Norihiro Tokitoh is a professor of chemistry at the Institute for Chemical Research (ICR), Kyoto University. He received his Ph. D. (1985) from the University of Tokyo. After spending some years as Research Associate (1986) and then Assistant Professor (1987) of Tsukuba Univ., and Assistant Professor (1989) and then Associate Professor (1994) of The University of Tokyo, he was appointed as Professor of the Institute for Fundamental Organic Chemistry, Kyushu Univ. in 1998 and moved to ICR, Kyoto University in 2000. He served as Guest Professor at Institute for Molecular Science (2001-2003), Technische Universität Braunschweig (2004-2007), and Universität Bonn (2013-), and Director of ICR (2008-2012, 2014-).

His main research interest is focused on novel bonding and structures in heavier main group element chemistry. He received Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (1992), Progress Award in Silicon Chemistry, Japan (1996), Japan IBM Science Award (1998), Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2003), Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2003), Lectureship Award of National Science Council, Republic of China (2007), Kim Yong Hae Lectureship Award of KAIST, Korea (2010), BCSJ Awards (2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2013), Best Reviewer Commendation (JSPS; 2010), and Re-invitation by AvH Research Award (2013). He contributed to several chemistry journals, such as Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry (Associate Editor for Asia, 1998-2006), Organometallics (Advisory Board Member, 2006-2009), Journal of Sulfur Chemistry (Editorial Board Member, 2001-), Main Group Metal Chemistry (Editorial Board Member, 2011-) and Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (Editor-in-chief, 2013-).

Synthesis and Characterization of a Stable Dibismuthene: Evidence for a Bi-Bi Double Bond, Tokitoh, N.; Arai, Y.; Okazaki, R.; Nagase, S. Science, 1997, 277, 78-80.

A Stable Neutral Silaaromatic Compound, 2-{2,4,6-Tris[bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl]-phenyl}-2-silanaphthalene, Tokitoh, N.; Wakita, K.; Okazaki, R.; Nagase, S.; Schleyer, P. v. R.; Jiao, H. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 6951-6952.

New Progress in the Chemistry of Stable Metallaaromatic Compounds of Heavier Group 14 Elements, Tokitoh, N. Acc. Chem. Res. 2004, 37, 86-94.

Synthesis and Reactions of a Stable 1,2-Diaryl-1,2-dibromodisilene: A Precursor for Substituted Disilenes and a 1,2-Diaryldisilyne, Sasamori, T.; Hironaka, K. ; Sugiyama, Y.; Takagi, N.; Nagase, S.; Hosoi, Y. ; Furukawa, Y.; Tokitoh, N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 13856-13857.

Stable Heavier Carbene Analogues, Mizuhata, Y.; Sasamori, T.; Tokitoh, N. Chem. Rev. 2009, 109, 3479-351.

Noda, et al, “Trapping and emission of photons by a single defect in a photonic bandgap structure”, Nature, vol. 407, No. 6804, pp.608-610 (OCT 5 2000)

Noda, et al, “Full three-dimensional photonic bandgap crystals at near-infrared wavelengths”, Science, vol.289 No. 5479, pp. 604-606 (JUL 28 2000)

Imada, Noda, et al, “Coherent two-dimensional lasing action in surface-emitting laser with triangular-lattice photonic crystal structure”, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol.75, No.3, pp. 316-318 (JUL 19 1999).

Akahane, Noda, et al, “High-Q photonic nanocavity in a two-dimensional photonic crystal”, Nature, vol. 425, No. 6961, pp. 944-947 (OCT 30 2003).

Hirose, Noda, et al, “Watt-class high-power, high-beam-quality photonic-crystal lasers”, Nature Photonics, vol.8, No.5, pp. 406-411(May 2014).

and over 410 other publications
Total citation: over 13,500

Y. Tanaka, K. Ishizaki, M. D. Zoysa, T. Umeda, Y. Kawamoto, S. Fujita, and S. Noda: “Photonic crystal microcrystalline silicon solar cells”, Prog. Photovolt. Res. Appl. 23, 1475-1483 (2015).

Y. Tanaka, Y. Kawamoto, M. Fujita, and S. Noda: “Enhancement of broadband optical absorption in photovoltaic devices by band-edge effect of photonic crystals”, Opt. Express 21, 20111-20118 (2013).

