Minhyong Kim

Minhyong Kim is a South Korean mathematician who specialises in arithmetic geometry and anabelian geometry.

Minhyong Kim
Born1963 (age 5960)
Seoul, South Korea
Alma materSeoul National University (B.S., 1986)
Yale University (Ph.D., 1991)
Known forArithmetical Algebraic Geometry
AwardsHo-Am Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Warwick
Doctoral advisorSerge Lang, Barry Mazur
Doctoral studentsSusan H. Marshall
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationGim Minhyeong
McCune–ReischauerKim Minhyǒng

Biography

Kim received his PhD at Yale University in 1990 under the supervision of Serge Lang and Barry Mazur, going on to work in a number of universities, including M.I.T., Columbia, Arizona, Purdue, the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, UCL (University College London) and the University of Oxford. He is currently the Christopher Zeeman Professor of Algebra, Geometry, and Public Understanding of Mathematics at University of Warwick.

Research

Kim has made contributions to the application of arithmetic homotopy theory to the study of Diophantine problems, especially to finiteness theorems of the FaltingsSiegel type.

His work was featured in 2017 in the Quanta Magazine, where he described his work as being inspired by physics.[1]

Awards

In 2012, Minhyong Kim received the Ho-Am Prize for Science,[2] with the Ho-Am committee citing him as "one of the leading researchers in the area of arithmetic algebraic geometry".

Education

  • 1982 - 1985 B.S. Department of Mathematics, Seoul National University
  • 1985 - 1990 Ph.D. Department of Mathematics, Yale University

Work

Grants and awards

  • 1991 - 1993 NSF grant DMS-9106444
  • 1997 - 2001 NSF grant DMS-9701489 : 'Effective Diophantine Geometry over Function Fields'.
  • 1998 - 2002 NSF Group Infrastructure Grant : 'Southwestern Center for Arithmetic Geometry', Co-PI with six other researchers from the University of Arizona, UTexas Austin, USC, and the University of New Mexico.
  • 2003 - 2006 NSF Infrastructure grant : 'Southwestern Center for Arithmetic Geometry', Co-PI with nine other researchers from the University of Arizona, UTexas Austin, USC, UC Berkeley, and the University of New Mexico.
  • 2005 - 2008 NSF grant DMS-0500504 : 'Motivic fundamental groups, multiple polylogarithms, and Diophantine geometry'.
  • 2006 - 2008 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Core-to-Core program 'New Developments of Arithmetic Geometry, Motive, Galois Theory, and Their Practical Applications,' Foreign member
  • 2008 EPSRC grant, 46437, for workshop 'Non-commutative constructions in arithmetic and geometry'
  • 2009 EPSRC grant, EP/G024979/1, 3-year project on 'Non-commutative fundamental groups in Diophantine geometry', March
  • 2012 Ho-Am Prize in Science

Publications

References

  1. Kevin Hartnett (1 December 2017). "Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics".
  2. "Past Ho-Am Prizes". Ho-Am Foundation. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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