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The Inamori Foundation is pleased to announce the 2024 Kyoto Prize laureates at around 15:00 (JST) on June 14. The press conference is going to be live streamed on the Kyoto Prize YouTube channel. Please join us online!
On May 7 and 8, the “Kyoto Prize at Oxford” was held by inviting previous year’s Kyoto Prize laureates into the University of Oxford, UK, concluding the 2023 Kyoto Prize series of events.
Videos of the 2023 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture Are Now Available!
On April 20, the 2024 InaRIS Fellowship Award Ceremony was held at a hotel in Kyoto.
On April 13, a ceremony was held at The Prince Kyoto Takaragaike (Sakyo-ku, Kyoto) for the Inamori Research Grant, which supports researchers in the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The ceremony was followed by a social gathering for the Seiwa Scholars Society (3S), which aims to promote exchange among grant recipients.
The 2024 Kyoto Prize Symposium was held from March 12 to 14.
The Inamori Foundation announced the 2024 fellows for the Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program on March 15, 2024. This year, we will welcome two new fellows, Hiroshi Suzuki (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University) and Ayuko Hoshino (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo), who were...
The Inamori Foundation announced the 50 recipients of the 2024 Inamori Grants on March 8, 2024. Out of 408 applicants (natural sciences: 335; humanities and social sciences: 73), 40 from the field of natural sciences and 10 from the field of humanities and social sciences were selected through the rigorous selection.
On a geometric figure determined by an equation involving multiple terms and variables, how many rational points are there?—One of the most famous problems in an academic discipline that considers such questions is Manin’s Conjecture. Dr. Sho Tanimoto of Nagoya University, a researcher of Manin’s Conjecture, has delivered significant achievements in this field.
Dr. Takeo Kanade, the 2016 Kyoto Prize laureate in Advanced Technology, received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category.
Dr. Zakir Hussain, the 2022 Kyoto Prize laureate in Arts and Philosophy, has received three 2024 Grammy Awards.
Dr. Masaki Kashiwara, the 2018 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, was selected as the recipient of the 42nd Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Award (Distinguished Achievement) on January 5, 2024.