Narutaka Ozawa

Narutaka Ozawa ( Japanese 小 沢 登高 , Ozawa Narutaka ; * 1974 ) is a Japanese mathematician who studies operator algebras and discrete groups. He is a professor at Kyoto University .

Ozawa studied at the University of Tokyo , where he received his doctorate in 2000 with Yasuyuki Kawahigashi ( Local Theory and Local Reflexivity for Operator Spaces ) and at Texas A&M University , where he received his doctorate in 2001 (with William B. Johnson , Gilles Pisier ). At Texas A&M, he received the Guseman Prize in 2000. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo and the University of California, Los Angeles . He has been a professor in Kyoto since 2013.

In 2009 he received the Spring Prize of the Japanese Mathematical Society and its Analysis Prize in 2006, the Operator Algebra Prize of Japan in 2008 and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize for Young Scientists in 2010. In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Amenable actions and applications ).

In 2005 he was a Sloan Fellow .

Fonts

• with Nathaniel Brown: C * -Algebras and finite dimensional approximatons , American Mathematical Society, Graduate Studies in Mathematics 88, 2008
• Amenable actions and exactness for discrete groups , Compte Rendu Acad. Sci. Paris, 330, 2000, 692-695
• Solid von Neumann algebras , Acta Mathematica, Volume 192, 2004, pp. 111-117
• with Sorin Popa : On a class factors with at most one Cartan subalgebra ${\displaystyle II_{1}}$ , 2 parts, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 172, 2010, pp. 713-749, American Journal of Mathematics, Volume 132, 2010, pp. 841-866
• Weak amenability of hyperbolic groups , in: Groups, Geometry an Dynamics, Volume 2, 2007, 271-280

Web links

• Homepage
• Narutaka Ozawa in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry 000000413377 in the Doctoral Dissertation Bibliographic Database of the National Institute of Informatics