Yoshikazu Giga
Professor of Mathematics
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Topics: Navier-Stokes equation, nonlinear PDEs

Yoshikazu Giga is a Professor of Mathematics at the Hokkaido University and one of leading experts in the mathematical analysis for nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations. In his twenty three research career his research interests have included analysis on the Navier-Stokes equations, blow-up phenomena for semilinear heat equations, surface evolution equations, and viscosity solutions.

Yoshikazu was born in Tokyo, Japan, and studied at the University of Tokyo before taking his Ph.D there. In his early career he stayed at the Courant Institute as a postdoc as well as at other institutions, before he moved to the mathematics department of the Hokkaido University in 1986. He was an Andrejewski lecturer of the Humbolt University and a Rudolph-Lipschitz lecturer of the University of Bonn in 1997.

He was awarded the Nissan Science Prize for his analysis of singuralities in nonlinear parabolic equations in 1997. He was awarded the Autumn Prize 1999 by the Mathematical Society of Japan for his contribution on surface evolution equations. He has served as an editor of several scientific journals including `Mathematische Annalen' and `SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis'. He has been elected a member of the executive committee of the Mathematical Society of Japan.

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Last modified: July 30th, 2003