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MASTER'S COURCE
*Course of Mathematical Sciences
*Course of Advanced Physics
*Course of Frontier Materials Chemistry
*Course of Earth and Environmental Sciences
*Course of Electronics and Information Technology
*Course of Intelligent Machines and System Engineering

DOCTORAL COURSE
*Course of Advanced Materials Science and Technology
*Course of Safety Science and Technology

The Graduate School of Science and Technology (Master's Course) considers education as the most important duty, and aims to bring up highly specialized graduates who can adapt themselves to the progress and diversity of science and technology. The Course provides advanced science and technology education under the consideration of the importance for the close connection between the education of the undergraduate program and that of the master's program. The structure of Master's Course has been changed as below from the year of 2010. The structure before 2009 is HERE.

Course of Mathematical Sciences
Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Mathematical Sciences	EI Hiromi	Ergodic Theory (Fractal, Quasi-periodic tiling)
	KOBAYASHI Shimpei	Differential Geometry, Integrable Systems
	KOMATSU Takao	Analytic Number Theory
	KON Masamichi	Analysis of various types of optimal location problems, and construction of efficient algorithms for those problems
	SAKAKI Makoto	Differential Geometry
	SUGIMOTO Tomoyuki	Statistics
	TACHIYA Yohei	Transcendental Number Theory
	TAMBARA Daisuke	Group theory
	TSUTAYA Kimitoshi	Partial Differential Equations, Applied Analysis
	NAKAZATO Hiroshi	Matrix analysis, numerical range of a matrix
	NAGASE Noriaki	Stochastic differential equations and stochastic control
	BETSUMIYA Koichi	Algebraic Combinatorics, Coding Theory
	YAMAMOTO Masakazu	Nonlinear partial differential equations

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Course of Advanced Physics
Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Solid State Physics	KATO Hiroo
	SAKISAKA Yasuo	Synchrotron-radiation Angle-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Electronic Structures of Strongly Correlated Magnetic Metals such as Ni and Ce.
	IM Hojun	Studies on electronic and magnetic porperies in strongly correlated electrons systems by synchrotron radiation spectroscopies.
	MIYANAGA Takafumi	Condensed Matter Physics / Materials Science. Structural Dynamics (Phase Transitions, Chemical Reactions, Surface Processes, Nonequilibrium states) , XAFS / Synchrotron Radiation.
	TEZUKA Yasuhisa	X-ray Spectroscopic Studies on Electronic State of Dielectrics and Strongly Correlated Materials.
	WATANABE Takao	Single Crystal Growth and Physical Properties of Strongly Correlated Materials including High-Tc Cuprates. Exploration of New Functional Materials.
	AZUHATA Takashi	Optical Properties of Semiconductors.
	ENTA Yoshiharu	Atomic Structures, Electronic Structures, and Chemical Reactions on Semiconductor Surface/Interface.
	SUZUKI Yushi	Interface Science of Materials Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy Low-Dimensional Low-energy Physics.
Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Physics	TAKAHASHI Nobusuke	High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics by Computer Simulation and Large Area Air Shower Experiments.
	ASADA Hideki	Theoretical Astrophysics, especially General Relativity and Cosmology (Gravitational Lens, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter, Dark Energy).
	SENDOUDA Yuuiti	Theoretical physics, cosmology and gravity

