Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI

• 25 March 2025: Mr. Shunsuke Miyauchi is to be awarded the Dean's Award for academic achievement for the academic year 2025 by The Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences.
• 27 Jan 2025: Dr. Koichi Tojo has been appointed as an associate professor at the Department of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Tokai University, scheduled to assume duty on 1st April 2025.
• 16 January 2025: Dr. Masatoshi Kitagawa (research fellow at the University of Tokyo) has been hired as a research fellow at the Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI), Kyushu University.
• 15 Oct 2024: Dr. Fanny Kassel has been awarded the Mathematics Medal from the French Académie des sciences.
• 27 Sept 2024: Mr. Tatsuro Hikawa has been appointed as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) of the academic year 2025.
• 2 Aug 2024: Dr. Kazuki Kannaka has been appointed as an assistant professor (on the tenure track) at Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, scheduled to assume duty on 1st Oct 2024.
• 21 Mar 2024: Dr. Víctor Pérez-Valdés (D3) has been selected as the valedictorian for the degree conferral ceremony at the University of Tokyo and is to be awarded the Dean's Award for academic achievement for the academic year 2024 by The Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences.
• 21 Mar 2024: Mr. Temma Aoyama (M2) is to be awarded the Dean's Award for academic achievement for the academic year 2024 by The Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences.
• 21 Mar 2024: Mr. Reiji Murakami (M2) is to be awarded the Dean's Award for academic achievement for the academic year 2024 by The Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences.
• 5 Feb 2024: Dr. Takashi Satomi has been appointed as a Special Research Fellow in Fundamental Science of the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) Program, scheduled to assume duty on 1st April 2024.
• 20 Dec 2023: Mr. Victor Perez (D3) has been appointed as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan (Standard) of the academic year 2024.
• 27 Sep 2023: Mr. Temma Aoyama (M2) has been appointed as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1) of the academic year 2024.
• 1 Sep 2023: French-Japanese Laboratory of Mathematics and its Interactions has been established by Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and The Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo. The signing ceremony for the establishment is on October 1st.
• 7 Apr 2023: Dr. Yoshiki Oshima has been selected as the recipient of the Young Scientist Award in the 2023 Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Commendations for Science and Technology in the field of science and technology.
• 26 Feb 2023: Dr. Atsumu Sasaki (associate professor at Tokai Univ.) has been offered a promotion to full professor, with a scheduled start date of 1 April 2023.
• 17 Feb 2023: Mr. Satomi Takashi (D3) has been awarded the Dean's Award for academic achievement for the academic year 2023 by The Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences.
• 22 Feb 2023: Dr. Taito Tauchi (Kyushu Univ.) has been offered a position as an assistant professor at Aoyama Gakuin University and is scheduled to assume the position on 1 April 2023.
• 25 Jan 2023: Dr. Yosuke Morita (Kyoto Univ.) has been offered a position as an associate professor at the faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University and is scheduled to assume the position on 1 April 2023.
• 20 Jan 2023: Dr. Hiroyoshi Tamori (Hokkaido Univ.) has been offered a position as an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, The College of Systems Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology and is scheduled to assume the position on 1 April 2023.
• 12 Sept 2022: Dr. Ryosuke Nakahama has been appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, commencing 1 October 2022.
• 15 Oct 2021: Dr. Yoshiki Oshima (associate professor at Osaka Univ.) has been appointed as an associate professor at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, commencing 1 April 2022.
• 1 Sept 2021: Dr. Yoshiki Oshima (Osaka Univ.) is to be awarded the 2021 MSJ Takebe Prize (ceremony on 15 Sept) for his work on "Analytic representation theory of semisimple Lie groups."
• 19 March 2021: Mr. Kazuki Kannaka (D3) made a speech in reply on behalf of the entire graduating class at the Diploma Presentation Ceremony at Yasuda Auditorium.
