Title of Presentation

“Joy and motivation of research in mathematics”

What is the charm of mathematics that attracts mathematicians? This is probably the question ordinary people have about mathematicians. Though people are not familiar with the objects of research in mathematics, they can still share the feeling mathematicians have toward them. There are common points in attitudes of researchers in other disciplines or even artists. A change of idea often brings a totally new view of a problem and sometime leads to the solution, which is a true joy of doing mathematics. In this talk, I will review my research life and explain about the joy and motivation of research in mathematics.

Profile

Web Site URL

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/list/MORI,%20Shigefumi.html

A brief Biography

Education:
1973	B.A., Kyoto University, Japan
1975	M.A., Kyoto University, Japan
1978	Dr. Sci., Kyoto University, Japan
Positions:
1975	Assistant, Kyoto University
1977 – 1980	Assistant Professor, Harvard University
1980	Lecturer, Nagoya University
1981 – 1982	Visiting Member, I.A.S., Princeton
1982	Associate Professor, Nagoya University
1985 – 1987	Visiting Professor, Columbia University
1988	Professor, Nagoya University
1990 – 2016	Professor, RIMS, Kyoto University
1991 – 1992	Visiting Professor, University of Utah
2011 – 2014	Director, RIMS, Kyoto University
2016 –	Distinguished Professor, Director-General, The Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study

Details of selected Awards and Honors

1983	Iyanaga Prize, the Mathematical Society of Japan
1984	Chunichi Cultural Prize
1989	Inoue Prize for Science
1990	Frank Nelson Cole Prize, American Mathematical Society
	Japan Academy Prize (with S. Iitaka and Y. Kawamata)
	Fields Prize, ICM at Kyoto, Japan
	Person of Cultural Merits, Japanese Government
1992	Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999	Member, the Japan Academy
2004	Fujihara Award

A list of selected Publications

Projective manifolds with ample tangent bundles, Ann. Math. 110(1979) 593–606.

Threefolds whose canonical bundles are not numerically effective, Ann. Math. 116 (1982) 133–176.

(with S. Mukai) Classification of Fano 3-folds with B2 ≥ 2, Manuscripta Math. 36 (1981) 147–162; Erratum 110 (2003) 407.

On 3-dimensional terminal singularities, Nagoya Math. J. 98 (1985) 43–66.

(with Y. Miyaoka) A numerical criterion of uniruledness, Ann. of Math. 124 (1986) 65–69.

Flip theorem and the existence of minimal models for 3-folds, Journal of the AMS 1 (1988) 117–253.

(with J. Koll ́ar and Y. Miyaoka) Rationally connected varieties, Journal of Alg. Geom. 1 (1992) 429–448.

(with S. Keel) Quotients by groupoids, Ann. of Math. 145 (1997) 193–213.

(with O. Fujino) A canonical bundle formula, J. Diff. Geom. 56(2000) 167–188.

(with Y. Prokhorov) On Q-conic bundles, Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci., 44 (2008) 315–369.