Jun Kitagawa

Jun Kitagawa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University (MSU). His research focuses on fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs, particularly Monge-Ampère equations, with applications in optimal transport, geometric optics, and fluid dynamics. Key interests include regularity properties of solutions and numerical methods for these equations. He has held a sabbatical during the 2022 semesters.

Research Interests: Optimal Transportation, Partial Differential Equations, Differential Geometry, Numerical Methods.

Publications: His work spans theoretical advancements and numerical algorithms in optimal transport, including studies on stability, geometric optics, and semi-discrete transport. Recent trends include exploring transport on manifolds, perturbative approaches, and algorithmic innovations like Newton methods for transport problems.

Awards: None explicitly listed.

Advising & Grants: Advised graduate students (e.g., Minh Nguyen) and postdocs (e.g., Farhan Abedin). Former students include Chamila Malagoda Gamage (U Florida) and Mohit Bansil (UCLA Ph.D., D.E. Shaw Analyst).

Labs/Teams: Active research group at MSU focusing on optimal transport and PDEs.