• 16 March 2021: Dr. Takayuki Okuda （lecturer at Hiroshima University） will be promoted to an associate professor (on the tenure track) at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering (Mathematics Program), Hiroshima University, commencing on 1 April 2021.
• 5 March 2021: Ms. Ayu Tabuchi won the School of Science Encouragement Award.
• 12 Feb 2021: Dr. Yohei Ito has been awarded the Dean's Award for academic achievement for the academic year 2020 by The Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences.
• 14 Dec 2020: Dr. Yuichiro Tanaka (nontenured assistant professor at the Univ. of Tokyo) has been appointed as a tenured assistant professor at the Univ. of Tokyo, commencing on 1 April 2021.
• 2 March 2020: The 25th Takagi Lectures are to be held at RIMS, Kyoto University on 21 June. (Postponed until 2021)
• 4 Nov 2019: Professor Yves Benoist has been awarded the 2019 du prix Léonid Frank.
• 14 Oct 2019: Professor Esther Duflo has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
• 5 Sept 2019: Prof. Birgit Speh is invited as the AMS-AWM Noether lecturer of 2018 AMS-MAA-SIAM Joint Mathematics Meeting in Denver, USA, January 16, 2020.
• 9 January 2019: Dr Jan Frahm (Erlangen University) will move to Aarhus University in August 2019.
• December 2018: Dr. Toshihisa Kubo is to be promoted to associated professor at Ryukoku University on 1st April.
• 1 September 2018: Dr. Michael Pevzner has been selected as Professor Exceptionale.
• August 2018: Dr. Fanny Kassel has been selected as an invited speaker at the ICM 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.
• June 2018: Dr. Masaaki Doi has been appointed as an associate professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Kyoto University School of Public Health.
• 22 November 2017 Professor Noriyuki Abe (Hokkaido Univ.) will join us at the Graduate School of Mathematics, the University of Tokyo, as Associate Professor, commencing on 1st April.
• 31 August 2017: Dr. Takayuki Okuda is to be awarded MSJ Takebe Katahiro Prise for his research on "Discontinuous groups and combinatorics of homogeneous spaces".
• 24 March 2016: Dr. Salma Nasrin has been appointed as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Dhaka, commencing 21 March 2016.
• 20 February 2015: Dr. Fanny Kassel has been awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal 2015.
• 16 February 2013: I am staying at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai to give Panorama Lectures as a Mathematics Year Event celebrating the 125th birthday of Ramanujan.
• 18 March 2011: Professor Yves Benoist is to be awarded Clay Research Award.
• 31 December 2010: Dr. Taro Yoshino has been appointed as an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, commencing 1 April.
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• 11-14 Dec 2024: Symmetry Breaking and Translation Functor. NCTS Workshop on Representation Theory and Lie Groups, Taiwan. [ full info ]
• 6-10 Jan 2025: Basic Questions in Group-Theoretic Analysis on Manifolds. Introductory school at CIRM (Marseille): Methods in representation theory and operator algebras, France. [ full info ]
• 13-17 Jan 2025: Branching in Representation Theory (three lectures). Minicourses: branching problems and symmetry-breaking, Institut Henri Poincaré, France. [ full info ]
• 20-24 Jan 2025: Hidden symmetry and spectral analysis on locally pseudo-Riemannian symmetry spaces. "Intertwining Operators and Geometry" during the thematic trimester "Representation Theory and Noncommutative Geometry," Institut Henri Poincaré, France. [ full info ]
• 11 Feb 2025: Symmetry Breaking under Translations. AIM-IHP seminar. Institut Henri Poincaré, France. [ full info ]
• 17 Feb 2025: Structure of Tempered Homogeneous Spaces. I. Dynamical Approach. Minicourses. Institut Henri Poincaré (Day 1 of the three lectures), France. [ full info ]
• 20 Feb 2025: Structure of Tempered Homogeneous Spaces. II. Combinatorics Approach. Minicourses. Institut Henri Poincaré (Day 2 of the three lectures), France. [ full info ]
• 21 Feb 2025: Structure of Tempered Homogeneous Spaces. III. Limit Algebras. Minicourses. Institut Henri Poincaré (Day 3 of the three lectures), France. [ full info ]
• 17 Mar 2025: Restricting Representations of Real Reductive Groups to Reductive Subgroups. Séminaire Groupes Réductifs et Formes Automorphes. Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, France. [ full info ]

