Associate Professor Kotaro Kawai

Kotaro Kawai

Associate Professor
Affiliation: BIMSA
Research Field: Differential Geometry
Office: A3-4-207
Email: kkawai@bimsa.cn

Biography

Kotaro Kawai got a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the university of Tokyo, and received his Ph.D from Tohoku university in 2013. He was an assistant professor at Gakushuin university in Japan, then he moved to BIMSA in 2022. His research interests are in differential geometry, focusing on manifolds with exceptional holonomy.

Education Experience

  • 2011 - 2013 | Tohoku University | Mathematics | Doctor | (Supervisor: Advisor: Professor Reiko Miyaoka)
  • 2007 - 2009 | University of Tokyo | Mathematical Sciences | Master
  • 2003 - 2007 | University of Tokyo | Mathematics | Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2022 - -- | BIMSA | Associate Professor
  • 2022 - -- | Osaka Metropolitan University | Postdoc Researcher
  • 2021 - 2022 | Osaka City University | Postdoc Researcher
  • 2017 - 2022 | Gakushuin University | Assistant Professor
  • 2014 - 2017 | University of Tokyo | JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD)
  • 2013 - 2014 | Tohoku University | JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD)
  • 2012 - 2013 | Tohoku University | JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)

Honors and Awards

  • 2013 | Kawai prize for Dr. thesis
  • 2013 | Aoba Society for the Promotion of Science Award

