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 Thank you for visiting Kenichiro Umezu's Webpage.   
 
 Kenichiro Umezu is now an associate professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Engineering of Maebashi Institute of Technology ("MaebIT" shortly), Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.  
 
 He was born on 29 March, 1965, in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.  
 He graduated from Saitama Prefectural Kasukabe High School in 1983.  
 He graduated from College of Natural Sciences, First Cluster of Colleges of University of Tsukuba in 1988, where he studied mathematics, especially functional analysis under the adviser Professor Kazuaki Taira.  
 
 He finished the Doctoral Program in Mathematics, University of Tsukuba in 1993 and received a doctorate of mathematics.  
 
 He was a research associate at the Institute of Mathematics of University of Tsukuba during 1993-1997.  
 He was an assistant professor during 1997-2001 and has been an associate professor since 2001 at the Faculty of Engineering of Maebashi Institute of Technology.  
 The Maebashi Institute of Technology has been changed on April, 2007.  
 K. Umezu moved to Department of Integrated Design, Maebashi Institute of 
 Technology.   
 
 His research field includes nonlinear partial differential equations.  
 He has interested in particular in nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems. 
 He prefers to problems arising from natural phenomena, e.g., population dynamics, chemical combustion, fermentation.  He prefers to Neumann, Robin and 
 nonlinear boundary conditions as a law on the boundary of domains in which 
 he considers differential equations.  Main tools he uses for analyzing nonlinear problems are purely mathematical from nonlinear functional 
 analysis, which include fixed point theory, iteration scheme, variational 
 method, Lyapunov-Schmidt procedure, implicit function theorem and 
 degree theory.  Please visit List of Publications for his works.  
 
 
 Note that the Maebashi Institute has two professors similarly named "Umetsu" and "Umezu". Named in Chinese characters, they are given the same "梅津". The confusion often makes the people who want to contact "梅津" 
 mistake "Umezu" for "Umetsu". Please visit [[Prof. Tsuyoshi Umetsu:http://oo.spokon.net/]] specializing in hydrodynamics if you are interested in the "梅津".  
 
 Kenichiro Umezu lived in Toyohama, Kagawa in 1965-1969, Ohita in 1969-1973, Saginomiya of Nakano, Tokyo in 1973-1976, Kasukabe, Saitama in 1976-1984, Tsukuba, Ibaraki in 1984-1997, and has lived in Maebashi since 1997.  
 
 Maebashi is a city approximately with 0.3 million population, the capital of Gunma Prefecture.  This is located at the north from Tokyo, the capital 
 of Japan, by 80km.  It takes about 2 hours to Maebashi from Tokyo, only by using local trains. Takasaki has a terminal station having a stop of the super-express "Joetsu-Shinkansen" and "Nagano-Shinkansen".  The Nagano one bifurcates from the Joetu one at Takasaki station. There is a short distance from Maebashi to Takasaki.  You can move between the two cities within 30minitues both by train and by car. The train line is local and is named "Ryomo-sen".  If you uses the Shinkan-sen and transfer at Takasaki, then you can reach Maebashi within one and half hour, starting Tokyo.  
 Visiters from abroad are recommended to use the highway bus "Azalea-Express" to reach Maebashi, getting a start at Narita Int. Airport.  
 It takes 3 and half hours for getting to Maebashi from the airport 
 and you need to pay just 4.5 thousand yen for the bus.  
 
 He loves to play sports. Of his particular favorite are Baseball, tennis, table-tennis, soccer, jogging, weight-training, bicycle and golf. 
 But golf is far from him recently. He loves also fountain pens.  
 
 If you have little interest in mathematics, his works, or just himself, then he apologizes for making you waste a lot of time to stay here.  This is the case when you are strongly recommended to visit [[another page:http://umeken.sakura.ne.jp/tai/taiwiki/index.php]]. (2007-10-16)