Daniel K. Nakano

Daniel Ken Nakano (born July 30, 1964) ^[1] is an American mathematician. Nakano is a Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia; he specializes in representation theory. ^[2]

Nakano was born in Seattle, Washington. ^[1] His parents are Japanese American, and he grew up in Kirkland, Washington. ^[3] Nakano graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, ^[1] and earned a doctorate in mathematics from Yale University in 1990 under the supervision of George B. Seligman with thesis Projective Modules over Lie Algebras of Cartan Type. ^{[1] [4]} After temporary positions at Auburn University and Northwestern University, he became an assistant professor at Utah State University in 1994 and moved to the University of Georgia in 2001. ^[1]

In 2010, Nakano was named Distinguished Research Professor. ^[1] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. ^[5]

In 2016, he received the Lamar Dodd Award Creative Research Award.

Publications

• Lie Algebras, Lie Superalgebras, Vertex Algebras and Related Topics, American Mathematical Society, (2016)

References

1. Curriculum vitae Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2015-01-24.
2. Five faculty members named inaugural AMS Fellows Archived 2015-01-01 at the Wayback Machine , U. Georgia Mathematics, retrieved 2015-01-24.
3. "Daniel Nakano". University of Georgia. 2019-04-07.
4. Daniel K. Nakano at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-24.