Y. Tanaka, S. Takayama, T. Asano, Y. Sato, and S. Noda, “A Polarization Diversity Two-Dimensional Photonic-Crystal Device”, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., 16, pp. 70-76 (2010).

Y. Tanaka, T. Asano and S. Noda, “Design of Photonic Crystal Nanocavity with Q-factor of ~109”, J. Lightwave Technol., 26, pp. 1532-1539 (2008).

Y. Tanaka, J. Upham, T. Nagashima, T. Sugiya, T. Asano and S. Noda, “Dynamic control of the Q factor in a photonic crystal nanocavity”, Nature Materials, 6, pp. 862-865 (2007).

■ Papers

Inequality of Bogomolov-Gieseker type on arithmetic surfaces. Duke Math. J. 74 (1994), no. 3, 713-761.

Arithmetic Bogomolov-Gieseker’s inequality. Amer. J. Math. 117 (1995), no. 5, 1325-1347.

Relative Bogomolov’s inequality and the cone of positive divisors on the moduli space of stable curves. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 (1998), no. 3, 569-600.

The continuity of Deligne’s pairing. Internat. Math. Res. Notices 1999, no. 19, 1057-1066.

Arithmetic height functions over finitely generated fields. Invent. Math. 140 (2000), no. 1, 101-142.

A generalization of conjectures of Bogomolov and Lang over finitely generated fields. Duke Math. J. 107 (2001), no. 1, 85-102.

Continuity of volumes on arithmetic varieties. J. of Algebraic geometry 18 (2009), 407-457.

Zariski decompositions on arithmetic surfaces, Publ. RIMS Kyoto Univ., 48 (2012), 799-898. (DOI) 10.2977/PRIMS/89.

Toward Dirichlet’s unit theorem on arithmetic varieties, Kyoto J. of Math., 53 (2013), 197-259. (DOI) 10.1215/21562261-1966116.

Semiample invertible sheaves with semipositive continuous hermitian metrics, Algebra and Number Theory, 9 (2015), 503-509.

■ Books

Arakelov geometry. Translations of Mathematical Monographs, vol 244, (2014), American Mathematical Society.

Adelic divisors on arithmetic varieties, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 242, Num. 1144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/memo/1144, (2016).

Yoden, S., 1987: Bifurcation properties of a stratospheric vacillation model. J.Atmos.Sci., 44-13, 1723-1733.

Yoden, S., M. Shiotani and I. Hirota, 1987: Multiple planetary flow regimes in the Southern Hemisphere. J.Met.Soc.Japan, 65, 571-586.

Yoden, S. and M. Nomura, 1993: Finite-time Lyapunov stability analysis and its application to atmospheric predictability. J.Atmos.Sci., 50-11, 1531-1543.

Yoden, S. and M. Yamada, 1993: A numerical experiment on two-dimensional decaying turbulence on a rotating sphere. J.Atmos.Sci., 50-4, 631-643.

Yoden, S., 1997: Classification of simple low-order models in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate dynamics. Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods & Applications, 30-7, 4607-4618.

Yoden, S., M. Taguchi and Y. Naito, 2002: Numerical studies on time variations of the troposphere-stratosphere coupled system. J.Met.Soc.Japan, 80-4B, 811-830.

Yoden, S., 2007: Atmospheric predictability. J.Met.Soc.Japan, 85B, 77-102.

Hitchcock, P., T.G. Shepherd, and S. Yoden, 2010: On the approximation of local and linear radiative damping in the middle atmosphere. J.Atmos.Sci., 67-6, 2070-2085.

Trilaksono, N.J., S. Otsuka and S. Yoden, 2012: A time-lagged ensemble simulation on the modulation of precipitation over West Java in January-February 2007. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140-2, 601-616.

Yoden, S., H.-H. Bui and E. Nishimoto, 2014: A minimal model of QBO-like oscillation in a stratosphere-troposphere coupled system under a radiative-moist convective quasiequilibrium state. SOLA, 10, 112-116.

