Takahiro Shiota

Takahiro Shiota (Japanese塩 田 隆比吕, Takahiro Shiota ) is a Japanese mathematician. He is a professor at Kyoto University.

In 1986 he published the solution to the Schottky problem by ( originally KP equation from plasma physics of Kadomtzew and Petiaschwili ) characterized the Jacobian varieties by Solitonenlösungen the Kadomtsev - Petiashvili equation. This had been previously suspected by Sergei Novikov. The work grew out of his dissertation at Harvard University in 1984. Thereafter Shiota was at Brandeis University.

Shiota also dealt further with integrable systems, partly in collaboration with Pierre van Moerbeke and Mark Adler with applications to random matrices. In addition to algebraic geometry and integrable systems, it also dealt with image recognition ( where he worked with David Mumford ) and others in medicine. Shiota was also co-editor of the collected essays of Mumford.

In 1989 he was Sloan Fellow. 1987/88 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1999 he was at MSRI.