Curriculum Vitae

Name: Junichiro Makino

Office Address:

Center for Computational Astrophysics,
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,
2-21-1 Ohsawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
phone: 81-422-34-3738
fax  : 81-422-37-3746

Nationality: Japan

Date of birth: 6 Jan. 1963

Education:

Apr. 1981 --- Mar. 1985: Department of Natural and Artificial Systems, University of Tokyo
Apr. 1985 --- Mar. 1987: Department of General System Study, University of Tokyo (Master course)
Mar. 1987: Received the Degree of Master of Arts and Sciences
Apr. 1987 --- Mar. 1990: Department of General System Study, University of Tokyo (Doctor course)
Mar. 1990: Received Ph. D. Degree

Positions:

1990-1994 Research associate at University of Tokyo
1994-2006 Associate professor at University of Tokyo
2006- Professor at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Activities

Participant of the Program on Dense Stellar Systems at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 1993 --- Dec. 1993.
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the workshop on N-body simulations of star clusters and planetary systems, Lake Tahoe, California, June 6-9, 1994.
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference on Chaos in gravitational N-body systems (La Plata, Aug. 1995)
Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the I.A.U. Symposium 174 on Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters (Tokyo, Aug. 1995); editor of the proceedings (w. Prof. P. Hut).
Associate Editor, Computer in Physics, 1996-1998.
Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the Conference on International Symposium on Supercomputing --- New Horizon of Computational Science (Tokyo, Sept. 1997).
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference "The Chaotic Universe" (Rome, Feb. 1999)
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for International Spring Meeting of the ``Astronomische Gesellschaft'', ``Dynamics of Star Clusters and the Milky Way'' --- The challenges for stellar dynamics, computing, and observations for the Milky Way, star clusters (Heiderberg, March 2000)
Member of the International Coodinating Committee for MG9 (Rome, August 2000)
Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee for IAU Symposium 208, Astrophysical Supercomputing Using Particles (co-chair with P. Hut) (Tokyo, July. 2001).
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for IAU GA JD11 (Sidney, July, 2003)
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for IAU GA JD14 (Prague, August, 2006)
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for IAU Symposium 246 (Capri, Sept, 2007)

Awards:

1995 IEEE Gordon Bell Prize
1996 IEEE Gordon Bell Prize
1998 Astronomical Society of Japan Hayashi Chushiro Prize
1999 IEEE Gordon Bell Prize
2000 IEEE Gordon Bell Prize
2001 IEEE Gordon Bell Prize
2002 Best Paper Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
2003 IEEE Gordon Bell Prize

Recent research topics

Formation and growth of black holes in dense star clusters
(with T. Ebisuzaki, H. Baumgardt, P. Hut, S. McMillan, S. Portegies Zwart, Y. Funato and others)
Evolution of binary black holes
(with Y. Funato)
Realistic modeling of globular clusters
(with H. Baumgatdt,
High-resolution simulation of structure of CDM halo
(with T. Fukushige)
Numerical methods for N-body systems
Special-purpose computers for N-body simulations

List of publications (up to 2003) Last Update: Sept 21, 2006