Narutaka Ozawa

Narutaka Ozawa (小沢登高, Ozawa Narutaka) (born 1974) is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in operator algebras and discrete groups. He has been a professor at Kyoto University since 2013. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1997 from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2000 from the same institution. One year later he received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Texas A&M University. He was selected for one of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships in 2005[1] and was an invited speaker at the 2006 ICM in Madrid. He has won numerous prizes including the Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) Spring Prize and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize. Before becoming a full professor at Kyoto University in 2013, he was an associate professor at the University of Tokyo and at University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Sloan Fellows". Physicalsciences.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "UCLA General Catalog 2009-2010 Mathematics Faculty Roster". Registrar.ucla.edu. Retrieved 8 December 2014.

References

  • Brown, Nathanial; Ozawa, Narutaka (2008), C*-Algebras and Finite-Dimensional Approximations, Providence: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-4381-9, MR 2391387
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