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 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][3] 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.[4]

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

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  1. ^ a b c d e 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 K. Nakano at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-24.