Announcements

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Takayuki Hibi has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of AppliedMath (ISSN 2673-9909).

Prof. Dr. Takayuki Hibi graduated with Ph.D. from the School of Science at Nagoya University in 1987. He then visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from August 1988 to July 1989. He worked at the School of Science of Hokkaido University from September 1990 to March 1995 and visited the University of Sydney from July 1993 to November 1993. In April 1995, he became a full professor at Osaka University and has remained there ever since. His research started with the study of algebraic combinatorics on convex polytopes and then turned to Gröbner bases, algebraic statistics, and computational commutative algebra. He organized the JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) research project entitled “Harmony of Gröbner Bases and the Modern Industrial Society” from October 2008 to March 2014. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed original articles and jointly wrote the textbook “Monomial Ideals” (Graduate Texts in Mathematics 260, Springer). 

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Takayuki Hibi in taking up his role as Editor-in-Chief and look forward to his leading AppliedMath to achieve many milestones.

This serves to announce to our valued authors based in Japan that value-added tax, or consumption tax will now be imposed on article processing fees and other service fees for all papers submitted, or resubmitted (assigned new paper IDs), effective from 15 August 2021. The change is in accordance with the Japanese "Act for Partial Revision of the Income Tax Act and Other Acts" (Act No. 9 of 2015), which includes a revision of consumption taxation on cross-border supplies of services such as digital content distribution.

For additional information from the National Tax Agency please see here ("Cross-border supplies of electronic services").

Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo