Narutaka Ozawa

{{Short description|Japanese mathematician (born 1974)}}

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{{Nihongo|Narutaka Ozawa|小沢登高|Ozawa Narutaka}} (born 1974) is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in operator algebras and discrete groups. He has been a professor at Kyoto University since 2013. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1997 from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2000 from the same institution. One year later he received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Texas A&M University. He was selected for one of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships in 2005{{cite web|url=http://www.physicalsciences.ucla.edu/index.php/research/honors-awards/43-sloan-fellows.html|title=Sloan Fellows|publisher=Physicalsciences.ucla.edu|accessdate=8 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811164323/http://www.physicalsciences.ucla.edu/index.php/research/honors-awards/43-sloan-fellows.html|archivedate=11 August 2014}} and was an invited speaker at the 2006 ICM in Madrid where he gave a talk on "Amenable actions and Applications".{{Citation | last=Ozawa | first=Narutaka | contribution=Amenable actions and applications | year = 2006 | title = Proceedings of the international congress of mathematicians (ICM), Madrid, Spain, August 22--30, 2006. Volume II: Invited lectures | publisher = Z\"urich: European Mathematical Society (EMS)| doi=10.4171/022-2/74 | contribution-url = http://www.ems-ph.org/doi/10.4171/022-2/74 | zbl=1104.46032}} He has won numerous prizes including the Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) Spring Prize and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize. Before becoming a full professor at Kyoto University in 2013, he was an associate professor at the University of Tokyo and at University of California, Los Angeles.{{cite web|url=http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/archive/catalog/2009-10/catalog/catalog09-10-499.htm|title=UCLA General Catalog 2009-2010 Mathematics Faculty Roster|publisher=Registrar.ucla.edu|accessdate=8 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025155407/http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/archive/catalog/2009-10/catalog/catalog09-10-499.htm|archive-date=25 October 2014|url-status=dead}}