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Japanese

About myself

• Birthdate, Birthplace: Born on August 1, 1957 in Kofu Yamanashi Japan

  Kofu is a city about 80 miles west of Tokyo. The climate is similar to that of Oklahoma. It is surrounded by mountains and one of them is Mt. Fuji. Mt. Fuji is about 1 hour and half from Kofu

• Family: Married to Miho Yukie with two daughters Mayu (5 years old) and Tomomi (2 years old)
• Education:
  • Ph. D. Harvard University 1986
  • BS University of Tokyo 1980
• Employment:
  • Professor Tohoku University 1999-
  • Associate Professor OSU 1995-1999
  • Assistant Professor OSU 1989-1995
  • Guest Professor at SFB 170 Goettingen Germany 1990-1991
  • Member of Institute for Advanced Study Princeton 1989-1990
  • Visiting Assistant Professor OSU 1987-1989
  • Tamarkin Assistant Professor Brown University 1985-1987
• Mathematical interest: Geometric Invariant Theory, Zeta functions for prehomogeneous vector spaces. Applications to the Oppenheim conjecture.

Lectures on rational orbit decompositions of prehomogeneous vector spaces

Anyone who wants the lecture note of my course on prehomogeneous vector spaces can copy its gzipped ps file course.ps.gz .

Recent preprints

• On the density of unnormalized Tamagawa numbers of orthogonal groups I
• On the density of unnormalized Tamagawa numbers of orthogonal groups II
• On the density of unnormalized Tamagawa numbers of orthogonal groups III
• My student's alledged solution of the Dirichlet divisor problem turned out to be wrong.
• Morimoto's master thesis On generalized $p$-adic Whittaker functions on $GSp(4)$

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