Kengo Hirachi (平地健吾 ''Hirachi Kengo'', born 30 November 1964) is a Japanese mathematician, specializing in

CR geometry In mathematics, a CR manifold, or Cauchy–Riemann manifold, is a differentiable manifold together with a geometric structure modeled on that of a real hypersurface in a complex vector space, or more generally modeled on an edge of a wedge. Formal ...

and mathematical analysis. Hirachi received from

Osaka University The , abbreviated as UOsaka or , is a List of national universities in Japan, national research university in Osaka, Japan. The university traces its roots back to Edo period, Edo-era institutions Tekijuku (1838) and Kaitokudō, Kaitokudo (1724), ...

his B.S. in 1987, his M.S. in 1989, and his Dr.Sci., advised by Gen Komatsu, in 1994 with dissertation ''The second variation of the Bergman kernel for ellipsoids''. He was a research assistant from 1989 to 1996 and a lecturer from 1996 to 2000 at Osaka University. He was an associate professor from 2000 to 2010 and a full professor from 2010 to the present at the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

. He was a visiting professor at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute from October 1995 to September 1996, at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics from March 2004 to April 2004, at Princeton University from October 2004 to July 2005, and at the Institute for Advanced Study from January 2009 to April 2009.Curriculum Vitae, Kengo Hirachi, 2004
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Awards and honors

*Takebe Senior Prize (1999) of the Mathematical Society of Japan * Geometry Prize (2003) of the Mathematical Society of Japan *Stefan Bergman Prize (2006) *Inoue Prize for Science (2012) *Invited lecture at ICM, Seoul 2014

References

External links

Kengo Hirachi -- Bibliography, U. of Tokyo websiteICM2014 VideoSeries IL8.3 : Kengo Hirachi on Aug14Thu - YouTube
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