CURRICULUM VITAE
• Name:
AOKI, Kazuo
• Present title:
- Honorary Chair Professor Department of Mathematics
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan - Professor Emeritus
Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
• Degree:
Doctor of Engineering, Kyoto University
• Honor:
- Jubilee Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (2002) - International Prize “Tullio Levi-Civita” (2013)
- Honorary Member of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (2022)
• Education:
- Graduated from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Kyoto University in 1973
- Finished the Graduate School (Master Course) at the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Kyoto University in 1975
- Finished the Graduate School (Doctor Course) at the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Kyoto University in 1978
• Positions and titles:
- Research Associate, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Kyoto University from 1978 to 1985
- Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Kyoto University from 1985 to 1994
- Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engi- neering, Kyoto University from 1994 to 2005
- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University from 2005 to 2016
- Visiting Research Fellow, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Tai- wan University from 2016 to 2019
- Honorary Chair Professor, National Cheng Kung University from 2015 to present - Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University from 2016 to present
• International activities:
(Visits for one month and more)
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- Visiting Research Fellow, Italian Government:
Politecnico di Milano (one year, 1981 – 1982)
- Visiting Research Fellow, Italian National Research Council (CNR):
Politecnico di Milano (one year, 1982 – 1983) - Visiting Professor, CNR:
Politecnico di Milano (one month, 1986)
Politecnico di Milano, Universit`a di Bologna (one month, 1988) Universit`a di Bologna (one month, 1989)
Universit`a di Parma (one month, 1993)
- Invited Professor, Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) (two months, 1991) - Visiting Scientist, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO):
Leiden University (one month, 1996)
- Invited Professor, Universit´e Paris 7 (two months, 1997)
- Visiting Scientist, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS):
Chalmers University of Technology (one month, 1999) - Invited Professor, Universit´e Paris 7 (one month, 2001) - Invited Professor, Universit´e de Provence (one month, 2001) - Invited Professor, Institut Henri Poincar´e (one month, 2001)
- Jubilee Professor (150th Anniversary Visiting Professor), Chalmers University of Technology (three months, 2002)
- Invited Professor, Universit´e Paul Sabatier (Toulouse 3) (one month, 2004) - Visiting Scientist, Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC):
Universidade Federal do Paran´a (one month, 2005) - Invited Professor, Universit´e Bordeaux 1 (one month, 2005)
- Visiting Professor, Universit`a di Roma “La Sapienza” (Roma 1) (one month, 2005) - Visiting Fellow, Weierstrass Institute of Applied Analysis and Stochastics (one
month, 2006)
- Invited Professor, Universit´e Bordeaux 1 (one month, 2008) - Invited Professor, ´Ecole Polytechnique (one month, 2009)
- Senior Researcher, Plasmax Project, La Fondation de Coop´eration Scientifique STAE:
Universit´e Paul Sabatier (Toulouse 3) (three months, 2010)
- Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (one month, 2010)
- Research Fellow, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Math- ematics (ICERM), Brown University and Peabody Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (two months, 2011)
- Invited Professor, ´Ecole Polytechnique (one month, 2013) - Invited Professor, ´Ecole Polytechnique (one month, 2015)
- Visiting Professor, Capital Normal University (one month, 2019) - Visiting Professor, Universit`a di Parma (three months, 2019)
(Conferences)
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the Fourth International Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Fluid and Plasma Dynamics (Oct. 2 – 5, 1991, Kyoto, Japan)
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- Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Symposia on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (from July, 2000 to July 2016)
- Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Sixth International Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Fluid and Plasma Dynamics (Sept. 19 – 23, 2004, Kyoto, Japan)
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the 26th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (July 19 – 24, 2008, Kyoto)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Summer School on Methods and Models of Kinetic Theory (M & MKT) (Porto Ercole, Italy) (from January 2008 to June 2016)
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the ICERM Workshop on Boltzmann Models in Kinetic Theory (Nov. 7 – 11, 2011, Providence, USA)
– Organizing Member of the Conference on Kinetic Theory and Related Fields: The- oretical and Numerical Approaches (Sept. 24 – 28, 2012, Kyoto, Japan)
– Organizing Member of the RIMS Workshop, Kinetic Modeling and Related Equa- tions: Conference in Memory of Seiji Ukai (Oct. 28 – 30, 2013, Kyoto, Japan) – Organizing Member of the Conference, Recent Advances on Particle Systems in
Kinetic Theory: A Celebration of Sasha Bobylev’s Impact in the Mathematics and Computations of Kinetic Theory (May 8 – 12, 2017, Austin, USA)
– Organizing Member of the International Conference Nonlinear Analysis: Kinetic Theory, Gas Dynamics, and Related Fields (Oct. 28 – 31, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan) – Member of the Scientific Committee of INdAM Workshop on Recent Advances in
Kinetic Equations and Applications (Nov. 11–15, 2019, Rome, Italy)
(Editorial boards)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Kinetic and Related Models (American Institute of Mathematical Sciences) (from January 2008 to December 2011)
- One of the three Editors-in-Chief of Kinetic and Related Models (American Institute of Mathematical Sciences) (from January 2012 to December 2020)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Fluid Dynamics Research (IOP Publishing) (from January 2009 to present)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Rivista Matematica della Universit`a di Parma (Universit`a di Parma) (from January 2010 to present)
- Member of the Editorial Board (Associate Editor) of Acta Applicandae Mathemat- icae (Springer Netherlands) (from January 2010 to present)
- Member of the Editorial Board (Associate Editor) of Communications in Compu- tational Physics (Global Science Press) (from January 2010 to December 2016) – Member of Advisory Editorial Board of the series Modeling and Simulation in
Science, Engineering and Technology (Springer–Birk¨auser Boston) (from January 2015 to present)
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