Curriculum Vitae
Name: Yutaka Ishii
Date of birth: March 4, 1970
Place of birth: Yokohama, Japan
Civil status: married, two children
Nationality: Japanese
Languages: Japanese > English > French > Hakata dialect
Research areas:
dynamical systems (in particular, complex dynamics, symbolic dynamics, and fractals)
Key words are
Lozi maps: kneading theory, pruning front, lap number formula, monotonicity of entropy.
Hénon maps (real and complex): hyperbolicity, Hubbard trees, iterated monodromy groups, automata, horseshoe locus.
Visualization of 4-dimensional spaces: virtual reality systems, binocular disparity, motion parallax.
Academic degrees:
Eiko High School, graduated in March 1988.
B. Sc., "mainly in mathematics'', Kyoto University, March 1992.
M. Sc., mathematics, Kyoto University, March 1994.
Ph. D., mathematical sciences, University of Tokyo, March 1998.
Thesis title: A kneading theory for Lozi mappings.
Thesis advisor: Professor Mitsuhiro Shishikura (currently at Kyoto University)
Positions held:
JSPS research fellow (DC1), University of Tokyo, April 1994 - March 1997.
Research associate, Department of Mathematics, Kyushu University, January 1998 - August 2003.
Maitre de conférence (mois d'invité), Université Paris-Sud (Orsay), France, March 2002 - April 2002.
Associate professor, Department of Mathematics, Kyushu University, September 2003 - November 2018.
Professeur invité, Université de Rennes, France, May 2006.
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Kyushu University, December 2018 - to date.
Intensive courses:
"Data storage and symbolic dynamics'', at Tokushima University (2002).
"Dynamics of complex Hénon maps'', at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2005).
"Dynamics of complex Hénon maps'', at Hokkaido University (2005).
"Data storage and symbolic dynamics'', at Kyoto University (2008).
"Hyperbolicity in holomorphic dynamics'', at Nagoya University (2014).
Research visits (long term and invited only):
Université Paris-Sud (Orsay), France, July 1994 - August 1996.
IMS, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA, November 1997 - December 1997.
Cornell University, USA, October 1999 - September 2000 (sabbatical).
Université Paris-Sud (Orsay), France, March 2001.
Cornell University, USA, September 2001.
Université Paris-Sud (Orsay), France, March 2002 - April 2002.
RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan, September 2003 - December 2003 (sabbatical).
Institut Henri Poincaré, France, January 2004 - February 2004 (sabbatical).
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, November 2005.
Université de Rennes, France, May 2006.
Ecole Polytechnique, France, March 2010 - March 2011 (sabbatical).
Visitors:
Vincent Naudot (Kyoto University, Japan), 1998.
Duncan Sands (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), July 1998.
John H. Hubbard (Cornell University, USA and Université de Provence, France), May 2001.
Charles Favre (CNRS and Université de Paris VII, France), July 2003.
Pieter Collins (CWI, The Netherlands), February 2005.
Yi-Chiuan Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), November - December 2006.
Anton Zorich (Université de Rennes, France), May 2008.
David Burguet (Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan, France), September 2011.
Yi-Chiuan Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), October 2011.
Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M University, USA), January 2012.
Dzmitry Dudko (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany), December 2012.
Yosef Yomdin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), July 2013.
David Burguet (Université de Paris 6, France), July 2013.
Juan Rivera-Letelier (Ponticia Universidad Catolica, Chile), July 2013.
Gabriel Vigny (Université de Picardie, France), July 2013.
Gang Liao (IMPA, Brazil), July 2013.
Eric Bedford (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), August 2014.
John Smillie (Warwick University, UK), August 2014.
Giulio Tiozzo (Yale University, USA), December 2014.
Laurent Bartholdi (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany), February 2015.
Romain Dujardin (Université de Paris-Est, France), December 2015.
Serge Cantat (Université de Rennes, France), December 2015.