Atsushi YOSHIMOTO
Professor, Computational Mathematics Group, Department of Mathematical Analysis and Statistical Inference
Phone: +81-50-5533-8500
E-mail: yoshimoa
Personal
Homepage:		 http://www.ism.ac.jp/~yoshimoa/
Date of Birth: August, 1961
Education: Bachelor of Science, Department of Forestry, Nagoya Univ., 1984
Master of Science, Department of Forestry, Nagoya Univ., 1986
Master of Science, Department of Forest Management, Oregon State Univ., 1987
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Forest Resources, Oregon State Univ., 1990
Degree: Doctor of Phylosophy, Oregon State Univ., 1990, Title of Doctoral Thesis: Economic analysis of integrating spatial concerns into harvest scheduling.
Employment: July 1990 - December, 1991, Senior Researcher, Sumitomo Life Insurance, Co. Ltd.
February, 1992 - June, 1994, Courtesy Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, USA
April, 1992 - June, 1992, Visiting Professor, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile
July, 1994 - October, 1999, Associate Professor, Miyazaki University
May, 1995 - February, 1996, Visiting Researcher, Institute of Statistical Mathematics
November, 1998 - December, 1998, Visiting Scholar, IIASA, Austria
November, 1999 - March, 2003, Associate Professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics
November, 1999 - May, 2000, Visiting Professor, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica, Mexico
April, 2003 - April, 2008, Associate Professor, Tohoku University
May, 2008 - the present, Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Honors &
Awards: 		Encouragement Award of Japan Forestry Society, 1994, Award of Japan Society of Forest Planning, 2000
Research
Fields:		 Forest Resource Economics, Environmental Economics
Research
Themes:		 (1) Risk-hedge optimization system against natural and managerial uncertainty toward sustainable forest resource managemente. (2) Optimal landscape management toward balancing environmental preservation and economic develpement for forest and agricultural resources. (3) Optimal stochastic control system for forest resource management under uncertainty. (4) Economic analysis on carbon sequestration by sustainable forest resource utilization for prevesion of global warming.

Selected Papers
(1)Yoshimoto, A. (2001): Application of the logistic, Gompertz, and Richards growth functions to Gentan probability analysis, Journal of Forest Research, 6 , 256-272.
(2)Yoshimoto, A. and Yukutake, K. (2002): Japanese forest sector modeling through a partial equilibrium market model, Journal of Forest Research, 7 , 41-48.
(3)Yoshimoto, A. (2002): Stochastic control modeling for forest stand management under uncertain price dynamics through geometric Brownian motion, Journal of Forest Research, 7 , 81-90.
(4)Yoshimoto, A. and Shoji, I. (2002): Comparative analysis of stochastic models for financial uncertainty in forest management, Forest Science, 48 , 755-766.
(5)Yoshimoto, A. and Kato, T. (2004): Effects of estimation length on parameter estimates of geometric Brownian motion for log price dynamics, Journal of Forest Research, 9 , 239-248.
(6)Yoshimoto, A. (2005): Option approach to search for threshold rice price toward sustainable paddy field management, Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 12(2) , 181-198.
(7)Yoshimoto, A. (2006): Carbon pricing through subsidy payment for thinning activities in Japan, Scandinavian Forest Economics, 41 415-427.
(8)Yukutake, K. and Yoshimoto, A. (2006): Timber demand/supply analysis of east Asian timber trade - trade among eight Japanese regions, China, Korea -, Scandinavian Forest Economics, 41 , 429-440.
(9)Yoshimoto, A. and Marusak, R. (2007): Evaluation of carbon sequestration and thinning regimes within the optimization framework for forest stand management, European Journal of Forest Research, 126(2) , 315-329.
(10)Ninomiya, Y. and Yoshimoto, A. (2008): Statistical method for detecting structural change in growth process, Biometrics, 64, 46-53.

Selected Publications
(1) Yoshimoto, A. & Yukutake, K. (1999):Global Concerns for Forest Resource Utilization - Sustainable Use and Management, FORESTRY SCIENCES, Volume 62, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherland.

Membership of Academic Societies
The Japan Forestry Society, Japan Society of Forest Planning, Society of American Foresters, Resource Modeling Association

Professional Services
2001 - the present: President of FORMATH Research Group, 2002 - 2010: Committee for Action Plan of Japan Society of Forest Planning, 2005 - 2007: Japanese Editorial Board Member of Japan Society of Forest Planning, 2004 - 2007: Program Committee of UNU Global Seminar for Tohoku Session, 2005 - 2010: Division IV Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO (International Union of Forestry Research Organization)

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