Masao Mori

Associate Professor, Ph.D.

• Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
• Master's/Doctor's Program in Physics, University of Tsukuba
• Degree Programs in Education, The College of Education, University of Tsukuba

• Visiting Associate Professor at University of California,Los Angeles (Feb. 2005 - Mar. 2006)
• Visiting Researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy (Aug. 1998 - Aug. 1999)

Research Interests

  Physics of Dark Matter Haloes

• Dynamical structure of cold dark matter haloes and origin of scaling laws
• Tidal interactions in sub-galactic dark matter haloes
• Formation of dark-matter-deficient galaxies
• Effects of Landau resonances on the cusp-core problem in cold dark matter models
• Missing satellite problem in cold dark matter models and the collision of dark matter sub-haloes

  Galacy Collisions

• Galaxy collisions and self-gravitational hydrodynamic instabilities
• Galaxy collisions and the interstellar medium in a galaxy disk
• Formation of the Andromeda Giant Southern Stream

  Galaxy formation

• Formation and evolution of proto-galaxies
• Formation of Lyman alpha emitters

  Galaxy evolution

• Supernova-driven galactic wind
• An analytical model of transonic galactic winds

  Galactic Habitable Zone

• Galaxy Collisions and Galactic Habitable Zone

  Development and acceleration of numerical simulation codes

• Development of an ultra-high accuracy fluid dynamics simulation code (Godunov-Density-Independent SPH)
• A Hamiltonian Splitting for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
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• GPU acceleration of N-body simulation using Hermite integrals
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Collaborators

• Prof. Andreas Burkert (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik)
• Prof. Gerhard Hensler (University of Vienna)
• Dr. Michael Rich (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Prof. Masashi Chiba(Tohoku University)