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Course of Frontier Materials Chemistry
Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Organic Chemistry	ITO Shunji	Study on the Creation of Novel Functional Organic Materials Using Advanced Synthetic Methodologies.
	SAWADA Hideo	Studies on the Development and Applications of Novel Fluorinated Polymeric Functional Materials Imparted by Fluorine.
	YOSHIZAWA Atsushi	Molecular Design for Novel Functional Liquid Crystals.
	KAWAKAMI Jun	Design, Synthesis and Application of Novel Fluorescent Chemosensor for Ion and Molecule Recognition.
Physical Chemistry	SUTO Shin-ichi	Applied Studies on Cellulosic Liquid Crystalline Membrane.
	ABE Toshiyuki	Development of Visible-Light-Induced Photoenergy Conversion System on the Basis of Design and Fabriation of Organic Photodevices.
	SAGISAKA Masanobu	Development of Novel Functional Molecular Assemblies and Their Application
	MIYAMOTO Ryo	Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Ab Initio Calculation of Transition Metal and Rare-Earth Metal Complexes: Molecular Structure, Electronic and Spin Structure
Inorganic / Analytical Chemistry	OKAZAKI Masaaki	Synthesis and Functionality of Redox-Responsive Transition-Metal Complexes and Clusters
	NUKATSUKA Isoshi	Studies on Separation Chemistry for Trace Constituents Based on Solid-Phase Extraction, and the Development of Integrated Sensing Systems on Solid-Phase.
	KITA Shouichi	Photoinduced Energy- and Electron-Transfer Processes in Polynuclear Metal Complexes.
	KITAGAWA Fumihiko	Development of Integrated High Performance Separation and High Sensitive Detection Systems Based on Microscale Electrophoresis

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Course of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Cosmology and Cosmic Ray Research	KURAMATA Shuichi	Galactic Space Physics probed by Cosmic Rays
	KASAI Masumi	Cosmology, Inhomogeneous Universe, Gravitational Lensing
	ICHIMURA Masakatsu	Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Propagation Mechanisms
	TAKAHASHI Ryuichi	Cosmology, Dark Energy, Gravitational Lens, Gravitational Waves
Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry	TSURUMI Makoto	Chemistry and Geochemistry for Surface and Subsurface Hydrological Environment, providing a Comprehensive Understanding of the Transfer and Circulation and the Effect of Chemical Constituents on Our Environment through the Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere and Biosphere, involving the following topics: Acid Rain, Stream Water, Forest Ecosystem and Geothermal Water.
Meteorology	KODAMA Yasu-Masa	Precipitation Systems observed by Space-bone Radar and Atmospheric Radar, Satellite Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Heavy Snowfall and Yamase in the Northern Part of Japan, Precipitation Systems in the Subtropics
	ISHIDA Sachinobu	Land-atmosphere Interaction, Local Meteorology, Heat, Water and Carbon Cycle
Geology and Petrology	UJIIE Yoshihiro	Petroleum Genesis, Burial History of Sedimentary Rocks, Organic Maturation in Sediments
	SHIBA Masatoshi	Mineralogy and Petrology of Low-grade Metamorphic Rocks, Tephrology of the Northeastern Part of Japan
	NEMOTO Naoki	Assessment of Marine Environment and Reconstruction of Paleoenvironment based on Foraminifer
	SASAKI Minoru	Geology and Petrology of Arc Volcanoes
	HORIUCHI Kazuho	Paleoclimatology, Geochronology, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Ice Core, Sediments, Tree Rings, Relation between Celestial Phenomena and Global Climate
Seismology	SATO Tamao	Studies on Earthquake Mechanism and Seismotectonics
	KOSUGA Masahiro	Observational Studies on the Effect of Structural and Stress Heterogeneities in the Lithosphere on the Generation of Earthquakes in Subduction Zones and Inland Areas
Natural Disaster Prevention Technology	ARIGA Yoshiaki	Seismic Safety Evaluation for Dams and Electric Power Facilities, Earthquake Countermeasures, Earthquake Early Warning
	TSUMURA Kozo	Earthquake Resistance, Disaster Control and Maintenance of Structures
	KATAOKA Shunichi	Estimation and Evaluation of Earthquake Ground Motion for Disaster Mitigation
	KAMIHARAKO Akihisa	Maintenance for Concrete Structure, Seismic Retrofitting, Numerical Simulation