Uchida, Y. and Shibata, K. Magnetodynamical Acceleration of CO and Optical Bipolar Flows from the Region of Star Formation, Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, 37, 515-535 (1985)

Shibata, K., Ishido, Y., Acton, et al. Observations of X-ray Jets with the Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope, Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan Letters, 44, L173-L179 (1992)

Shibata, K., Masuda, S., Shimojo, M., et al. Hot Plasma Ejections Associated with Compact-Loop Solar Flares,　Ap. J. Lett., 451, L83-L85 (1995)

Yokoyama, T., and Shibata, K.,　Magnetic Reconnection as the Origin of X-ray Jets and H alpha Surges on the Sun,　Nature, 375, 42-44 (1995)

Chen, P. F., and Shibata, K.,　An Emerging Flux Trigger Mechanism for Coronal Mass Ejections,　ApJ, 545, 524-531 (2000)

Hayashi, M. R., Shibata, K., and Matsumoto, R.,　X-ray Flares and Mass Outflow Driven by Magnetic Interaction between a Protostar and its Surrounding Disk,　Ap. J. Lett., 468, L37-L40 (1996)

Yokoyama, T., and Shibata, K.,　Numerical Simulation of Solar Coronal X-ray Jet Based on the Magnetic Reconnection Model,　Publ. Astr. Soc. Japan, 48, 353-376 (1996)

Shimojo, M., Hashimoto, S., Shibata, K., Hirayama, T., Hudson, H., and Acton, L.,　Statistical Study of Solar X-ray Jets Observed with Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope,　Publ. Astr. Soc. Japan, 48, 123-136 (1996)

Shibata, K. and Tanuma, S.,　Plasmoid-Induced-Reconnection and Fractal Reconnection,　Earth, Planets, Space, 53, 473-482 (2001)

Shibata,K. and Uchida,Y.,　A Magnetodynamic Mechanism for the Formation of Astrophysical Jets. II.　Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, 38, 631-660 (1986)

Shoko Suzuki, Dr. Phil., is Professor at Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University in Japan. Dr. Suzuki is also a member of the Science Council of Japan, the Board of Education in Kyoto and the Board of Directors of the Japanese Society for the Philosophy of Education. She was the academic leader of a program in Kyoto University’s Global Center of Excellence, titled “Revitalizing Education for Dynamic Hearts and Minds (2007-2012)”. Prior to that, Dr. Suzuki was involved in research activities at the University Cologne, Germany from 1982 to 1989 and enjoyed a guest professorship at the Free University of Berlin, Germany from 2009 to 2010.

Suzuki, Shoko (2014): Ernährungspädagogik in Japan. In: Althans, B./Schmidt, F./Wulf, Chr.: Nahrung als Bildung. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf einen anthropologischen Zusammenhang, Beltz Juventa; Weinheim/Basel 2014, S.128-138.

Suzuki, S./Wulf, Ch. (2013): Auf dem Weg des Lebens – West- östliche Meditation. Logos Verlag; Berlin.

Suzuki, S. (2013): Wisdom on the Pursuit of Happiness in Daily Life: Christmas Celebration in the German Family, Klien, S./Wulf, Chr. (Hrsg.) Paragrana- Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, Band 22, Heft1: Well-Being – Emotions, Rituals, and Performances in Japan, P.235-248.

Suzuki, Shoko (2012):‚ The Kyoto School and J.F.Herbart‘. In: P. Standish,/N. Saito, (ed.): Education and the Kyoto School of Philosophy. Pedagogy for Human Transformation, Heidelberg/New York/London, P.41-53.

Suzuki, S./Wulf, Chr. u. anderen (2011): Glück der der Familie. Wiesbaden; VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; Wiesbaden.

Suzuki, S. (2010):　Sein und Werden – Poiesis in Gesten, in: Wulf Chr./Fischer-Lichte, E. (Hrsg.): Geste, Wilhelm Fink, S. 116-122.

Suzuki, S. (2010): Takt in Modern Education. Münster/New York; Waxmann

Suzuki, S. (2008): Die Zukunft verhandeln. Aus der Sicht der Wissenschafts-kommunikation in der Risikoforschung und Bioethik Japans, in: Paragrana-Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie. Bd.17: Das Menschliche Leben, S.187-194.

Suzuki, S. (2008): Takt als Medium, in: Paragrana- Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, Bd.16, S. 145-167.

Suzuki, S./Wulf, Chr. (ed.) (2007): Mimesis/Poiesis/Performativity. Münster/New York; Waxmann.