Tetsuya Nakamura

I was born and grew up in Japan. I completed the primary and middle educations as  well as bachelor degree. I then moved to Tuebingen, Germany to study mathematics. I have earned Diplom degree there, which was a good old curriculum in the high education in Germany. Practically the title corresponds to master. I further continued my study in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, and earned Ph.D. degree.  Since April 2023 I am teaching at NUCB International College in Aichi Japan. 

Beside mathematics I was a member of Tuebingen Hawks, a baseball team. This sport is still an important part of my life. Furthermore I have been enjoying learning languages, among which Korean is my recent trend. I also have been into planting vegetables and herbs in the garden recently. I love cooking using them.   

You find my CV here.

I have been working on constant mean curvature (CMC) 1 surfaces in 3 dimensional hyperbolic space, which was my thesis work under the advisory by Prof. Franz Pedit. Expressing Robert Bryant's holomorphic representation by spinors, I have constructed examples of such surfaces with genus 0.  I have mainly treated CMC 1 surfaces with those ends which are conformally extended to a boundary point of the hyperbolic Poincare ball as a surface sitting in 3 dimensional Euclidean space. We call such ends smooth. I have encountered many interesting aspects associated with such surfaces which include (constrained) Willmore problems, Darboux transformations as well as Picard potentials in case that we consider genus 1 surfaces. These would be the topics of the next projects. 

My thesis is available here. 

I keep having a great interest in teaching mathematics in  every setting of educations. During my math study, teaching was naturally a part of my life. I would be very glad if I could help people see mathematics beautiful and interesting. I hope that everyone in the world, no matter where they are born, get a chance to learn mathematics. My teaching experience is as follows, where private tutoring is not included, 

2023 - : Teaching Japanese and IB Curriculum at NUCB International College, Japan.

2015 - 2022: Teaching undergraduate courses (ODE, Calculus, Linear Algebra) and TA at University of Massachusetts Amherst

2019 - 2021: Teaching Pre-Calculus and Calculus at the Hartsbrook School

2018, 2019: TA in SCS Noonan Summer School held at Amherst College

2008 - 2015: Leading discussion sessions for graduate courses at University of Tuebingen, Germany

2015: Teaching a preparation class for Abitur final exam at Wilhelm Schickard High School in Tuebingen

2011 - 2012: Teaching highschool students at a private cram school in Reutlingen, Germany

2006: Practical teaching training at Toho Middle/High School, Japan (requirement for teaching licence)

Teaching materials I have prepared for above classes are available here.