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Course of Electronics and Information Technology
Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Electronics Engineering	OKAMOTO Hiroshi	Research on Semiconductor Device; Fundamentals and Application for Optical Communication
	FUKASE Masa-aki	Research and Development of Ubiquitous Processor Chips for Next Generation IT Technologies
	KUROKAWA Atsushi	Research on the high-performance and high-reliability design technology (such as low-power, low-EMC, variation-aware high-quality communications, etc.) of semiconductor integrated circuits
	NAKAZAWA Hideki	Heteroepitaxy, Preparation of Semiconductor Thin Films Using Plasma Processes, Structure and Properties of Functional Thin Films of Carbon and Related Materials and Their Applications
	SATO Tomoaki	Development of a sustainable processor and a processor for network security
	IMAI Masashi
Electronics and Computer Engineering	YOSHIOKA Yoshio	Parallel Computer, Functional Distributed Control System, Embedded System, Computer Network
	NARITA Akiko	Dynamic Load Balancing for Multi-processor System, Embedded System Software, Computer Network
	ICHIJO Kenji	Multiprocessor Systems, Reconfigurable Systems, Computer Networks, Wavelet Analysis and its Applications
Information Engineering	ONOGUCHI Kazunori	Computer Vision and Image Processing
	TAMBA Sumio	Data Analysis with Remote Sensing and GIS, Database System
	NAGASE Tomoyuki	Information Security, Wireless Communications Technology, Computer Networks
	MIZUTA Satoshi	Genome Informatics and Development of the Algorithms Used Therein
Computational Engineering and Science	SAITO Minoru	Molecular Simulation, Supercomputer, Parallel Programming, Acceleration by Parallelization, Development of PC-Cluster, by These Methods, Prediction of Functions of Proteins.
	SHIMIZU Toshio	Computational Analysis of Genomic Information, Gene Prediction, Comprehensive Identification and Classification of Protein Function, Methodology for the Above Issues, and Construction of Databases for Biological and Medical Uses
	TANEDA Akito	Soft Computing, Evolutionary Algorithm, Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis, Nanomaterials Simulation
	OKAZAKI Isao	Computation Methodology for Electronic States of Biomolecules

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Course of Intelligent Machines and System Engineering
Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Mechanical and Intelligent Material Systems	SASAGAWA Kazuhiko	Development of functional and reliability evaluation method of micro- and nano-material systems, Biomechanical study on functional evaluation of medical and welfare devices
	FURUYA Yasufumi	Materials design and fabrication processing for developing multi-functional and smart materials and devices
	SATO Hiroyuki	Deformation characteristics of crystalline materials at high temperatures. Strengthening, processing and life prediction of high performance structural materials.
Thermal Fluid Engineering of Various Systems	Abuliti Abudula	Study on energy conversion materials/devices/system for sustainable development
	ITO Akihiko	Combustion and Fire Safety
	INAMURA Takao	Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Multiphase Flow in Various Systems
	TORIKAI Hiroyuki	Science of firefighting and combustion engineering
	FUMOTO Koji	Study on Heat Transfer Characteristic of Functional Fluid in Micro and Nano Scale.
	SHIROTA Minori	Bubble Dynamics and Liquid Atomization
Instrument and Control Engineering	IIKURA Yoshikazu	Systematization of Satellite Image Processing, Geometric Correction, Illumination Correction and Landcover Classification.
	FUKUDA Makoto	Precision Motion Control, Micromachine Manipulation, Lithography Equipment Development, Alignment Device Development.
	IWATANI Yasushi	Vision-based robot control
	SAITO Hiroyuki	Seismoelectric effect, Acoustic logging, Geometric correction of satellite images, Retrieval of synthetic aperture radar images.
Medical System Engineering	ONO Toshiro	Nano-thin film deposition for ubiquitous-medical-MEMS devices
	SAGAWA Koichi	Body-mounted biomechanical analysis system Quantitative evaluation of sense
	HANADA Yasutaka	Laser processing, µ-TAS, Biophotonic measurement

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The Graduate School of Science and Technology (Doctoral Course) consists of two courses of Advanced Materials Science and Technology and Safety Science and Technology. The former covers the development of useful materials and their application technology and the latter does crisis-controlling technology for natural and human-originating disasters in the highly developed society. Each course aims to bring up doctors who will be able to solve problems with a flexible and perspective consideration from the whole situation.

