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ITAMI Masato

Doctor of Science, Kyoto University, Japan, 2016

Areas of specialization Statistical Physics
Laboratory/research office
Current research topics Statistical mechanical foundations of fluid mechanics and fluctuating hydrodynamics Heat-flow-induced forces Stochastic equations for the time evolution of slow degrees of freedom in nonequilibrium systems
Educational background 2016: Doctor, Kyoto University
2013: Master, The University of Tokyo
2011: Bachelor, The University of Tokyo
Professional background 2025-2026: Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
2021-2025: Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Center for Science Adventure and Collaborative Research Advancement, Kyoto University
2020-2021: JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Department of Physics, Nagoya University
2019-2020: Program-Specific Researcher, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
2016-2019: FIFC Fellow, Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University
Licenses
Academic societies The Physical Society of Japan

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Courses

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Undergraduate school
  • Sicence Informatics
  • Biophysics
  • Statistics
Graduate school
  • Advanced StatisticsⅡ

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Research activities

Research papers
  1. Authors: Kazuma Yokota, Masato Itami, Shin-ichi Sasa
    Title: Unifying renormalized and bare viscosity in two-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations
    Journal: Physical Review Research, Vol. 8, p. 013234, American Physical Society
    Year: 2026
  2. Authors: Hiroshi Horii, Raphaël Lefevere, Masato Itami, Takahiro Nemoto
    Title: Anomalous fluctuations of renewal-reward processes with heavy-tailed distributions
    Journal: Physical Review E, Vol. 106, p. 034130, American Physical Society
    Year: 2022
  3. Authors: Shin-ichi Sasa, Naoko Nakagawa, Masato Itami, Yohei Nakayama
    Title: Stochastic order parameter dynamics for phase coexistence in heat conduction
    Journal: Physical Review E, Vol. 103, p. 062129, American Physical Society
    Year: 2021
  4. Authors: Masato Itami, Yohei Nakayama, Naoko Nakagawa, Shin-ichi Sasa
    Title: Effective Langevin equations leading to large deviation function of time-averaged velocity for a nonequilibrium Rayleigh piston
    Journal: Physical Review E, Vol. 103, p. 022125, American Physical Society
    Year: 2021
  5. Authors: Atsumasa Seya, Tatsuya Aoyagi, Masato Itami, Yohei Nakayama, Naoko Nakagawa
    Title: Multiplicative Langevin equation to reproduce long-time properties of nonequilibrium Brownian motion
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Vol. 2020, p. 013201, IOP Publishing and International School for Advanced Studies
    Year: 2020
  6. Authors: Masato Itami, Shin-ichi Sasa
    Title: Singular behaviour of time-averaged stress fluctuations on surfaces
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Vol. 2018, p. 123210, IOP Publishing and International School for Advanced Studies
    Year: 2018
  7. Authors: Masato Itami, Shin-ichi Sasa
    Title: Universal Form of Stochastic Evolution for Slow Variables in Equilibrium Systems
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 167, pp. 46-63, Springer Nature
    Year: 2017
  8. Authors: Masato Itami, Shin-ichi Sasa
    Title: Derivation of Stokes' Law from Kirkwood's Formula and the Green–Kubo Formula via Large Deviation Theory
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 161, pp. 532-552, Springer Nature
    Year: 2015
  9. Authors: Masato Itami, Shin-ichi Sasa
    Title: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics for Adiabatic Piston Problem
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 158, pp. 37-56, Springer Nature
    Year: 2015
  10. Authors: Masato Itami, Shin-ichi Sasa
    Title: Macroscopically measurable force induced by temperature discontinuities at solid-gas interfaces
    Journal: Physical Review E, Vol. 89, p. 052106, American Physical Society
    Year: 2014

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Social activities

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