• 21-25 Oct 2024: Geometry and Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces. Intensive lectures at Hiroshima University. [ full info ]
• 22 Oct 2024: Basic Questions in Group-Theoretic Analysis on Manifolds. Colloquium, Hiroshima University. [ full info ]

• International conferences (co)organized by T. Kobayashi

Related conferences

• 2025 winter: Complex Geometry and Representation Theory / Geometry and Topolpgy XH, Graduate course at The University of Tokyo. [ full info ]

• Course lecture list

• Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar

• Postdocs, former students & present students & visitors

• FJLMI (French-Japanese Laboratory of Mathematics and its Interactions) vice director (13 July 2023- )

• Global COE Program, The University of Tokyo (1 August 2008-31 March 2013) [ pamphlet ]

• Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Todai Institute for Advance Study (August 2009- ; principal investigator, June 2011-2022) [ profile (pdf) ]

• Editor in Chief, Japanese Journal of Mathematics (2005- )
• Editor, Geometriae Dedicata (2000- )
• Editor, International Mathematics Research Notices (2002- )
• Editor, International Journal of Mathematics (2004- )
• Editor, Kyoto Journal of Mathematics (2010- )
• Editor, Journal of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo (2007- )
• Editor, Advances in Pure and Applied Mathematics (2008- )
• Editor, Journal of Lie Theory, (2012- )
• Editor, Representation Theory (American Mathematical Society), (2015-2019)
• Editor, Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Amer. Math. Soc. (Feb 2016-Jan 2020)
• Editor, The Tunisian Journal of Mathematics (TJM) (MSP) (2017- )
• Editor, Special Issue of Masaki Kashiwara, Publ. RIMS (2017- )
• Editor of Kodaira Centennial Issue (2015)
• Editor in Chief, Journal of Mathematical Society of Japan (2002-2004; 2004-2006), Editor (1998-2006)
• Editor, Publications RIMS (2003-2007)
• Editor, International Mathematics Research Papers (2005-2008)

• Member, Science Council of Japan (2006-2008)
• Board of Trustees, Mathematical Society of Japan (2003-2005; 2005-2007)

• Organizer, Takagi Lectures (2006- )

Awards and academic honours

• Festschrift in honour of T. Kobayashi (2025)
• Conference in honour of T. Kobayashi (Tunisia, 2023) (2023)
• Conference in honour of T. Kobayashi (Tokyo, 2022) (2022)
• Conference in honour of T. Kobayashi (France, 2022) (2022)
• Doctorat Honoris Causa, l'université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (2022)
• MSJ Publication Prize (2019)
• AMS Fellow (2017)
• JMSJ Outstanding Paper Prize (2015)
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (2014)
• Group Actions (2013)
• Inoue Prize for Science (2010)
• Humboldt Research Award (2008)
• Sackler Distinguished Lecturer (2007)
• JSPS Prize (2007)
• Osaka Science Prize (2006)
• ICM 2002 (invited address)
• Spring Prize (1999)
• Takebe Prize (1997)

