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

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

• 17 Jul 2025: 研究集会「長崎大学における微分方程式セミナー（通算第47回）」を開催しました。ご参加いただいた皆様、誠にありがとうございました。

• 27 Mar 2025: 岡部真也教授(東北大学)にご執筆いただいた「吉澤研介氏の第41回（2024年度）井上研究奨励賞受賞に寄せて」という記事が数学通信第30巻第1号に掲載されました。岡部先生にこの場を借りて厚く御礼申し上げます。

• 9 Apr 2025: A new preprint (with Marius Müller) is available on arXiv!

• 5 Feb 2025: I received 41st Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists!

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