Awards and academic honours
Festschrift in Honour of Toshiyuki Kobayashi, 3 volumes, Progress in Mathematics (2025)
Symmetry in Geometry and Analysis, Festschrift in Honor of Toshiyuki Kobayashi.
Birkhäuser/Springer, 2025.
Conference in honour of T. Kobayashi (Tunisia, 2023)
7th Tunisian-Japanese Conference: Geometric and Harmonic Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces and Applications in Honor of Professor Toshiyuki Kobayashi.
Monastir, Tunisia,
October 31-November 4, 2023.
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Conference in honour of T. Kobayashi (Tokyo, 2022)
Geometry, Analysis, and Representation Theory of Lie Groups: In honour of Prof. Toshiyuki Kobayashi's birthday.
The University of Tokyo, Japan,
September 5-9, 2022.
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Conference in honour of T. Kobayashi (France, 2022)
Symmetry in Geometry and Analysis: Conference in honor of the 60th birthday of Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI.
Reims University, France,
June 7-11, 2022.
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Doctorat Honoris Causa, l'universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France (2022)
MSJ Publication Prize (2019)
T. Saito, Y. Kawahigashi, and T. Kobayashi (eds.),
Creating Mathematics [Sugaku no Genzai] e /
π /
i,
University of Tokyo Press
AMS Fellow (2017)
Contribution to Structure Theory and Representation Theory of Reductive Lie Groups
JMSJ Outstanding Paper Prize (2015)
J. Hilgert, T. Kobayashi and J. Möllers, Minimal representations via
Bessel operators,
J. Math. Soc. Japan 66 (2014), 349-414.
DOI: 10.2969/jmsj/06620349.
Medal with Purple Ribbon (2014)
Conference in honour of T. Kobayashi 50th birthday (2013)
Inoue Prize for Science (2010)
awarded by the Inoue Foundation for Science
for his analysis on infinite dimensional symmetries.
Humboldt Research Award (2008)
awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
for his opening up several new fields in mathematics, including the theory of discrete breaking symmetries, discontinuous group theory beyond the classical Riemannian setting, and the theory of visible action on complex manifolds.
- Citation by Toshitake Kohno, Sugaku-Tsushin, Math. Soc. Japan, vol.13, no.3 (in Japanese, pdf)
- Citation by the School of Science, the University of Tokyo
- Harvard University Gazette
- For Communication across the UT, The Universiy of Tokyo (in Japanese)
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Gazette, The University of Tokyo (in Japanese, pdf)
- Suri News, the University of Tokyo (in Japanese, pdf)
- photo at the award ceremony
Sackler Distinguished Lecturer (2007)
Branching Problems of Unitary Representations (2 lectures),
Sackler Distinguished Lectures in Pure Mathematics,
Tel Aviv University, Israel, 7 & 9 May 2007.
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JSPS Prize (2007)
awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
for his theory of Lie groups—their infinite dimensional representations and discontinuous groups.
- Citation by JSPS (in Japanese, pdf)
- Citation by Toshio Oshima, Sugaku-Tsushin, Math. Soc. Japan, vol.11, no.4 (in Japanese, pdf)
- Discoveries at the age of twenty-five, and mathematics expanding beyond oneself, Japanese Scientific Monthly, vol.60, no.5 (an essay by T. Kobayashi, in Japanese)
- photo at the prizegiving ceremony
Osaka Science Prize (2006)
awarded by Osaka Prefecture, Osaka City and Osaka Science & Technology Center
for his discovery of the theory of discontinuous groups beyond Riemannian geometry, and discovery of the theory of discretely decomposable branching laws for infinite dimensional representations.
ICM 2002 (invited address)
Branching Problems of Unitary Representations, International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2002), Beijing, China, 20-28 August 2002.
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Spring Prize (1999)
awarded by the Mathematical Society of Japan
for his theory of branching laws of unitary representations.
- Citation by Toshio Oshima and Takayuki Oda, Sugaku, Math. Soc. Japan, vol.51, no.4 (in Japanese, pdf)
- Citation by Yukihiko Namikawa, Sugaku, Math. Soc. Japan, vol.51, no.4 (in Japanese, pdf)
- Theory of discrete decomposable branching laws of unitary representations of semisimple Lie groups and some applications, Sugaku, Math. Soc. Japan, vol.51, no.4 (an expository article based on the Award Lecture by T. Kobayashi, in Japanese) and its English translation, Sugaku Expositions, vol.18, AMS
Takebe Prize (1997)
awarded by the Mathematical Society of Japan
for his non-commutative harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces.
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