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  Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
  3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8914 Japan
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• (with F. Kassel) Poincaré series for non-Riemannian locally symmetric spaces, Advances in Mathematics 287 (2016), 123-236, Published online: 20-NOV-2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2015.08.029. arXiv: 1209.4075. [ full info ]
• A program for branching problems in the representation theory of real reductive groups, Representations of Lie Groups: In Honor of David A. Vogan, Jr. on his 60th Birthday (M. Nevins and P. Trapa, eds.), Progress in Mathematics, vol. 312, Birkhäuser, 2015, pp. 277-322, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23443-4_10. arXiv: 1509.08861. ISBN: 978331923442. [ full info ]
• (with T. Oshima) Finite multiplicity theorems for induction and restriction, Advances in Mathematics, 248 (2013), 921-944. [ full info ]
• (with G. Mano) The Schrödinger model for the minimal representation of the indefinite orthogonal group O(p,q), Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 212, no. 1000, vi+132 pp., (published online first, on 4 February 2011). [ full info ]
• Visible actions on symmetric spaces, Transformation Groups, 12 (2007), 671-694. [ full info ]
• (with G. Mano), The inversion formula and holomorphic extension of the minimal representation of the conformal group, in Harmonic Analysis, Group Representations, Automorphic Forms and Invariant Theory: In Honour of Roger E. Howe, Singapore University Press and World Scientific Publishing, 2007, pp. 159-223. [ full info ]
• (with T. Yoshino), Compact Clifford-Klein forms of symmetric spaces: revisited, Pure and Appl. Math. Quarterly 1 (2005), 603-684, Special Issue: In Memory of Professor Armand Borel. [ full info ]
• Multiplicity-free representations and visible actions on complex manifolds, Publ. RIMS 41 (2005), 497-549, special issue commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the founding of RIMS. [ full info ]
• (with B. Ørsted), Analysis on minimal representations of O(p,q), Part I — Realization and conformal geometry, Adv. Math. 180 (2003), 486-512 [ full info ]; Part II — Branching laws, Adv. Math. 180 (2003), 513-550 [ full info ]; Part III — Ultra-hyperbolic equations on R^p-1,q-1, Adv. Math. 180 (2003), 551-595. [ full info ]
• Branching problems of unitary representations, Proc. of ICM, Beijing 2002, 2 (2002), 615-627. [ full info ]
• Discrete decomposability of the restriction of A_q(λ) with respect to reductive subgroups III: restriction of Harish-Chandra modules and associated varieties, Inventiones Mathematicae 131 (1998), 229-256. [ full info ]
• Discrete decomposability of the restriction of A_q(λ) with respect to reductive subgroups II: micro-local analysis and asymptotic K-support, Annals of Math. 147 (1998), 709-729. [ full info ]
• Invariant measures on homogeneous manifolds of reductive type, J. reine und angew. Math. 490 (1997), 37-53. [ full info ]
• Discrete decomposability of the restriction of A_q(λ) with respect to reductive subgroups and its applications, Invent. Math. 117 (1994), 181-205. [ full info ]
• A necessary condition for the existence of compact Clifford-Klein forms of homogeneous spaces of reductive type, Duke Math. J. 67 (1992), 653-664. [ full info ]
• Proper action on a homogeneous space of reductive type, Math. Ann. 285 (1989), 249-263. [ full info ]

• T. Kobayashi, Learn Calculus, Expand Your Potentials [Jiriki wo tsukeru bibun to sekibun], Iwanami Shoten, 2024, 278 pp. [ full info ]
• T. Kobayashi and B. Speh. Symmetry Breaking for Representations of Rank One Orthogonal Groups II, Lecture Notes in Mathematics vol. 2234. Springer, 2018. xv+342 pp. [ full info ]
• T. Kobayashi, T. Kubo, and M. Pevzner. Conformal Symmetry Breaking Operators for Differential Forms on Spheres, Lecture Notes in Mathematics vol. 2170, Springer Singapore, 2016. ix+192 pp. [ full info ]
• T. Kobayashi and B. Speh, Symmetry breaking for representations of rank one orthogonal groups, vol. 238, Memoirs of American Mathematical Society, no. 1126, 2015, Published electronically May 12, 2015. 118 pp. [ full info ]
• T. Kobayashi and G. Mano, The Schrödinger model for the minimal representation of the indefinite orthogonal group O(p,q), Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 212, no. 1000, 2011, vi+132 pp. [ full info ]
• T. Kobayashi, Multiplicity-free theorems of the restrictions of unitary highest weight modules with respect to reductive symmetric pairs, in Representation Theory and Automorphic Forms (T. Kobayashi, W. Schmid, and J.-H. Yang, eds.), Progress in Mathematics 255, Birkhäuser, 2007. [ full info ]
• A. Borel, L. Ji, and T. Kobayashi, Lie Theory: Unitary Representations and Compactifications of Symmetric Spaces, (J.-P. Anker and B. Ørsted, eds.), Progress in Mathematics 229, Birkhäuser, 2005, 207 pp. [ full info ]
• T. Kobayashi and T. Oshima, Lie Groups and Representations, Iwanami, 2005, 610 pp (in Japanese). [ full info ]
• T. Kobayashi, Discontinuous groups for non-Riemannian homogeneous spaces, in Mathematics Unlimited — 2001 and Beyond (B. Engquist and W. Schmid, eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2000. [ full info ]
• T. Kobayashi, Singular Unitary Representations and Discrete Series for Indefinite Stiefel Manifolds U(p, q; F)/U(p -m, q; F), Memoirs of the Amer. Math. Soc. 462, 1992, 106 pp. [ full info ]

