Motohico Mulase, Motohiko Murase

MOTOHICO MULASE Motohiko Murase

Professor of Mathematics

Contact Information:

Tel: (530) 752-6324 Office, 752-0827 Department

Fax: (530) 752-6635

e-mail: mulase[at]math[dot]ucdavis[dot]edu

Profile Page: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/research/profiles/mulase

General Area of Research: Integrable Systems; Complex Algebraic Geometry; Mathematical Physics; Differential Geometry; and Global Analysis.

Research Topics: Gromov-Witten Invariants, Hurwitz Numbers, Moduli Spaces of Algebraic Curves and Vector Bundles, Hitchin's Integrable Systems, Topological String Theory, Topological Recursion, Grothendieck's Dessins d'Enfants, Matrix Integrals, Infinite-Dimensional Geometry, Riemann-Schottky Problem for Jacobians and Prym Varieties, KP/KdV Equations, and Solitons.

Selected Publications in PDF Format

List of Invited Addresses at Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops:

2009 - 2010 Courses:

MAT 280, Fall 2009: Hurwitz Numbers and Moduli Theory

MAT 21C, Winter 2010: Calculus, Early Transcendentals

MAT 125B, Winter 2010: Real Analysis

Year Joining the Davis Faculty: 1989

Degrees: B.S. in Mathematics, 1978, The University of Tokyo; M.S. in Mathematics, 1980, RIMS, Kyoto University; Doctor of Science, 1985, Kyoto University

Positions Held: Research Associate, Nagoya University, 1980-85; Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1982-84; Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1984-85; E. R. Hedrick Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1985-88; Member, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1988-89; Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, 1989-91; Professor, University of California, Davis, 1991-

Visiting Professorships: Kyoto University, 1993, 1994, 1995; Humboldt University of Berlin, 1995, 1996, 2002; Nagoya University, 2003, 2005; Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, 2007-08; University of Salamanca, Spain, 2008, 2009.

Administrative Appointments: AMS Committee on International Affairs, 1993-98; Vice-Chairperson of the Department for Undergraduate Affairs, 1995-1996; Department Chair, 1998-2001, 2004-2007; Acting Chair of the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics, Spring 2001

Awards and Honors: Hironaka Foundation JMS Fellowship, Harvard University, 1982-83; Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1982-83, 1983-84; Member, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1988-89; Member, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, 1991-92; Presidential Faculty Fellow Nominee, 1993; UC Davis Faculty Development Awards, 1996-97, 2001-02; RIMS International Project Research Visiting Professorship, Kyoto University, 2007-08; Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2009.

Graduate Students:

Joseph Good: Ph.D. 1996; Senior Developer, information technology industry

Andrew R. Hodge: Ph.D. 2008; Permanent Research Mathematician, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD

Masato Kimura: Ph.D. 1996; Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Hood College, MD

Michael Penkava: Ph.D. 1995; Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Ines Quandt: Ph.D. 1997 from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; German banking industry

Brad Safnuk: Ph.D. 2006; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Central Michigan University

Eiko N. Tyler: Ph.D. 2001; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Undergraduate Students Supervised through Research:

Laura M. Adint: B.A. and B.S. with Highest Honors 1996; Senior Finance Manager, information technology industry

Alfonso Garcia: B.S. 1999; Mathematics Teacher, Westmont High School, Campbell, CA

Miguel A. Garcia: B.S. 1998; High School Physics Teacher

Christina L. Soderlund: B.S. with Honors 1999; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, California Lutheran University

Josephine T. Yu: B.S. with Highest Honors 2003; Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Conferences Organized:

CCCNLS Conference on Integrable Systems, UC Davis, 1991.

Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Physics, 934th AMS Western Section Meeting, UC Davis, April 1998.

UC Davis -- MSRI Conference on Mathematical Physics, May 2004.

IPMU Mini Workshop "A New Recursion from Random Matrices and Topological String Theory," Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Kashiwa, Japan, December 2008.

The 16th Osaka City University International Academic Symposium "Riemann Surfaces, Harmonic Maps and Visualization," Osaka, Japan, December 2008.

AIM Workship "Recursion structures in topological string theory and enumerative geometry," American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California, June 2009.

UC Davis -- MSRI Conference "Algebra and Topology in Interaction," September 2009.

Photo and Animation Gallery:

1/4 Century Ago

ICM2006 - Madrid, Spain

LMS Symposium 2006 - Durham, England

Reception for the Albert Schwarz Conference, May 2004 - Davis, California

Department Parties and Receptions, 2001-2005

QuickTime Movies of KdV and KP Solitons

Brothers:

Dr. Masatoshi Murase, Associate Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Dr. Hiroharu Murase, Chief Curator, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan