Toshiyuki Kobayashi
Toshiyuki Kobayashi is a Japanese mathematician
known for his original work in the field of Lie theory, and in
particular for the
theory of discontinuous groups
and the application of geometric analysis to representation theory. He was a major developer in
particular of the theory of discontinuous groups for
non-Riemannian homogeneous spaces and
the theory of discrete breaking symmetry in unitary representation theory.
He has been a member of the Science Council of Japan since 2006,
Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Society of Japan,
the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan
, and currently is the Managing Editor of the Japanese Journal of Mathematics since 2006.
Academic career
- Ph.D./Doctor of Science, 1990, University of Tokyo
- Assistant Professor, 1987–1991, Associate Professor, 1991–2001, University of Tokyo
- Associate Professor, 2001–2003, RIMS, Kyoto University
- Full Professor, 2003–2007, RIMS, Kyoto University
- Full Professor, 2007-, University of Tokyo
- Principal Investigator, 2011-, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden, Université de Paris, Université de Paris VI, France, Harvard University, USA, Université de Paris VII, France
, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, Germany, IHES, France, Jubilee Professorship, Chalmers University, Sweden and Yale University
Awards and honors
- 1997 - Takebe Prize, The Mathematical Society of Japan
- 1999 - Spring Prize, The Mathematical Society of Japan
- 2006 - Osaka Science Prize
- 2006/2007 - Sackler Distinguished Lecturer
- 2007 -, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2008 - The Humboldt Prize
- 2011 -
- 2014 - Medal with Purple Ribbon, Japan
- 2015 -
- 2017 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to the structure and representation theory of reductive Lie groups".
- 2022 - Doctorat Honoris Causa, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
Selected publications
;Journal articles;Books
- Kobayashi, T. Discontinuous groups for non-Riemannian homogeneous spaces. In: B. Engquist and W. Schmid, editors, Mathematics Unlimited - 2001 and Beyond, pages 723-747. Springer-Verlag, 2001..