Field of interest: Statistical physics, Soft condensed matter (experiment)

Education:
B.Sci., 1996, Kyushu University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
(Advisor: N. Takaoka and T. Nakamura)
M.Eng., 1998, Kyushu University, Department of Applied Physics (Advisor: H.
Honjo)
Ph.D (Dr.Sci.), 2004, Kyushu University, Department of Applied Science for
Electronics and Materials (Advisor: H. Honjo)
Thesis title: Multiscaling analysis on rough surfaces and critical
fragmentation

Professional experience:
1998-2001, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Staff Researcher
2002-, Kyushu University, Research Associate
2005-, University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Scholar (JSPS Post-doc fellow),
(Advisor: D. J. Durian)

Current Project: Granular impact dynamics


Original papers:

Diffusion-induced spontaneous pattern formation on gelation surfaces
H. Katsuragi, Europhys. Lett., Vol. 73 (2006), 793-799.

Explosive fragmentation of a thin ceramic tube using pulsed power
H. Katsuragi, S. Ihara, and H. Honjo, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 95 (2005),
095503.

Crossover of weighted mean fragment mass scaling in two-dimensional brittle
fragmentation
H. Katsuragi, D. Sugino, and H. Honjo, Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 70 (2004),
065103(R).

Classification of KPZQ and BDP models by multiaffine analysis
H. Katsuragi and H. Honjo, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 73 (2004), 3087-3091.

Scaling of impact fragmentation near the critical point
H. Katsuragi, D. Sugino, and H. Honjo, Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 68 (2003), 046105.

Asymptotic function for multi-growth surfaces using power-law noise
H. Katsuragi and H. Honjo, Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 67 (2003), 011601.

Contraction rate of diffusion-limited aggregation
Y. Miyagawa, H. Honjo, and H. Katsuragi, J. Crystal Growth, Vol. 240 (2002),
287-291.

Evidence of multi-affinity in the Japanese stock market
H. Katsuragi, Physica A, Vol. 278 (2000), 275-281.

Multiaffinity and entropy spectrum of self-affine fractal profiles
H. Katsuragi and H. Honjo, Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 59 (1999), 254-262.

Entropy spectrum of self-affine fractal interfaces created by generators
H. Katsuragi and H. Honjo, Fractals, Vol. 6 (1998), 263-268.

On tentative interpretation of fragmentation by percolation
H. Katsuragi, S. Ohta, and H. Honjo, Forma, Vol. 13 (1998), 23-29.


Proceedings:

Dendritic side-branching with anisotropic viscous fingering
T. Honda, H. Honjo, and H. Katsuragi, J. Crystal Growth, Vol. 275 (2005),
e225-e228, (Porc. of ICCG14).

Binomial multiplicative model of critical fragmentation
H. Katsuragi, D. Sugino and H. Honjo, Thinking in Patterns -Fractals and
Related Phenomena in Nature-,, World Scientific, Singapore, 233-242, (2004),
(Proc. of Fractal2004).

Monotonic scaling of the KPZ growth with quenched disorder
H. Katsuragi and H. Honjo, Proceedings of the Int. Conf. of Comp. Methods in
Sci. nad Eng. 2003 (ICCMSE 2003), World Scientific, Singapore, 298-301,
(2003).