Takurō Mochizuki (望月 拓郎, born 28 August 1972) is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University.
Overview
As a student at the University of Kyoto in 1994, Mochizuki left his undergraduate studies early to become a graduate student in mathematics at the same university. He completed his Ph.D. in 1999, and joined the faculty of Osaka City University, returning to Kyoto in 2004.
Awards
He was awarded the Japan Academy Prize in 2011 for his research on D-modules in algebraic analysis. In 2014 he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
Mochizuki was awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his work on "the theory of bundles with flat connections over algebraic varieties".
References
- ^ Professor Emeritus Masahiro Shogaito and Associate Professor Takuro Mochizuki of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Receive the Japan Academy Prize, Kyoto University, April 12, 2011, retrieved 2015-08-01.
- Japan Academy Prize to: Takuro Mochizuki (PDF), Japan Academy, retrieved 2015-08-01.
- "Schedule of Plenary Lectures", Seoul ICM 2014, archived from the original on 2015-07-16, retrieved 2015-08-01.
- "Winners of the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics announced". Retrieved 9 September 2020.
Further reading
- Sabbah, Claude (January 2012), "Théorie de Hodge et correspondance de Hitchin-Kobayashi sauvages (d'après T. Mochizuki)" (PDF), Séminaire Bourbaki (in French), 1050: 1–36, MR 3087348. Also in Astérisque No. 352 (2013), Exp. No. 1050, viii, 205–241, ISBN 978-2-85629-371-3.