Hiraku Nakajima
Hiraku Nakajima (Japanese: 中 島 啓 Nakajima
Hiraku; born November 30, 1962) is a Japanese Hiraku Nakajima
mathematician, and a professor of the Kavli Institute Born November 30, 1962
for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the Tokyo
University of Tokyo. He is International Mathematical Nationality Japanese
Union president for the 2023–2026 term. Alma mater University of Tokyo
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in Awards Geometry Prize (1997)
1991. In 2002 he was plenary speaker at the Cole Prize (2003)
International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. Scientific career
He won the 2003 Cole Prize in algebra for his work on Fields Mathematics
representation theory and geometry. He proved
Institutions Kyoto University
Nekrasov's conjecture.
Research Institute for
Mathematical Sciences
Biography
1985 - BA from the University of Tokyo
1987 - MA from the University of Tokyo, and became a research associate at the University
of Tokyo
1991 - PhD from the University of Tokyo
1992 - Associate professor at Tohoku University
1995 - Associate professor at the University of Tokyo
1997 - Associate professor at Kyoto University
2000 - Full professor at Kyoto University
2018 - Full professor at Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Awards and prizes
1997 - Geometry Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan
2000 - Spring Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan
2003 - Cole Prize in algebra of the American Mathematical Society
2005 - JSPS prize of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2014 - Japan Academy Prize
Notable publications
Shigetoshi Bando, Atsushi Kasue, and Hiraku Nakajima. On a construction of coordinates at
infinity on manifolds with fast curvature decay and maximal volume growth. (http://www.digiz
eitschriften.de/dms/resolveppn/?PID=GDZPPN002106582) Invent. Math. 97 (1989), no. 2,
313–349. doi:10.1007/BF01389045 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF01389045)
Hiraku Nakajima. Instantons on ALE spaces, quiver varieties, and Kac-Moody algebras.
Duke Math. J. 76 (1994), no. 2, 365–416. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-94-07613-8 (https://doi.o
rg/10.1215%2FS0012-7094-94-07613-8)
Hiraku Nakajima. Heisenberg algebra and Hilbert schemes of points on projective surfaces.
Ann. of Math. (2) 145 (1997), no. 2, 379–388. doi:10.2307/2951818 (https://doi.org/10.230
7%2F2951818) , arXiv:alg-geom/9507012 (https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9507012)
Hiraku Nakajima. Quiver varieties and Kac-Moody algebras. Duke Math. J. 91 (1998), no. 3,
515–560. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-98-09120-7 (https://doi.org/10.1215%2FS0012-7094-98-
09120-7)
Hiraku Nakajima. Quiver varieties and finite-dimensional representations of quantum affine
algebras. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001), no. 1, 145–238. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-00-
00353-2 (https://doi.org/10.1090%2FS0894-0347-00-00353-2)
External links
Nakajima's homepage (https://web.archive.org/web/20081008102149/http://www.math.kyoto
-u.ac.jp/~nakajima/nakajima.html)
"2003 Cole Prize in Algebra" (https://www.ams.org/notices/200304/comm-cole.pdf) (PDF),
Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 50 (4): 468–469, 2003
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