Conferences Organized

• Conference in Honor of Percy Deift (with Jinho Baik, Ji Oon Lee, Ken McLaughlin, and Kyeongsik Nam), May 12−16, 2025, KIAS, Seoul, Korea.

• Complex Faces in Honor of Nikolai G. Makarov (with Nicola Arcozzi,  Ilia Binder, Alexei Poltoratski, and Stanislav Smirnov), April 7−11, 2025, Venice, Italy.

• Stochastic PDEs in Seoul 2024 (with Davar Khoshnevisan, Kunwoo Kim, Carl Mueller), August 12−16, 2024, June E Huh Center for Mathematical Challenges, Seoul, Korea.

• Workshop on Combinatorics and Probability (with Sung-Soo Byun and Jaeseong Oh), June 27−28, 2024, June E Huh Center for Mathematical Challenges, Seoul, Korea.

• Random Matrices and Related Topics in Jeju (with Sung-Soo Byun and Kyeongsik Nam), May 6−10, 2024, Jeju Island, Korea. 

• Fluids in Seoul 2024 (with Joonhyun La, In-Jee Jeong, and Junha Kim), January 15−19, 2024, June E Huh Center for Mathematical Challenges, Seoul, Korea.

• Probability Winter School in Korea 2023 (with Sung-Soo Byun and Kyeongsik Nam), December 26−29, 2023, Jeongseon, Korea.

• The 4th Korea-France Conference on Mathematics (with Insong Choe, Seung Yeal Ha, Bo-Hae Im, Sanghyun Kim, Donghyun Lee, and Philippe Thieullen), August 21−25, 2023, KIAS, Korea.

• Workshop on Quantum Analysis (with Sung-Soo Byun, Jaesung Hur, and Young-Hoon Kiem), July 10−14, 2023, Sokcho, Korea.

• Random Conformal Geometry and Related Fields in Jeju (with Tom Alberts, Sung-Soo Byun, and Fredrik Viklund), June 5−9, 2023, Jeju Island, Korea.

This conference was held in Jeju Island with focus on recent developments in Schramm-Loewner evolution and its connections to Gaussian fields and conformal field theory, the continuum random trees, random surfaces produced by Liouville quantum gravity, and Jordan curves obtained from random conformal welding.

• Probability Workshop in Korea 2022 (with Sung-Soo Byun and Jaehun Lee), December 18−21, Jeongseon, Korea.

• Harmonic Analysis and PDE in Seoul (with Steve Hofmann, Seick Kim, and Svitlana Mayboroda), May 16−20, 2022, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

• Workshop on Quantum Analysis (with Sung-Soo Byun, Jaesung Hur, and Young-Hoon Kiem) August 21−26, 2021, Gangneung, Korea.

• Workshop on Quantum Analysis (with Jaesung Hur and Young-Hoon Kiem) August 17−22, 2020, Pyeongchang, Korea.

• The 15th KIAS Winter School on Differential Geometry (with Jaigyoung Choe), December 26−30, 2019, Jeongseon, Korea.

• Random Matrices and Related Topics (with Paul Jung and Ji Oon Lee), May 6−10, 2019, KIAS, Seoul, Korea.

This conference focused on recent developments in the theory of random matrices and its connections to potential theory and statistical physics. Specific topics included recent advances in determinantal Coulomb gas, the spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, the extreme gap problems, and the limit theorems for determinantal point processes.

• Random Conformal Geometry and Related Fields (with Tom Alberts and Fredrik Viklund), June 18−22, 2018, KIAS, Seoul, Korea.
  This conference focused on recent developments in Schramm-Loewner evolution, and its connections to random Gaussian fields, and classical conformal field theory from theoretical physics. Together, these subjects have been one of the most active areas in statistical mechanics in the last fifteen years. The mathematical theory behind random conformal geometry is rich and intimately intertwined with theoretical physics, combinatorics, operator theory, spectral theory, and many other disciplines where new connections are regularly emerging.

• Tokyo-Seoul Conference in Mathematics - Probability Theory (with Shigeki Aida, JongHae Keum, and Toshitake Kohno), December 8−9, 2017, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

• Geometry, Analysis and Probability in Honor of Peter W. Jones (with Christopher Bishop, Raanan Schul, and Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero), May 8−12, 2017, KIAS, Seoul, Korea.
  Over the last four decades, Peter Jones has demonstrated the power of using ideas from real and harmonic analysis to solve difficult problems in complex and functional analysis, geometric measure theory, conformal dynamics, conformal probability, and geometrically based applied mathematics. Although much of this work is highly technical, it is usually motivated by simple geometric or analytic ideas. The conference explored the areas listed above from the perspectives of both established experts and younger researchers, with an emphasis on interactions between areas and the basic themes that recur in each of them. Specific topics will include recent advances in harmonic measure, Schramm-Loewner Evolutions (SLE), Gaussian Free Fields (GFF), rectifiability, and the analysis of big data.

• Workshop on Probability Theory and its Applications (with Panki Kim), December 13−16, 2016, KIAS, Seoul, Korea.

• Summer School on Algebraic Geometry and Conformal Field Theory (with Young-Hoon Kiem), August 21−26, 2016, Korea.

• Everything is Complex in Honor of Nikolai G. Makarov (with Ilia Binder, Alexei Poltoratski, and Stanislav Smirnov), March 6−11, 2016, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

• The 11th Hokkaido University and Seoul National University Symposium on Mathematics (with Shin-Ichiro Ei), November 27, 2015, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

• Recent Progress in Random Conformal Geometry (ICM 2014 Satellite Conference) (with Pierre Nolin and Fredrik Viklund), August 11−12, 2014, COEX, Seoul, Korea.
  The last decade has seen remarkable advancement in the understanding of planar lattice models and their scaling limits. A wide range of ideas and techniques from probability, analysis, and physics, including the SLE process, discrete complex analysis, random planar maps, quantum gravity, and conformal field theory, come together in this field. The workshop brought together leading researchers in these areas to interact and to present and discuss recent advances.