Curriculum Vitae of
Kang-Tae Kim
KIM (family name), Kang-Tae (given name)
Education/Service/degrees:
1974-80 B. Sc.; 1980 M. Sc. in Mathematics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1980-83 Lieutenant Junior Grade (Navy) of The Republic of Korea; Instructor of Mathematics at The Korea Naval Academy.
1983-88 University of California at Los Angeles, U.S.; Graduate study; Assistant and Research Fellow.
1988 Ph D. in Mathematics from U. C. L. A. (Advisor: Robert E. Greene)
Dissertaion title: Domains with non-compact automorphism groups.
Major Academic Positions
1980.09-1983.07 Instructor of Mathematics, Korea Naval Academy
& Lieutenant JG of Korea Navy
1983.10-1988.06 Teaching fellow in Mathematics, U. C. L. A., California, U. S. A.
1988.07-1994 .12 J.D. Tamarkin and regular assistant professor, Brown U., RI, U. S. A.
1994.12-1998.02 Associate professor, POSTECH, Korea
1998-2000, 2004-2006 Chairman, Mathematics Department of POSTECH (2 terms)
2011- 2018 Director of Center for Geometry and its Applications (SRC-GAIA)
1999.03- >>2022.02 Professor of Mathematics, POSTECH, Korea
>>>> 2022.03 >>>> Professor Emeritus, POSTECH
Service
2001-2009 Associate Editor, Journal of mathematical analysis and applications (Elsevier)
2007 Chief editor of the Journal of the Korean Mathematical society
2008- >>2022 Editor, Journal of geometric analysis (Springer)
2013->>2022 Executive editor, Complex analysis and its Synergies (Springer)
1997-2022 Chair organizer of the KSCV Conference (10 times) and
Supervisor of the KSCV Workshops (20+ times )
2001-2005 Organized conference/school (2 times) in C.I.R.M. (Luminy) of France.
Books and Lecture notes:
1. Lectures on Riemannian geometry (리만기하학, in Korean), GyoWooSa, 2015.
2. Scaling methods in several complex variables, Global analysis research center, Seoul National University, 1990
3. Calculus I, GyoWooSa, Korea, 1999. (with S.O. Kim)
4. Complex geometry in Pohang , Contemporary mathematics 222, American mathematical society, 1998. (Editor, with S.G. Krantz)
5. Complex and Riemannian geometry, Contemporary mathematics 322, American mathematical society, 2008. (Editor, with J.S. Bland and S.G. Krantz)
6. Schwarz’s lemma from a differential geometric viewpoint, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, published by the World Scientific, 2010. (with H. Lee)
7. The Geometry of complex domains, Progress in Mathematics, Birkhauser-Verlag. Volume 291, 2011 (Author, with R.E. Greene and S.G. Krantz)
8. Differentiable manifolds (미분다양체론, in Korean), 교우사.
9. Complex Analytic Geometry (복소해석기하학, in Korean), 교우사.
10. 복소함수론 I (Theory of Complex Variables, I), 2024 교우사.
Students (Ph. D.)
Andrea Pagano (Brown 1993), ENEA, Italy.
Sunhong Lee (POSTECH 2001), GyeongSang National University (Professor)
Jisoo Byun (POSTECH 2002), KyungNam University (Professor)
Kang-Hyurk Lee(POSTECH 2005), GyeongSang National University (Professor)
Jae-Cheon Joo(POSTECH 2006), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia (Associate Professor)
Byeong-Lae Min(POSTECH 2009), Seoul
Young-Jun Choi(POSTECH 2010), Pusan National University (Associate Professor)
Minju Song(POSTECH 2011), Seoul
Aeryeong Seo (POSTECH 2012), Kyungpook National University (Associate Professor)
Seungro Joo (POSTECH 2017), Samsung Co.
Sungmin Yoo (POSTECH 2017), InCheon National University (Assistant professor)
Jihun Yum (POSTECH 2019). Jeonbuk National University. (Assistant professor)
Sejun Kim (POSTECH 2019). Samsung Co.
SeungJae Lee (POSTECH 2020), Kyungpook National University. (Research Associate)
Yewon Luke Cho (POSTECH 2021), GyeongSang National University (Research Assistant Professor)
Honors and awards
1997 Prominent research work, Federation of Science and Technology organizations of Korea.
2000 Research achievement award, Korean Mathematical Society
2001-2004 K.W. Kwun Chair Professor (the 1st) of Mathematics at POSTECH
2021 D.I. Mathematician Award, Korean Mathematical Society
Visiting Positions
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. (Fall 1992-93)
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. (Spring 1992-93, Full year 2001)
Université de Provence, Marseille, France (One month each in 2001, and in 2008)
College de France and l’Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (2 months in 2008)
Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France (2012)
University of California, Los Angeles, U. S. A. (Fall Quarter 2015)
Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany (2024)
Invited lectures and Presentations
Seminars and colloquia (over 100 times at places including Grenoble, Luminy, Marseille, Harvard, Brown, Massachusetts, Penn State, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Marseille, Grenoble-Alpes, Tuebingen, MPI-Bonn, Wuppertal, Ecole-Polytechnique (Arthur Besse diff. geom. Seminar), Firenze, Ancona, Trento (at conferences), Beijing (Peking Univ), Capital Normal Univ. and Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing), Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. and Tongji U. (Shanghai), Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kyushu, Tohoku, Hiroshima (Japan). CIRM of France. MathematischeForschungsOberwolfach of Germany, Bergische Universtaet Wuppertal (Germany)
Invited lecture series abroad
3 weeks in Scuola matematica interuniversitaria at Cortona, Italy.
2 weeks in Kyushu University, Japan.
2 weeks in Indian Inst. of Science at Bangalore, India.
Public lectures (on Aesthetics of Mathematics and Change of Viewpoint) at Korean National University of Arts and at other places (in Korean language; a video recording available by KAIST MathNet).
Houston Kirk Colloquium Lecture at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, U. S. A. (2017.11.09)
Cassyni-Springer Lecture: On Riemann's mapping theorem from Riemann's viewpoint, 2022.
Mathematics courses taught:
Calculus, Linear algebra, Abstract algebra, Real Analysis, Measure theory, Complex Analysis, General topology, Algebraic topology, classical differential geometry, Differentiable manifolds, Introductory Lie groups, Riemannian geometry, Several complex variables, Ordinary differential equations and dynamical systems, the Kodaira Theorems on Vanishing and Embedding, and other courses.