Tomoyuki Arakawa

Tomoyuki Arakawa (Japanese: 荒川 知幸; born 22 May 1968) is a Japanese mathematician, mathematical physicist, and a professor at the RIMS of the Kyoto University. His research interests are representation theory and vertex algebras and he is known especially for the work in W-algebras. He obtained his PhD from the University of Nagoya in 1999. In 2018 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. He won the MSJ Autumn Prize in 2017 for his work on representation theory of W-algebras.