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MOTOKO KOTANI
  • Executive Vice President, Tohoku University
Keywords:
  • Mathematics
  • Geometry
  • Discrete geometric analysis

Presentation Abstract

Discrete Geometric Analysis — Mathematics that Connects Micro and Macro Worlds

As a common language for describing our universe, mathematics has contributed to the development of science throughout its long history. People have proposed mathematical models that describe the shapes and movements of the natural world and have developed mathematics as necessary. As our knowledge and interests have expanded and new sciences have emerged, mathematics has been given the opportunity to develop and evolved.

As observation and measurement techniques have become more sophisticated in recent years, it has become clear that the materials we see in everyday life are composed of very small units called atoms, which are connected to each other through interactions to form networks. It has also become evident that networks comprising networks form more complex microscopic worlds and that such networks determine the properties of materials. This has increased the need for mathematics in order to understand the relationship between the microscopic world and the macroscopic properties of materials we see and touch every day. Discrete geometric analysis reveals such hierarchical networks and the relationships between hierarchies. At the symposium, the speaker will discuss the challenges that discrete geometric analysis addresses with specific examples.

LECTURER’S PROFILE

Biography (As of August 2022)

Mar 1983
Department of Mathematics, Family of Science The University of Tokyo
Feb 1990
Doctor of Science, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Apr 1990
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Toho University
Sep 1993
Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Apr 1999
Associate Professor, Mathematical Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
Apr 2001
Visiting Professor, Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES), France
Jan 2004
Professor, Mathematical Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
Nov 2006
Special Adviser to the President of Tohoku University
Feb 2007
Visiting Researcher, Isaac Newton Institute, UK
Apr 2008
Member of the Board of Trustees, The Mathematical Society of Japan
Aug 2008
Distinguished Professor, Tohoku University
Apr 2010
Chair, Mathematics Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
May 2011
Deputy Director, Principal Investigator, Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
Apr 2012
Director, Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
Apr 2014
Associate Executive Vice President for Research, Tohoku University
Mar 2014 – Mar 2022
Executive Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office (Part-time)
Nov 2014
Member of the Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation
Jun 2015 – May 2017
President, The Mathematical Society of Japan
Apr 2017
Director, Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University (Japanese name of the institute changed)
Executive Director, RIKEN
Apr 2019 – Mar 2020
Director, Organization for Advanced Studies, Tohoku University
Apr 2020 – Present
Executive Vice President for Research, Tohoku University
Oct 2021 – Present
ISC Governing Board Officer

Awards and Honors

2005
Saruhashi Prize
2005
Tohoku University President’s Special Award
2011
Tohoku University President’s Education Award

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