About me

My name is Kensuke Yoshizawa (吉澤 研介), and I am an associate professor at Faculty of Education, Nagasaki University.

• Email: k-yoshizaw [AT] nagasaki-u.ac.jp

I am interested in calculus of variations and differential equations. More precisely, 

• Variational problems for geometric functionals,

• Obstacle problems for elliptic or parabolic equations.

Keywords: bending energy, minimizing movements, shooting method. 

News

• 29 May 2026: 弾性曲線に関する研究計画が「令和7年度長崎大学若手研究者躍進支援プログラム LEAP」に採択されました。

• 26 Dec 2025: A note including a survey of obstacle problems for the bending energy is available on arXiv!

• 15 Aug 2025: A new preprint (with Tatsuya Miura) is available on arXiv!

Short CV

• I received my PhD from Tohoku University in March 2022. My PhD thesis was written under the supervision of Professor Shinya Okabe.

• I am from Hirosaki city (Japan), which is famous for apples.

• Other information: Researchmap, Mathscinet.

Contacts

• Affrication: Faculty of Education, Nagasaki University

• Address: 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki, Japan, 852-8521

• Email: k-yoshizaw [AT] nagasaki-u.ac.jp