Publication

  • [1] Kotaro Kawai, Some observations on deformed Donaldson-Thomas connections, accepted by Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) (2023)
  • [2] Kotaro Kawai, On deformed Donaldson-Thomas connections, RIMS Koukyuroku, 2239, 98-107 (2023)
  • [3] Kotaro Kawai, A monotonicity formula for minimal connections, accepted by Adv. Math. (2023)
  • [4] K. Kawai, H. Yamamoto, Deformation theory of deformed Hermitian Yang-Mills connections and deformed Donaldson-Thomas connections, J. Geom. Anal., 32(5), Paper No. 157 (2022)
  • [5] K. Kawai and H. Yamamoto, “Mirror of volume functionals on manifolds with special holonomy”, Adv. Math. 405 (2022), Paper No. 108515.
  • [6] K Kawai, H Yamamoto, Mirror of volume functionals on manifolds with special holonomy, Advances in Mathematics, 405, 108515 (2022)
  • [7] K Kawai, H Yamamoto, Deformation theory of deformed Hermitian Yang–Mills connections and deformed Donaldson–Thomas connections, The Journal of Geometric Analysis, 32(5), 157 (2022)
  • [8] D. Fiorenza, K. Kawai, H. V. Lˆe, L. Schwachh¨ofer, Almost formality of manifolds of low dimension, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5), XXII, 79–107 (2021)
  • [9] K. Kawai, H. Yamamoto, Deformation theory of deformed Donaldson–Thomas connections for Spin(7)-manifolds, J. Geom. Anal., 31, 12098–12154 (2021)
  • [10] K. Kawai, H. Yamamoto, The real Fourier–Mukai transform of Cayley cycles, Pure Appl. Math. Q., 17(5), 1861–1898 (2021)
  • [11] K. Kawai, Conformal transformations of the pseudo-Riemannian metric of a homogeneous pair, J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2), 103, 516–557 (2021)
  • [12] K Kawai, Conformal transformations of the pseudo‐Riemannian metric of a homogeneous pair, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 103(2), 516-557 (2021)
  • [13] K Kawai, H Yamamoto, The real Fourier-Mukai transform of Cayley cycles, arXiv (2021)
  • [14] K Kawai, H Yamamoto, Deformation Theory of Deformed Donaldson–Thomas Connections for$Spin(7)$-manifolds, The Journal of Geometric Analysis, 31(12), 12098-12154 (2021)
  • [15] K. Kawai, H. V. Lˆe, L. Schwachh¨ofer, Fr¨olicher-Nijenhuis bracket on manifolds with special holonomy, Fields Institute Communications, 84, 201–215 (2020)
  • [16] K Kawai, H Vân Lê, L Schwachhöfer, Frölicher–Nijenhuis Bracket on Manifolds with Special Holonomy, Lectures and Surveys on G2-Manifolds and Related Topics, 201-215 (2020)
  • [17] K. Kawai, Second-order deformations of associative submanifolds in nearly parallel G2-manifolds, Q. J. Math., 69, 241–270 (2018)
  • [18] K. Kawai, H. V. Lˆe and L. Schwachh¨ofer, “The Fr¨olicher-Nijenhuis bracket and the geometry of G2- and Spin(7)-manifolds”, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. 197 (2018), 411–432.
  • [19] K.Kawai, H. V. Lˆe, L. Schwachh¨ofer, Fr¨olicher-Nijenhuis cohomology on G2- and Spin(7)-manifolds, Internat. J. Math., 29, 1850075. (2018)
  • [20] K. Kawai, Cohomogeneity One Coassociative Submanifolds in the Bundle of Anti-self-dual 2-forms over the 4-sphere, Comm. Anal. Geom., 26(1), 361–409 (2018)
  • [21] K Kawai, HV Lê, L Schwachhöfer, Frölicher–Nijenhuis cohomology on$G2$- and$Spin(7)$-manifolds, International Journal of Mathematics, 29(12), 1850075 (2018)
  • [22] K Kawai, Second-Order deformations of associative submanifolds in nearly parallel-manifolds, The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 69(1), 241-270 (2018)
  • [23] K Kawai, HV Lê, L Schwachhöfer, The Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket and the geometry of$G2$-and Spin(7)-manifolds, Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata (1923-), 197(2), 411-432 (2018)
  • [24] K. Kawai, Deformations of homogeneous associative submanifolds in nearly parallel G2-manifolds, Asian J. Math., 21(2), 429–462 (2017)
  • [25] K. Kawai, Stabilities of affine Legendrian submanifolds and their moduli spaces, Differential Geom. Appl., 47, 159–189 (2016)
  • [26] K. Kawai, Calibrated submanifolds and reductions of G2-manifolds, Osaka J. Math., 52(1), 93–116 (2015)
  • [27] K. Kawai, Some associative submanifolds of the squashed 7-sphere, Q. J. Math., 66(4), 861–893 (2015)
  • [28] K Kawai, Calibrated submanifolds and reductions of$G_{2}$-manifolds (2015)
  • [29] K. Kawai, Construction of Coassociative Submanifolds, Real and Complex Submanifolds(497–503) (2014)
  • [30] K. Kawai, Construction of coassociative sumanifolds, RIMS Koukyuroku, 1880, 23–31 (2014)
  • [31] K Kawai, Deformations of homogeneous associative submanifolds in nearly parallel$G_{2}$-manifolds, arXiv (2014)
  • [32] K. Kawai, Deformations of associative submanifolds in nearly parallel G2-manifolds, Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Differential Geometry and the 7th KNUGRGOCAMI Differential Geometry Workshop 17, 107–112 (2013)
  • [33] K Kawai, Construction of coassociative submanifolds in R^ 7 and Λ− 2 S 4 with symmetries, arXiv (2013)
  • [34] K. Kawai, “Torus invariant special Lagrangian submanifolds in the canonical bundle of toric positive K¨ahler Einstein manifolds”, Kodai Math. J. 34 (2011) 519–535.
  • [35] K Kawai, Torus invariant special Lagrangian submanifolds in the canonical bundle of toric positive Kähler Einstein manifolds, Kodai Mathematical Journal, 34(3), 519-535 (2011)
  • [36] K. Kawai and H. Yamamoto, Deformation theory of deformed Hermitian Yang–Mills connections on a complex submanifold, accepted by ASPM volume of the 13th MSJ-SI proceedings “Differential Geometry and Integrable Systems”
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