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Arano, Yuki Awata, Hidetoshi Bachmann, Henrik Bez, Neal
Chan, Aaron Fujiwara, Kazuhiro Furusho, Hidekazu Garrigue, Jacques
Hamanaka, Masashi Hayashi, Masahito Hayashi, Takahiro Hesselholt, Lars
Hirai, Hiroshi Hisamoto, Tomoyuki Hishida, Toshiaki Ishii, Akira
Izumi, Keisuke Jaerisch, Johannes Kanno, Hiroaki Kasuya, Hisashi
Kato, Jun Kawamura, Tomomi Kinoshita, Shinya Kita, Nanao
Kubo, Masashi Le Gall, François Matsuo, Shinichiroh Minami, Kazuhiko
Mori, Ryuhei Moriyoshi, Hitoshi Nagao, Taro Naito, Hisashi
Nakamura, Yusuke Nakanishi, Tomoki Nakashima, Makoto Nayatani, Shin
Ohira, Toru Ohkubo, Shun Ohta, Hiroshi Okada, Soichi
Osuga, Kento Sasahara, Yasuhiro Sato, Takeshi Shiromizu, Tetsuya
Sugimoto, Mitsuru Takahashi, Ryo Tanimoto, Sho Terasawa, Yutaka
Ueda, Yoshimichi Yanagida, Shintaro Yoshida, Nobuo
Masashi Kubo Associate Professor
OFFICE Rm 403 in Math. Bldg.
PHONE +81 (0)52-789-2825 (ext. 2825)
E-MAIL
RESEARCH
  • source coding
  • large deviation
  • stochastic process
PAPERS
[1]S. Ihara and M. Kubo. Error exponent of coding for stationary memoryless sources with a fidelity criterion. IEICE Trans. E88-A (2005), no. 5, 1339–1345.
[2]S. Ihara and M. Kubo. The asymptotics of string matching probabilities for Gaussian random sequences. Nagoya Math. J. 166 (2002), 39–54.
[3]S. Ihara and M. Kubo. Error exponent for coding of memoryless Gaussian sources with a fidelity criterion. IEICE Trans. E83-A (2000), no. 10, 1891–1897.
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François Le Gall Professor
OFFICE Rm 404 in Math. Bldg.
PHONE +81 (0)52-789-2412 (ext. 2412)
E-MAIL
WEBSITE https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~legall/index.html
PROFILE [DOWNLOAD] legall_francois_en.pdf [PDF/84KB]
RESEARCH
  • algorithms
  • computational complexity
  • quantum computing
PAPERS
[1]F. Le Gall. Average-case quantum advantage with shallow circuits. in Proceedings of the 34th Computational Complexity Conference, 2019, pp. 21:1-21:20.
[2]F. Le Gall. Powers of tensors and fast matrix multiplication. in Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, 2014, pp. 296–303.
[3]F. Le Gall. Improved quantum algorithm for triangle finding via combinatorial arguments. in Proceedings of the 55th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2014, pp. 216–225.
PRIZES
2014, ISSAC 2014 Distinguished Paper Award
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Shinichiroh Matsuo Associate Professor
OFFICE Rm 451 in Sci. Bldg. A
PHONE +81 (0)52-789-2409 (ext. 2409)
E-MAIL
WEBSITE https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~shinichiroh/
RESEARCH
  • gauge theory
  • dynamical systems
  • positive scalar curvature
PAPERS
[1]S. Matsuo and M. Tsukamoto. Brody curves and mean dimension. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (2015), no. 1, 159–182.
[2]S. Matsuo. The prescribed scalar curvature problem for metrics with total unit volume. Math. Ann. 360 (2014), no. 3–4, 675–680.
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Kazuhiko Minami Associate Professor
OFFICE Rm 347 in Sci. Bldg. A
PHONE +81 (0)52-789-5578 (ext. 5578)
E-MAIL
WEBSITE https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~minami/
PROFILE [DOWNLOAD] minami_kazuhiko_en.pdf [PDF/71KB]
RESEARCH
  • statistical physics
  • lattice models
  • integrable systems
  • magnetic materials
  • statistical mechanics of equilibrium and non-equiliburium systems
PAPERS
[1]K. Minami. The susceptibility in arbitrary directions and the specific heat in general Ising-type chains of uniform, periodic and random structures. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 67 (1998), 2255–2269.