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• Conference in honor of Yves Benoist, Italy (2019)
• Conference in memory of Bertram Kostant, MIT, USA (2018)
• Conference in honor of Kirillov's 81th birthday, Reims, France (2017)
• The Kemeny lectures, Dartmouth College, USA (2017)
• 70th anniversary lecture (featured invited talk), MSJ Autumn Meeting, Japan (2016)
• Conference in honor of Paul F. Baum's 80th birthday, Toronto, Canada (2016)
• Conference in honor of R. Howe's 70th birthday, Yale, USA (2015)
• Conference in honor of D. Vogan's 60th birthday, MIT, USA (2014)
• Panorama Lectures in celebration of 125th birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan, India (2013)
• Colloquium Lorrain, France (2012)
• Conference in honor of M. Eastwood's 60th birthday, Vienna, Austria (2012)
• Conference in memory of Souriau, Aix-en-Provence, France (2012)
• Conference in honor of I. Frenkel's 60th birthday, Yale, USA (2012)
• Conference in honor of J. Wolf's 75th birthday, Bochum, Germany (2012)
• Conference in honor of Helgason's 85th birthday, Boston, USA (2012)
• Conference in honor of M. Ragnathan's 70th birthday, Tata, India (2011)
• Chern Centennial Conference, USA (2011)
• Colloquium, Chicago University, USA (2011)
• Oka Symposium, Japan (2010)
• Geometry and Quantum Theory, the Netherlands (2010)
• Conference in honor of J. Vargas' 60th birthday, Argentina (2009)
• Conference in honor of G. Zuckerman's 60th birthday, USA (2009)
• Mathematische Arbeitstagung, Germany (2009)
• Conference in honor of B. Ørsted's 60th birthday (opening lecture), Germany (2009)
• Colloquium, Yale University, USA (2009)
• Conference in honor of T. Oshima's 60th birthday, Japan (2009)
• Conference, Representations of Lie groups and applications, France (2008)
• The Monna Lectures, Netherlands (2008)
• Conference in honor of Jean-Louis Clerc, France (2008)
• Number Theory Seminar, Harvard University, USA (2008)
• Colloquium, Harvard University, USA (2008)
• Conference in honor of S. Helgason's 80th birthday, Iceland (2007)
• Conference in honor of T. Sunada's 60th birthday, Japan (2007)
• Conference at Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn (closing lecture), Germany (2007)
• Seminar Sophus Lie in honor of E. B. Vinberg's 70th birthday (opening lecture), Germany (2007)
• Summer Solstice Days, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, France (2007)
• Sackler Distinguished Lectures in Pure Mathematics, Israel (2007)
• Conference in honor of H. Abels, Germany (2006)
• Conference in honor of R. Howe's 60th birthday (opening lecture), Singapore (2006)
• Conference in honor of R. Parthasarathy's 60th birthday, India (2006)
• Asian Mathematical Congress, Singapore (2005)
• Seminar Sophus Lie in honor of Jacques Faraut, France (2005)
• Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians (plenary address), Tunisia (2004)
• Conference in honor of G. van Dijk's 65th birthday, Netherlands (2004)
• Conference, Lie groups and representation theory (closing lecture), Denmark (2004)
• ICM 2002, Beijing, China (2002)
• Winter School on Geometry and Physics, Czech Republic (2002)
• Conference on Integral Geometry at MSRI, Berkeley, USA (2001)
• Harvard University (series lectures), USA (2001)
• European School on Group Theory (series lectures), Denmark (2000)
• Summer Solstice Days, Université de Paris 6 & 7, France (1999)
• Annual meeting of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Spring Award), Japan (1999)
• Göttingen Colloquium, Germany (1999)
• Seminar Sophus Lie, Germany (1999)
• Round Table in Global Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry, Nancy, France (1998)
• Conference on Analysis on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces, Denmark (1997)
• The Gelfand Seminar, USA (1997)
• Summer Solstice Days, Université de Paris 6 & 7, France (1996)
• Annual Meeting of Swedish Mathematical Society, Lund, Sweden (1995)
• European School on Group Theory (series lectures), Denmark (1994)
• Workshop in honor of S. Helgason's 65th birthday, Denmark (1992)
• Conference ''75 years of Radon transform'', Vienna, Austria (1992)
• Colloquium at Columbia University, USA (1992)
• Conference on Harmonic analysis on Lie groups, Denmark (1991)

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