Motohico Mulase, Motohiko Murase

MOTOHICO MULASE Motohiko Murase

Professor of Mathematics

At the rock of genus 1, near Grenoble, France:

Contact Information:

Office Phone Number: (530) 564-0231 (The local number is an even permutation of 0123456.) This phone is a Skype Phone and I do not use it. Please contact the Department Office or write me an e-mail.

e-mail: mulase[at]math[dot]ucdavis[dot]edu
Office is located on the third floor of the North-West wing of the Mathematical Sciences Building on the UC Davis Main Campus.

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

Research Information:

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
2011 - 2012 Research Grants: NSF DMS-1104734, DMS-1104751, and Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany

Research Seminars:

Workshops:

Talk Slides:

"On the Horizon of a Surface," Talk given at the UC Davis COSMOS Program, and also at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, aimed at high school students and college freshman, July 2010 (4.6MB)
"The Eynard-Orantin Theory in Geometry -- A Mystery from Physics," Talk given at the V Ibero-American Congress on Geometry, aimed at general mathematics audience, Pucón, Chile, December 2010 (3.8MB)

2011-2012 Courses:

Winter 2012: MAT 21C Calculus, Early Transcendentals (Sections A01 - A06). Please access the course webpage from SmartSite@UCDavis.

2010-2011 Courses:

Fall 2010: MAT 21A Calculus, Early Transcendentals (Sections B01 - B05)
Fall 2010: MAT 125A Real Analysis. In the academic year 2010-2011, we launch a new syllabus for the MAT 125AB sequence.
Winter 2011: MAT 125B Real Analysis
Winter 2011: MAT 298 (CRN #30246) "Seminars on Gromov-Witten Theory"

2009-2010 Courses:

Fall 2009: MAT 280 "Hurwitz Numbers and Moduli Theory"
Winter 2010: MAT 21C Calculus, Early Transcendentals
Winter 2010: MAT 125B Real Analysis
Spring 2010: MAT 298 (CRN #69853) "Seminars on Gromov-Witten Theory"

Biographical Information:

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 Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, 1980-85; Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1982-84; Visiting Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, New York, 1984-85; E. R. Hedrick Assistant Professor, UCLA, 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-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2009; Nagoya University, 2003, 2005; Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, 2007-08; Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 2008; University of Salamanca, Spain, 2008, 2009, 2011; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2010; Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2010; The Korteweg-de Vries Institute, Amsterdam, 2011.
Administrative Appointments: Vice-Chairperson of the Department for Undergraduate Affairs, 1995-1997; Department Chair, 1998-2001, 2004-2007; Acting Chair of the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics, Spring 2001
Service as Department Chair: During the six-year tenure as Department Chair, I successfully nominated three UC Davis Chancellor's Fellows, three Alfred P. Sloan Fellows, an MAA Tepper Haimo Award winner, an ONR Young Investigator Award winner, and two AMS Norbert Wiener Prize winners. I also negotiated and assisted the creation of four endowment funds within the Department: Henry L. Alder Fund, Arthur J. Krener Fund, G. Thomas Sallee Fund, and Evelyn M. Silvia Fund. These funds help undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars in their study, research, and teaching mathematics.
Selected Committee Appointments: Mathematics Search Committee, 1990-91, 1994-95 (Chair), 1995-96; AMS Committee on International Affairs, 1993-98; MSRI Committee of Academic Sponsors, 2004-07; Academic Senate Faculty Privilege and Academic Personnel Adviser, 2008-10, 2011-12; Faculty Advisory Committee to the MPS Dean, 2009-; Chair, Faculty Personnel Committee of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 2010-12.
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 Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany, 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; Guest Member, Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany, 2011.

Graduate Students:

Joseph Good: Ph.D. 1996; Senior Developer, information technology industry
Andrew R. Hodge: Ph.D. 2008; Permanent Research Mathematician, Department of Defense, Fort Meade, MD
Masato Kimura: Ph.D. 1996.
Michael Penkava: Ph.D. 1995; Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Ines Quandt: Ph.D. 1997 from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; German insurance industry
Brad Safnuk: Ph.D. 2006; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Central Michigan University
Adam Sorkin:
Eiko N. Tyler: Ph.D. 2001.

Undergraduate Students Supervised through Research:

Laura M. Adint: B.A. and B.S. with Highest Honors 1996; CRM Program Director, information technology industry
Kevin M. Chapman: B.S. with Highest Honors 2011; Graduate Student at UCLA
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; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Georgia 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.
AIM SQuaRE "Geometry and Physics of the New Topological Recursion," American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California, May 3 - 7, 2010.
Banff International Research Station International Workshop: "New Recursion Formulae and Integrablity for Calabi-Yau Spaces" October 16 - October 21, 2011, in Banff, Canada

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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

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