Visiting Professors

Professor Takashi Nishimura is an eminent mathematician, specialist in differential topology and its applications. He is affiliated with the Institute of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan.

Professor Cecilia Haskins is a distinguished specialist in systems engineering. She is affiliated with the Department of Production and Quality Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Professor Terence G. Langdon is an eminent specialist in materials science. He is affiliated both with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California (USA ) and Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton (UK).

Professor Gerd Rudolph is a distinguished physicist, specialist in mathematical physics, affiliated with Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig.

Professor Seiji Kuroda – renowned specialist in materials engineering whose research is focused on thermal barrier coatings; director of High Temperature Materials Unit, Environment and Energy Materials Division, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan.

Professor Goo Ishikawa – mathematician specialising in singularity theory of mappings, symplectic and contact geometry, real algebraic geometry; graduate of Kyoto University, Japan, at present affiliated with Hokkaido University, Japan.