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Our publication
Textbook
A textbook "Multiphysics in Nanostructures" has been published from Springer.
To join our group
Student program:
If you have got a scholarship and your scientific interest is within the scope of our group, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be happy to help you find possibility to join us as grad students in Master's or doctorate course.
IMPORTANT! Please check out the research topics in our group and make sure they match what you are interested in. If your background is obviously different from the scope of our research interest, we may not respond to your inquiry about the possibility of joining us.
IME is a graduate program offered by the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo for non-Japanese students. If you wish to join our group, please consider applying for the Master or Doctor program through IME.
Students in some countries have a channel to obtain a scholarship offered by the Japanese education ministry (MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) thruough nomination by the Embassy of the country. If you are one of them and interested in our group, please contact us for further information.
In principle, we do not accept 'research students' (研究生) except for the case of nomination by embassies or equivalent. Lately we are receiving tons of e-mails asking for the possibility of being accepted as research students, but such contacts will not be answered unless you've got a nomination from Embassy or a similar status.
Post-doc:
If you want to work on a research topic of your own idea and plan, postdoctoral fellowship programs offered by JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) may support you. We are happy to help you apply for JSPS scholarship that enables stay in Japan up to two years with good salary.
Contact address:
When you contact us inquiring possibility of joining us, please send us your CV. Besides your personal information, you must describe your educational record, research interest, former research activities and what made you interested in joining us. Please also inform us about your brief research plan and prospect of obtaining financial support (getting a scholarship or self-supporting).
Recommended reading materials for students
Fundamental theories for deformation and fracture of solids
Physical Basis of Plasticity in Solids
Jean-Claude Toledano (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
ISBN: 978-981-4374-05-7
Fracture Mechanics: With an Introduction to Micromechanics
D. Gross and T. Seelig
ISBN: 978-3319710891
Computational methods for multiscale modeling
Computational Materials Science: The Simulation of Materials, Microstructures and Properties
Dierk Raabe
ISBN: 978-3527295418
Computational Materials Science: An Introduction
June Gunn Lee
ISBN: 1439836167 / 978-1439836163
Multiscale materials modelling: Fundamentals and applications
Edited by Z. Xiao Guo
ISBN: 987-1-84569-071-7 / 978-0-8493-9110-1
Modeling Materials: Continuum, Atomistic and Multiscale Techniques
Ellad Tadmor and Ronald Miller
ISBN: 0521856981 / 978-0521856980
Molecular dynamics method
The Art of Molecular Dynamics Simulation
D.C. Rapaport
ISBN: 978-0521825689
Computer Simulation of Liquids
M.P. Allen and D.J. Tildesley
ISBN: 978-0198803201
First-principles (ab initio) method (and its applications)
Multiphysics in Nanostructures
Y. Umeno, T. Shimada, Y. Kinoshita and T. Kitamura
ISBN: 978-4431565710
First-principles approaches to intrinsic strength and deformation of materials: perfect crystals, nano-structures, surfaces and interfaces
S. Ogata, Y. Umeno and M. Kohyama
(Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 17 (2009), 013001)
Ab initio calculations of mechanical properties: Methods and applications
J. Pokluda, M. Cerny, M. Sob and Y. Umeno
(Progress in Materials Science 73 (2015) pp.127-158 doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2015.04.001)