Hiraku Nakajima (Japanese: 中島 啓Nakajima Hiraku; born November 30, 1962) is a Japanesemathematician, and a professor of theKavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at theUniversity of Tokyo. He isInternational Mathematical Union president for the 2023–2026 term.

He obtained hisPh.D. from theUniversity of Tokyo in 1991. In 2002 he was plenary speaker at theInternational Congress of Mathematicians inBeijing. He won the 2003Cole Prize in algebra for his work onrepresentation theory andgeometry. He provedNekrasov'sconjecture.

• 1985 - BA from theUniversity of Tokyo
• 1987 - MA from the University of Tokyo, and became a research associate at the University of Tokyo
• 1991 - PhD from the University of Tokyo
• 1992 - Associate professor atTohoku University
• 1995 - Associate professor at the University of Tokyo
• 1997 - Associate professor atKyoto University
• 2000 - Full professor at Kyoto University
• 2018 - Full professor atKavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

• 1997 -Geometry Prize of theMathematical Society of Japan
• 2000 -Spring Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan
• 2003 -Cole Prize in algebra of theAmerican Mathematical Society
• 2005 - JSPS prize of theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2014 -Japan Academy Prize

• Shigetoshi Bando, Atsushi Kasue, and Hiraku Nakajima.On a construction of coordinates at infinity on manifolds with fast curvature decay and maximal volume growth. Invent. Math. 97 (1989), no. 2, 313–349.doi:10.1007/BF01389045
• Hiraku Nakajima.Instantons on ALE spaces, quiver varieties, and Kac-Moody algebras. Duke Math. J. 76 (1994), no. 2, 365–416.doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-94-07613-8
• Hiraku Nakajima.Heisenberg algebra and Hilbert schemes of points on projective surfaces. Ann. of Math. (2) 145 (1997), no. 2, 379–388.doi:10.2307/2951818,arXiv:alg-geom/9507012
• Hiraku Nakajima.Quiver varieties and Kac-Moody algebras. Duke Math. J. 91 (1998), no. 3, 515–560.doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-98-09120-7
• Hiraku Nakajima.Quiver varieties and finite-dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001), no. 1, 145–238.doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-00-00353-2

• Nakajima's homepage
• "2003 Cole Prize in Algebra"(PDF),Notices of the American Mathematical Society,50 (4):468–469, 2003

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