Jun-Muk Hwang

Jun-Muk Hwang (황준묵; born 27 October 1963) is a South Korean mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry and complex differential geometry.[1]

Jun-Muk Hwang
Born1963
Seoul, South Korea
Alma materHarvard University, Seoul National University
AwardsHo-Am Prize in Science (2009), Korea Science Award (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebraic geometry, complex differential geometry, complex analysis
InstitutionsInstitute for Basic Science, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul National University, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, University of Notre Dame
ThesisGlobal Nondeformability of the Complex Hyperquadric (1993)
Doctoral advisorYum-Tong Siu
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHwang Jun-muk
McCune–ReischauerHwang Chun-muk

Personal life

Hwang is the eldest son of gayageum musician Hwang Byungki and novelist Han Malsook.[2]

Education and career

Hwang studied physics at Seoul National University for his bachelors before studying physics at Harvard University. In 1993, he completed his PhD under the direction of Yum-Tong Siu with thesis Global nondeformability of the complex hyper quadric.[3][4] In the following years he held positions at the University of Notre Dame, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and Seoul National University. Since 1999, he was a professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.[1] He was in 2006 an invited speaker with talk Rigidity of rational homogeneous spaces at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Madrid[5] and in 2014 a plenary speaker with talk Mori geometry meets Cartan geometry: Varieties of minimal rational tangents at the ICM in Seoul.[6]

With his collaborator Ngaiming Mok, he has developed the theory of varieties of minimal rational tangents, which combines methods of algebraic geometry and differential geometry in the study of rational curves on algebraic varieties. He has applied this theory to settle a number of problems on algebraic varieties covered by rational curves.[1]

In 2020, he was the founding director of the Center for Complex Geometry at the Institute for Basic Science.[7]

Awards and honors

Selected publications
  • Nondeformability of the complex hyperquadric. Invent. Math. 120 (1995), no. 2, 317–338.
  • with Ngaiming Mok: Unirulated projective manifolds with irreducible reductive G-structures. J. Reine Angew. Math. 490 (1997), 55-64.
  • with Ngaiming Mok: Rigidity of irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces of the compact type under Kähler deformation. Invent. Math. 131 (1998), no. 2, 393–418.
  • with Ngaiming Mok: Holomorphic maps from rationally homogeneous spaces of Picard number 1 onto projective manifolds. Invent. Math. 136 (1999), no. 1, 209–231.
  • with Ngaiming Mok: Finite morphisms on Fano manifolds of Picard number 1 which have rational curves with trivial normal bundles. J. Algebraic Geom. 12 (2003), no. 4, 627–651.
  • with Ngaiming Mok: Birationality of the tangent map for minimal rational curves. Asian J. Math. 8 (2004), no. 1, 51–63.
  • with Ngaiming Mok: Prolongations of infinitesimal linear automorphisms of projective varieties and rigidity of rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number 1 under Kähler deformation. Invent. Math. 160 (2005), no. 3, 591–645.
  • Base manifolds for fibrations of projective irreducible symplectic manifolds. Invent. Math. 174 (2008), no. 3, 625-644.
  • with Baohua Fu: Classification of non-degenerate projective varieties with non-zero extension and application to target rigidity. Invent. Math. 189 (2012), no. 2, 457–513.
  • with Richard M. Weiss: 'Webs of Lagrangian tori in projective symplectic manifolds', Invent. Math. 192 (2013), no. 1, 83–109.

References
  1. "Hwang, Jun-Muk / School of Mathematics". Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
  2. 임아영 [Im A-yeong] (15 November 2014). "[우리시대의멘토]국악인 황병기". Kyunghyang Shinmun. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  3. Jun-Muk Hwang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Global nondeformability of the complex hyperquadric". ACM Digital Library. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  5. "Rigidity of rational homogeneous spaces" (PDF). International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, 2006. Vol. II. Zurich: Eur. Math. Soc. 2006. pp. 613–626.
  6. Hwang, Jun-Muk (2015). "Mori geometry meets Cartan geometry: Varieties of minimal rational tangents". arXiv:1501.04720 [math.AG].
  7. "IBS launches the IBS Center for Complex Geometry". Institute for Basic Science. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  8. "Hwang, Jun-Muk / School of Mathematics". Korea Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
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