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Hisashi Okamoto

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Hisashi Okamoto (岡本 久, Okamoto Hisashi, born 23 November 1956)[1] is a Japanese applied mathematician, specializing in mathematical fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics.[2]

Okamoto graduated from the University of Tokyo in March 1979. In April 1981 he became a research associate to Hiroshi Fujita (known for the Fujita-Kato theorem[3]) at the University of Tokyo. There in 1985 he received his Doctorate of Science with Fujita as advisor. For the academic year 1986–1987 Okamoto was a visiting fellow at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications. In August 1987 Okamoto became an associate professor in the University of Tokyo's Department of Applied Science. In 1988 he visited the National University of Singapore. At Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), he became an associate professor in April 1990 and a full professor in April 1994. At RIMS he was Head of the Computer Science Research Laboratory from 2004 to 2005 and deputy director in 2006, 2009, and 2011.[4] He is editor-in-chief of the Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (JJIAM).[2]

Okamoto is the author or co-author of over 100 articles in refereed journals or in books of conference proceedings.[5] He wrote, with Mayumi Shōji, the 2001 monograph The mathematical theory of permanent progressive water-waves.[6][7]

Awards and honors

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  • 1998 — Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin 1998[8]
  • 2002 — Inoue Science Award
  • 2011 — President of the East Asia SIAM, 2011–2012
  • 2013 — Fellow of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics
  • 2013 — Fellow of the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • 2015 — Plenary Lecturer, Mathematical Society of Japan, September 2015.
  • 2016 — Hiroshi Fujiwara Prize on Mathematical Science

References

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  1. ^ "Okamoto Hisashi 岡本 久". National Institute of Informatics, Japan.
  2. ^ a b "Hisashi Okamoto". Kyoto University, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
  3. ^ Okamoto, H.; Kato, T. (1964). "On the Navier-Stokes initial value problem. I". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 16 (4): 269–315. Bibcode:1964ArRMA..16..269F. doi:10.1007/BF00276188. S2CID 122166828.
  4. ^ "CV of Hisashi Okamoto". Kyoto University, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
  5. ^ "Research Papers, Hisashi Okamoto". Kyoto University, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences. (including online links to publications)
  6. ^ Okamoto, Hisashi; Shōji, Mayumi (2001). The Mathematical Theory of Permanent Progressive Water-waves. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-02-4450-7.
  7. ^ Vanden-Broeck, J. M. (2003). "Review of The Mathematical Theory of Permanent Progressive Water-Waves by H. Okamoto & M. Shōji". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 474: 410–411. doi:10.1017/S0022112002002951. ISSN 0022-1120. S2CID 122573566.
  8. ^ Okamoto, Hisashi. "A Study of Bifurcation of Kolmogorov Flows with an Emphasis on the Singular Limit". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998, Berlin. Vol. 3. pp. 513–522.