Hiraku Nakajima (

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: 中島啓 ''Nakajima Hiraku''; born November 30, 1962) is a Japanese

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, and a professor of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the

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. He will be

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president for the 2023–2026 term. He obtained his

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from the

in 1991. In 2002 he was plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in

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. He won the 2003 Cole Prize in algebra for his work on

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and

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. He proved Nekrasov's conjecture.

Biography

* 1985 - BA from the

* 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

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* 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

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* 2000 - Spring Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan * 2003 - Cole Prize in algebra of the

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* 2005 - JSPS prize of the

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* 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.''
Invent. Math. 97 (1989), no. 2, 313–349. *Hiraku Nakajima. ''Instantons on ALE spaces, quiver varieties, and Kac-Moody algebras.'' Duke Math. J. 76 (1994), no. 2, 365–416. *Hiraku Nakajima. ''Heisenberg algebra and Hilbert schemes of points on projective surfaces.'' Ann. of Math. (2) 145 (1997), no. 2, 379–388. , *Hiraku Nakajima. ''Quiver varieties and Kac-Moody algebras.'' Duke Math. J. 91 (1998), no. 3, 515–560. *Hiraku Nakajima. ''Quiver varieties and finite-dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras.'' J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001), no. 1, 145–238.

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* 1962 births Living people People from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese mathematicians 21st-century Japanese mathematicians Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Azabu High School alumni University of Tokyo alumni Tohoku University faculty University of Tokyo faculty Kyoto University faculty Presidents of the International Mathematical Union {{asia-mathematician-stub