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 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 where he gave a talk on "Amenable actions and Applications".[2] 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.
mathematicianoperator algebrasdiscrete groupsKyoto UniversityUniversity of TokyoTexas A&M UniversitySloan Research FellowshipsUniversity of California, Los AngelesAmerican Mathematical Society