Hiraku Nakajima Receives 2003 AMS Cole Prize in Algebra

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January 16, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI---Hiraku Nakajima of Kyoto University is receiving the 2003 AMS Cole Prize in Algebra. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society, the Cole Prize in Algebra recognizes an outstanding research article published within the previous five years in the field of algebra. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor Nakajima is being honored for his work in representation theory and geometry, particularly for three papers: "Quiver varieties and Kac-Moody algebras" (Duke Mathematical Journal, 91(1998), 515-560), "Quiver varieties and finite dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras" (Journal of the AMS, 14(2001), 145-238), and "Heisenberg algebra and Hilbert schemes of points on projective surfaces" (Annals of Mathematics, 145(1997), 379-388).

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