Prof. Dr. Takao Ohta

Profile

Academic positionEmeritus
Research fieldsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics,Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
KeywordsBlockcopolymere, Nichtgleichgewichtsthermodynamik, Strukturbildung, komplexe Fluide, stochastische Prozesse

Current contact address

CountryJapan
CityMatsumoto
InstitutionKyoto University
InstituteKyoto University Institute for Advanced Study

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Heiner Müller-KrumbhaarInstitut für Festkörperforschung, Theorie 3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich
Prof. Dr. Helmut R. BrandLehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Hartmut LöwenInstitut für Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Gerhard ErtlAbteilung Physikalische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Motomu TanakaLehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie von Biosystemen, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Gerhard ErtlLehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Heiner Müller-KrumbhaarLehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Hartmut LöwenLehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Motomu TanakaLehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2008

Programme(s)

2007Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Ohta is a world leader in theoretical physics working on soft condensed matter and nonequilibrium processes. He has made outstanding contributions to the theory of the equilibrium structures and the kinetics of block copolymers as well as to interface dynamics and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion equations in nonequilibrium systems. In Germany, Prof. Ohta will advance his research on complex fluids as well as on pattern formation at interfaces and in reaction-diffusion systems.

Publications (partial selection)

2010Takahiro Ohkuma and Takao Ohta: Deformable self-propelled particles with a global coupling. In: CHAOS, 2010, 023101-1-023101-13
2010Y. Tonosaki, T. Ohta , and V. Zykov: Phase description of nonlinear dissipative waves under space time-dependent external forcing. In: Physica D, 2010, 1718-1722
2009Takao Ohta, Tesuya Hiraiwa: Viscoelasticity of a Single Semiflixible Polymer Chain. In: Macromolecules, 2009, 7553-7562