※ Affiliations and titles are as of the end of the research activity.
Research Supervisor
Yasumasa Nishiura（Professor PI, WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University）
Overview
Alliance for Breakthrough between Mathematics and Sciences (ABMS) is a grant program established for supporting research activities in mathematical science. It is in particular designed for such a research activity by mathematical scientists that is motivated by social needs, conducted in cooperation with scientists in non-mathematical fields, and is expected to make a scientific breakthrough. It may be viewed as attempting to integrate the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Bacon in the 21st century.
The program will cover studies of the mathematical problems in diverse fields of science: materials science, life science, environmental science, information science, telecommunication science, financial engineering, etc. Research activities in other fields will also be within the scope of the program if those activities propose new research topics arising from social needs, and explore mathematical approaches to those topics.
Priority will be given to such a research activity that develops new mathematical ideas through the study of natural or social phenomena in a field of science while applying existing mathematical methods to that study. The program therefore emphasizes research activity which contributes to the integration of mathematical and experimental sciences.
The program will cover studies of the mathematical problems in diverse fields of science: materials science, life science, environmental science, information science, telecommunication science, financial engineering, etc. Research activities in other fields will also be within the scope of the program if those activities propose new research topics arising from social needs, and explore mathematical approaches to those topics.
Priority will be given to such a research activity that develops new mathematical ideas through the study of natural or social phenomena in a field of science while applying existing mathematical methods to that study. The program therefore emphasizes research activity which contributes to the integration of mathematical and experimental sciences.
Research Area Advisors
| Masafumi Akahira |
| Tsutomu Ikeda |
| Takayuki Oda |
| Tadao Oda |
| Hiroakira Ono |
| Riichi Takahashi |
| Ichiro Tsuda |
| Hideo Nagai |
| Reiko Miyaoka |
| Tomohiko Yamaguchi |
| Akihiko Nomizu |
Year Started: 2008
Research Director
Motoko Kotani (Professor, AIMR, Tohoku University)
- Tadafumi Adschiri (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Yoshiyuki Kawazoe (Tohoku University)
Research Director
Ryo Kobayashi (Professor, Hiroshima University)
- Akio Ishiguro (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Professor, Hokkaido University)
Research Director
Takayuki Hibi (Professor, Osaka University)
- Satoshi Aoki (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University)
- Hidefumi Ohsugi (Professor, College of Science, Rikkyo University)
- Tatsuo Otsu (Professor, National Center for University Entrance Examinations)
- Satoshi Kuriki (Professor)
- Nobuki Takayama (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University)
- Akiko Takeda (Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
- Akimichi Takemura (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
- Kohtaro Tadaki (Chuo University)
- Tatsuyoshi Hamada (Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University)
Year Started: 2009
Research Director
Shinichi Oishi (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
- Takeshi Ogita (Professor, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)
- Katsuhisa Ozaki (Professor, College of Systems Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Research Director
Hiroshi Kokubu (Executive Vice-President, Kyoto University)
- Shinya Aoi
- Toshio Aoyagi (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
- Kazuo Tsuchiya (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University)
Research Director
Arturo Kohatsu-Higa (Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)
- Masayuki Uchida (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University)
Research Director
Yoshihiro Shibata (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
- Masahito Asai (Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
- Makoto Iima (Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University)
- Shohei Takagi (Professor, Muroran Institute of Technology)
- Jiro Mizushima (Professor, Doshisha University)
- Katsuhiro Yamamoto (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
- Hiroaki Yoshimura (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
Research Director
Takashi Suzuki (Specially Appointed Professor (Full time), Center for Mathematical Modeling and Data Science, Osaka University)
- Motoharu Seiki (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
- Yoshinori Murakami (Professor, INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, The University of Tokyo)
Year Started: 2010
Research Director
Kenichi Anjyo
- Hiroyuki Ochiai (Professor, Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University)
- Yoshinori Dobashi (Hokkaido University)
Research Director
Takashi Sakajo (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
- Zin Arai (Professor, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Takashi Ishihara (Nagoya University)
Research Director
Hiroshi Suito (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Kouhei Inoue (Chiba University Hospital, Chiba University)
- Takuya Ueda (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Norikazu Saito (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
- Kenji Takizawa (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
- Yoshitaka Masutani (Professor, Hiroshima City University)
Research Director
Kokichi Sugihara (Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties, Meiji University)
- Hitoshi Araii (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
- Yasushi Yamaguchi (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Research Director
Masaharu Nagayama (Professor, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University)
- Mitsuhiro Dennda
