Yong-Geun Oh | |
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Born | 1961 |
Alma mater | U.C. Berkeley, Seoul National University |
Awards | Korea Science Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Symplectic topology, Floer homology, Hamiltonian mechanics, and mirror symmetry |
Institutions | Pohang University of Science and Technology, Institute for Basic Science |
Thesis | Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations with Potentials: Evolution, Existence, and Stability of Semi-Classical Bound States (1988) |
Doctoral advisors | Alan Weinstein |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 오용근 |
Hanja | 吳龍根 |
Revised Romanization | O Yonggeun |
McCune–Reischauer | O Yonggŭn |
Website | Center for Geometry and Physics |
Yong-Geun Oh (Korean: 오용근) is a mathematician and distinguished professor at the Pohang University of Science and Technology and founding director of the IBS Center for Geometry and Physics located on that campus. His fields of study have been on symplectic topology, Floer homology,[1][2] Hamiltonian mechanics, and mirror symmetry[3] He was in the inaugural class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society and has been a member of Institute for Advanced Study, Korean Mathematical Society, and National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Gokova Geometry and Topology and Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University.