Narutaka OZAWA 

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• Born in Yokohama in 1974.
• Professor at Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Kyoto), since 2013.
• Editorial Boards:
  • Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 2011--present.
  • Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan, 2012--18.
  • Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2013--present.

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Tokyo, March 2000.
  • Adviser: Prof. Y. Kawahigashi
• Ph.D., Mathematics, Texas A&M University, May 2001.
  • Advisers: Prof. W.B. Johnson and Prof. G. Pisier

• Guseman Prize in Mathematics (for graduate students, Texas A&M University), 2000.
• ICM Invited Speaker (Operator Algebras and Functional Analysis), Madrid, 2006. (Daily News)
• Operator Algebra Prize of Japan, 2008.
• Spring Prize (for those under 40, Math. Soc. Japan), 2009.
• JSPS Prize (for young researchers, JSPS), 2010.
• Awards for Science and Technology (MEXT), 2021.

Research Interests

• Operator algebra theory: Working on both C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras, particularly in connection with group theory.
• Functional analytic group theory: Studying various aspects of groups by functional analysis methods.
• Quantum information theory: Hanging about Tsirelson's conjecture ( = Kirchberg's conjecture = Connes's embedding conjecture).

Recent Research Talks (Memento)

• Amenability for unitary groups of C*-algebras
  • C*-Algebras: Tensor Products, Approximation & Classification (Kirchberg Memorial), WWU Münster, July 2023.
  • Workshop on Operator Algebras and Applications: Groups and Group Actions, Fields Institute, October 2023.
• Sum of squares methods for operator algebras
  • YMC*A (4-hour minicourse), KU Leuven, August 2023.
• Embeddings of matrix algebras into uniform Roe algebras and quasi-local algebras
  • Kyoto Operator Algebra Seminar, Kyoto University, November 2023.
  • Semigroups, groupoids and C*-algebras, KIAS (Seoul), July 2024.
  • Group Operator Algebras: Classification, Structure and Rigidity, BIRS, September 2024.
  • Functional and Metric Analysis and their Interactions, IMAG (Granada), May 2025.
• Contractibility of the automorphism group of a von Neumann algebra
  • Operator Systems and their Applications, BIRS, February 2025.
  • Kyoto Operator Algebra Seminar, Kyoto University, June 2025.
  • The CJK Conference on Functional Analysis 2025, Seoul National University, July 2025.
  • C*-algebras, MFO, August 2025.

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