4] Her research also has the geometrical flavor such as finding the number of rational points found near a given smooth surface of a manifold, which has applications in Diophantine approximation in higher dimensions.[3]

Awards and recognition

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In 2025, Srivastava received the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation which comes with a $50,000 prize. She was honored for her "contributions in harmonic analysis and analytic number theory".[1] She plans to donate a portion of the prize money to organizations in India that support children's education[2] She also received the 2023 AWM Dissertation Prize for her PhD dissertation.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Rajula Srivastava". Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
  2. ^ a b "Rajula Srivastava receives the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize". University of Bonn.
  3. ^ a b "Top-class award for mathematician". Universität Bonn.
  4. ^ "Rajula Srivastava awarded the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize". Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
  5. ^ "AWM Dissertation Prize 2023". Association for Women in Mathematics.