Overview

The Department of Mathematics at Hokkaido University, established in 1930, has approximately 40 academic staff, 150 undergraduate students (2nd–4th year), and 100 masters/doctoral graduate students.

Features

The research fields include hyperplane arrangements, representation theory, differential geometry, singularity theory, partial differential equations, mathematical physics, chaos, probability theory, dynamical systems, and so on. We have published the Hokkaido Mathematical Journal since 1972 in collaboration with the Mathematics Library, which contains about 100,000 books and accepts about 350 titles of journals annually.

Our recent major achievements and participating programs are: (1) Japan Science and Technology Agency, Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST), Research Area: Modeling Methods allied with Modern Mathematics, Project: Theory on mathematical modeling for spatio-temporal patterns arising in biology (Research Supervisor: Shin-Ichiro Ei), (2) Japan Science and Technology Agency, Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST), Research Area: Technology for Computing Revolution for Society 5.0, Project: Optimization problems and their solutions with safe and secure quality validation based on mathematics (Research collaborator: Akira Sakai), (3) Promotion Office for Integrative Mathematics, (4)Hokkaido University Ambitious Leader’s Program, (5) Ph.Discover (A project of Graduate school of Science, Hokkaido University).

Programme Structure

Curriculum:

Modeling Methods allied with Modern Mathematics

Theory on mathematical modeling for spatio-temporal patterns arising in biology

Strategic Basic Research

Integrative Mathematics

Mathematics

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-04-01 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Sapporo, Japan

Disciplines

Mathematics View 6 other PhDs in Mathematics in Japan

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

The application will be accepted online for students who cannot come to Japan to take the entrance examination.

A research student is defined as part-time students enrolled in a course for short-term research (6 months-1 year) and not to obtain a degree. Some students use this period to prepare for entrance into a regular course (Master’s or Doctoral Course).

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

535800 JPY / year

≈ 535800 JPY / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

535800 JPY / year

≈ 535800 JPY / year

Living costs

Sapporo-shi

Japan

111200 - 165260 JPY / month

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