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Tomoki Ohsawa

Tomoki Ohsawa

Associate Professor – Mathematical Sciences
 
972-883-6560
FO 3.704C
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Professional Preparation

Ph.D. - Applied Mathematics
University of Michigan - 2010
M.S. - Physics
University of Michigan - 2008
M.A.Sc. - Aerospace Engineering
University of Toronto - 2005
M.Eng. - Aeronautics & Astronautics
Kyoto University - 2003
B.Eng. - Aeronautics & Astronautics
Kyoto University - 2001

Research Areas

Hamiltonian dynamics, geometric mechanics, mathematical physics, geometric control, geometric numerical integration

Publications

Shape dynamics of N point vortices on the sphere 2023 - Journal Article
Preservation of Quadratic Invariants by Semiexplicit Symplectic Integrators for Nonseparable Hamiltonian Systems 2023 - Journal Article
Controlled Lagrangians and stabilization of Euler–Poincaré mechanical systems with broken symmetry II: potential shaping 2022 - Journal Article
Controlled Lagrangians and Stabilization of Euler--Poincaré Mechanical Systems with Broken Symmetry I: Kinetic Shaping 2022 - Journal Article
Approximation of semiclassical expectation values by symplectic Gaussian wave packet dynamics 2021 - Journal Article
Controlled Lagrangians and stabilization of Euler–Poincaré mechanical systems with broken symmetry II: potential shaping 2021 - Journal Article
Hamiltonian Dynamics of Semiclassical Gaussian Wave Packets in Electromagnetic Potentials 2020 - Journal Article
Geometric Kinematic Control of a Spherical Rolling Robot 2020 - Journal Article

Awards

Notable Paper Award - The 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics [2020]
Simons Visiting Professorship - Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach and Simons Foundation [2015]
Government of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (declined) - Government of Canada [2012]

Funding

Stabilization of mechanical systems with broken symmetry
$240,574 - NSF [2018/08–2022/07]
Shape Dynamics of Vortices: Theory and Numerics
$164,965 - NSF [2020/08]