Course of Advanced Materials Science and Technology
Functional Materials Chemistry	Academic Member Keywords ITO Shunji Molecular design and creation of novel functional organic materials, and Development of advanced synthetic methodologies OKAZAKI Masaaki Construction of Functional Transition-Metal Complexes and Clusters Based on Synergetic Effect of Elements SAITO Minoru Molecular dynamics simulations and electronic state calculations of proteins and nucleic acids using supercomputers SAWADA Hideo Studies on the Development and Applications of Novel Fluorinated Polymeric Functional Materials Imparted by Fluorine SUTO Shin-ichi Natural Polymer,Polymer Composite, Cellulosic Liquid Crystalline Fiber and Film NUKATSUKA Isoshi Solid-phase extraction and integrated analytical systems YOSHISAWA Atsushi Design of liquid-crystalline materials with a novel phase structure for new electrooptical and biological properties ABE Toshiyuki Study of photo/chemical energy conversion through design and fabrication of novel and efficient photofunctional interfaces KAWAKAMI Jun Design, Synthesis and Application of Novel Photofunctional Organic Compounds MIYAMOTO Ryo Studies on spin states and electronic structures of transition metal and rare-earth metal complexes based on molecular design TANEDA Akito Study on biomolecules and nanoscale materials using artificial intelligence KITAGAWA Fumihiko Development of Integrated High Performance Separation and High Sensitive Detection Systems Based on Microscale Electrophoresis SAGISAKA Masanobu Development of Novel Functional Molecular Assemblies and Their Application HANAMATSU Kenko Studies on development and application of novel functional materials using biopolymer
Materials Processing Physics	Academic Member Keywords OKAMOTO Hiroshi ONO Toshiro 1. High quality thin film processing by electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma. 2. Fabrication of MEMS devices for sensing of human movement. 3. Fabrication of ultra-thin high-k films for future devices. KATO Hiroo Photoemission study of surface electronic structures, mainly using Syncrotron Radiation SAKISAKA Yasuo Photoelectron spectroscopy study of one-electron-picture aspects and many-body behaviors of strongly correlated electron systems SASAGAWA Kazuhiko 1. Functional and reliability evaluations of micro- and nano-material systems (IC, MEMS, NEMS) 2. Biomechanical study on functional evaluation of medical and welfare devices FUKASE Masaaki FURUYA Yasufumi 1. New Solid-state Sensor/Actuator Materials 2. New Materials Processing 3. Intelligent/Smart Materials and Devices 4. Intelligent Materials System 5. Non-destructive evaluation MIYANAGA Takafumi 1. Condensed Matter Physics / Materials Science 2. Structural Dynamics (Phase Transitions, Chemical Reactions, Surface Processes, Nonequilibrium states) 3. XAFS / Synchrotron Radiation 4. Intelligent Materials System 5. Non-destructive evaluation WATANABE Takao Single Crystal Growth and Physical Properties of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (including High-Tc Cuprates) AZUHATA Takashi Optical properties of semiconductors ENTA Yoshiharu Surface reactions associated with semiconductor devices, thin crystal growth, surface passivation, and surface electronic structure for semiconductors SATO Hiroyuki 1. Strength of light structural materials 2. Advanced structural materials 3. High temperature deformation and reliability SUZUKI Yushi Study of anomalous enhanced local field and local structure at interface, ultra-thin film and nano particle TEZUKA Yasuhisa High Energy Spectroscopy Study of Strongly Correlated Materials, Ferroelectric Materials, and so on. Study of Soft X-ray Spectroscopy. IM Hojun 1. Electronic and magnetic properties of strongly correlated electrons systemes 2. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy 3. Fabrication of strongly correlated materials NAKAZAWA Hideki KUROKAWA Atsushi Development of state-of-the-art design technology of integrated circuits on nano- and power-electronics HANADA Yasutaka Laser micro-nano fabrication of transparent materials, Biomedical photonics IMAI Masashi

