Dr. Takayuki Yamada was the recipient of 2009 ISSMO/Springer Prize for Young
Scientist.

The Prize was awarded to Dr. Yamada for an excellent presentation and outstanding
paper read at ISSMO’s Eight World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary
Optimization (WCSMO-8) held in Lisbon, Portugal, 2009.

The title of the presentation is ” A new level set-based topology optimization method
using a fictitious interface energy model based on phase field method concepts”
coauthored with S. Nishiwaki, K Izui, M Yoshimura.

The Prize was handed over at ceremony during the General Assembly
Meeting at the WCSMO-9 in Shizuoka, Japan 2011. After Dr. Yamada gave a brief
presentation of his winning paper.