[2]K. Minami and M. Suzuki. Non-universal critical behaviour of two-dimensional Ising systems. J. Phys. A 27 (1994), no. 22, 7301–7311.
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Ryuhei Mori Associate Professor
OFFICE Rm 402 in Math. Bldg.
PHONE +81 (0)52-789-5604 (ext. 5604)
E-MAIL
RESEARCH
  • quantum information
  • information theory
  • statistical physics
  • computational complexity
PAPERS
[1]Y. Kondo, R. Mori, and R. Movassagh. Quantum supremacy and hardness of estimating output probabilities of quantum circuits. IEEE 62nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science—FOCS2021, 1296–1307.
[2]K. Shimizu and R. Mori. Exponential-time quantum algorithms for graph coloring problems. Algorithmica 84 (2022), 3603–3621.
[3]R. Mori. Periodic Fourier representation of Boolean functions. Quantum Inf. Comput. 19 (2019), no. 5–6, 392–412.
PRIZES
2010, 32nd SITA Encouragement Award (by Society of Information Theory annd Its Applications)
2012, 14th Ericsson Best Student Award (by Ericsson Japan)
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Hitoshi Moriyoshi Professor
OFFICE Rm 504 in Math. Bldg.
PHONE +81 (0)52-789-4746 (ext. 4746)
E-MAIL
PROFILE [DOWNLOAD] moriyoshi_hitoshi_en.pdf [PDF/143KB]
RESEARCH
  • topology
  • differential geometry
  • noncommutative geometry
  • index theorem
PAPERS
[1]H. Moriyoshi and T. Natsume. The Godbillon–Vey cyclic cocycle and longitudinal Dirac operators. Pacific J. Math. 172 (1996), no. 2, 483–539.
[2]H. Moriyoshi. Operator algebras and the index theorem on foliated manifolds, in Foliations: geometry and dynamics (Warsaw, 2000), World Scientific, 2002, pp. 127–155.
[3]H. Moriyoshi and T. Natsume. Operator algebras and geometry. Transl. Math. Monogr. 237, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2008.
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Taro Nagao Professor
OFFICE Rm 508 in Math. Bldg.
PHONE +81 (0)52-789-5392 (ext. 5392)
E-MAIL
WEBSITE https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~nagao/nagaoeng.html
PROFILE [DOWNLOAD] nagao_taro_en.pdf [PDF/75KB]
RESEARCH
  • theory of random matrices
  • quantum field theory and disordered systems
  • semiclassical theory of quantum mechanics
PAPERS
[1]T. Nagao. Dynamical correlations for vicious random walk with a wall. Nuclear Phys. B 658 (2003), no. 3, 373–396.
[2]T. Nagao. Correlation functions for multi-matrix models and quaternion determinants. Nuclear Phys. B 602 (2001), no. 3, 622–637.
PRIZES
2011, Ryogo Kubo Memorial Prize (by Inoue Foundation for Science)
“Random matrix theory and its applications to physics”
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Hisashi Naito Professor / Chair
OFFICE Rm 408 in Math. Bldg.
PHONE +81 (0)52-789-2415 (ext. 2415)
E-MAIL
WEBSITE https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~naito/naito-e.html
PROFILE [DOWNLOAD] naito_hisashi_en.pdf [PDF/321KB]
RESEARCH
  • differential geometry
  • variational problem
  • paritial differential equation on Riemannian manifolds
PAPERS
[1]H. Kozono, Y. Maeda and H. Naito. Global solution for the Yang–Mills gradient flow on $4$-manifolds. Nagoya Math. J. 139 (1995), 93–128.
[2]H. Naito. Finite time blowing-up for the Yang–Mills gradient flow in higher dimensions. Hokkaido Math. J. 23 (1994), 451–464.
[3]H. Naito. A stable manifold theorem for a quasi-linear parabolic equations and asymptotic behavior of the gradient flow for geometric variational problems. Compositio Math. 68 (1988), 221–239.
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