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Course of Safety Science and Technology
Environmental and Safety Sciences	Academic Member Keywords ARIGA Yoshiaki Earthquake safety evaluation method for dams and spillways based on 3-D dynamic analysis, Safety evaluation method for existing structures against surface fault displacement IIKURA Yoshikazu Systematic processing of satellite images including geometric correction, topographic correction, and land cover classification UJIIE Yoshihiro Burial and diagenetic change of organic matter in sediments, thermal history of sedimentary rocks, petroleum generation KASAI Masumi General Relativity and Cosmology SATO Tamao Seismic radiation from earthquake faulting, Seismic velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle, Earthquake prediction ASADA Hideki Theoretical Cosmophysics ICHIMURA Masakatsu Study of Origin, Acceleration and Propagation Mechanisms of Galactic Cosmic Ray Nuclei KATAOKA Shun-ichi Prediction of strong motion, estimation of local site effects KOSUGA Masahiro Earthquake source mechanism, seismic wave propagation, and seismotectonics in northeast Japan KODAMA Yasumasa Mechanisms of precipitation - rain and snow - Observation of precipitation using Radar and satellite Latent heating in the atmosphere and its influence to atmospheric circulation TAKAHASHI Nobusuke High energy cosmic ray physics by Monte Calro method,Large area air shower, Detection of cosmic ray particles by using the thermoluminescent technique TAMBA Sumio Extraction and development of correction method about ocean information, especially global sea surface temperature distribution by satellite remote sensing TSUMURA Kozo Earthquake resistant engineering, mechanical properties of constructed structures TAKAHASHI Ryuichi Cosmology, Dark Energy, Gravitational Lens, Gravitational Waves KAMIHARAKO Akihisa Nonlinear analysis for RC member damaged by material deterioration, Life span evaluation for repair or strengthening effect of upgrading RC member SENDOUDA Yuuiti Theoretical physics, cosmology and gravity
Safety System Engineering	Academic Member Keywords Abuliti Abdula Fuel Cell Technology (catalyst, electrode, electrolyte, recovering and utilizing heat from fuel cell exhaust), Biomass energy conversion technology ITO Akihiko Combustion and Fire Safty, Flame Spread over Condensed Phase INAMURA Takao Modeling of Droplet Formation and Numerical Simulation of Spray Flow ONOGUCHI Kazunori Computer Vision KOMATSU Takao Various kinds of algorithms and approximation problems in Number Theory and related fields SAKAKI Makoto Geometry of Surfaces and Submanifolds, Geometric Variational Problems SHIMIZU Toshio Bioinformatics TAMBARA Daisuke representations of finite groups NAKAZATO Hiroshi Eigenvalues of a matrix, Generalized numerical range of a matrix, Algorithm to compute the equation of the boundary of the numerical range FUKUDA Makoto Intelligent motion control and measurement of precise machines for semiconductor fabrication tools, optical or magnetic information storage devices and medical instruments YOSHIOKA Yoshio Studies of the traffic analyses, the designing methods and the estimating methods for the information systems, using the queueing systems IWATANI Yasushi Vision-based robot control KON Masamichi Operations Research, Optimization Theory, Location Problem SAGAWA Koichi We are studying on measurement and classification of human behavior based on mechanical engineering and ergonomics, and qualitative evaluation of emotion for human-machine interaction. NAGASE Tomoyuki A graduate course on advanced topics in Digital Signal Processing for Multimedia Communications and Information Security which include multimedia content protection such as digital watermarking, authentication and encryption techniques BETSUMIYA Koichi Algebraic Combinatrics, Coding Theory KOBAYASHI Shimpei Differential Geometry, Integrable Systems FUMOTO Koji Study on Thermal Storage and Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Functional Fluid. TSUTAYA Kimitoshi Asymptotic Analysis of Nonlinear Waves, Analysis on Non-Local Wave Interaction SUGIMOTO Tomoyuki Statistical theory, methodlogy and data analysis based on counting processes TACHIYA Yohei Irrationality, Transcendence, Algebraic Independence

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