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Toshiyuki Hirata, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Toshiyuki Hirata studies how to make crop cultivation methods suited to Hokkaido's growing conditions more efficient. Today's crop production must respond to rising costs caused by fertilizer price increases and water shortages, as well as to fertilizers, pesticides, and greenhouse gases leaving the field. Aiming for cropping systems that avoid overspending on money and materials and place a small burden on the environment, the lab investigates how to use green manure crops and the effects of no-till cultivation, which grows crops without plowing. The lab belongs to the Research Farm of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Masahito Kawai, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Masahito Kawai studies how cattle and horses eat and digest, researching better grazing and feeding methods. At the Shizunai Livestock Farm, the entire wide area of land including forest is used to raise Hokkaido Native horses and Japanese Shorthorn cattle, practicing livestock production that does not rely on imported grain feed. It is a field where, in addition to livestock nutrition, feed, behavior, and grassland, researchers can work across disciplines on themes surrounding livestock, such as insects and wild animals living on the farm, soil, and forests. The lab is based at the Shizunai Livestock Farm of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere in Shinhidaka Town, in the Hidaka region.
Koh Nakamura, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Nakamura conducts research to protect threatened plants of Hokkaido and Northeast Asia. The lab also does fieldwork overseas. It sorts out threatened species whose classification differs from country to country, and evaluates their distinctiveness and conservation priority from a global perspective. His specialties are plant systematics and phylogeography, and he also studies vascular plants of Asia and Oceania. He belongs to the Botanic Garden (Chuo-ku, Sapporo) of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Takayuki Azuma, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Azuma studies the classification and evolution of plants, focusing on those native to Hokkaido. The lab investigates the phylogeny of groups whose classification is disputed, and explores how their morphological characteristics have evolved. It also conducts genetic analyses of populations of plants at risk of extinction, and surveys of the local flora of Hokkaido. He belongs to the Botanic Garden (Chuo-ku, Sapporo) of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Masaru Kato, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Kato studies the history of the specimens and materials of the Sapporo Agricultural College Museum (today's Botanic Garden and Museum). The museum holds specimens that can no longer be collected, such as those of the Ezo wolf, tree specimens made by the Kaitakushi, and archaeological and Ainu materials. The aim is to re-examine information that has been lost or confused over many years, and thereby raise the value of the specimens and materials. He belongs to the Botanic Garden (Chuo-ku, Sapporo) of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Yasuhide Numata, Professor
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Prof. Numata studies combinatorial objects that appear in representation theory and ring theory from the viewpoint of enumerative combinatorics. The main objects of study are Young diagrams, which control symmetric functions and irreducible representations. The lab is interested in objects in general that admit combinatorial arguments, and also looks at structures that appear in computational algebraic statistics and topological data analysis. For graduate studies, Prof. Numata is affiliated with the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology rather than the Graduate School of Science.
Keiji Matsumoto, Project Professor
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Prof. Matsumoto studies the theory of special functions, using geometric methods to investigate functions defined by integrals. Many functions have integral representations, including the gamma function, the beta function, zeta functions, and hypergeometric functions. By viewing these integrals as pairings between cohomology groups and homology groups, the lab understands the functions geometrically. The lab also works on finding new automorphic functions and automorphic forms through the study of period maps for families of algebraic varieties.
Genki Ouchi, Associate Professor
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Prof. Ouchi studies algebraic geometry, which investigates algebraic varieties. A space that can be described as the common zero set of several polynomials is called an algebraic variety. High-dimensional shapes are difficult to build physically or draw directly, but they can still be written down and reasoned about in the language of mathematics. In particular, he prefers to study Calabi-Yau varieties in a broad sense, such as K3 surfaces and holomorphic symplectic varieties.
Yuanqing Cai, Associate Professor
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Prof. Cai studies automorphic representations and their L-functions, in a field spanning number theory and representation theory. Automorphic representations and L-functions are objects that encode many properties of numbers, and they remain an active area of research today. In this field, a wealth of results has been found on the theta correspondence and the doubling method. Prof. Cai works on the theory of L-functions for classical groups, using a recently discovered extension of the doubling method.
Travis Scrimshaw, Associate Professor
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Prof. Scrimshaw studies how to express representation theory in the language of combinatorics. Representation theory is a field that uses linear algebra to study algebraic objects and to understand the symmetries of physical systems. Using Prof. Kashiwara's crystal theory, Prof. Scrimshaw works on representations of Kac-Moody Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras. Prof. Scrimshaw applies this to Schubert calculus, which deals with the geometry of subspaces of vector spaces, and also explores connections with physics and probability theory.
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