Hwang Jun-muk

Hwang Jun-muk

Korean spelling
Hangeul	황준묵
Revised Romanization	Hwang Jun-muk
McCune- Reischauer	Hwang Chunmuk
See also : Korean name

Hwang Jun-muk (born October 27, 1963 ) is a South Korean mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry and complex differential geometry .

biography

Hwang did his PhD in 1993 with Yum-Tong Siu at Harvard University ( Global nondeformability of the complex hyperquadric ). In the following years he held positions at the University of Notre Dame , MSRI and Seoul National University . Since 1999 he has been a professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study . In 2006 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Madrid ( Rigidity of rational homogeneous spaces ). In 2014 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Seoul .

research

Together with Ngaiming Mok he worked on varieties covered by rational curves, in particular on Fano varieties , for which they developed the theory of the variety of minimal rational tangents and used it to characterize rational homogeneous spaces and to prove deformation rigidity.

Awards

• Ho Am Prize , 2009
• Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, since 2007
• Best Scientist / Engineer of Korea (Presidential), 2006
• Scientist of the Year Award (Korean National Assembly), 2006
• Korea Science Prize (Presidential), 2001
• Award for Excellent Articles, Korean Mathematical Society, 2000
• He was selected as plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 in Seoul (Mori geometry meets Cartan geometry: Varieties of minimal rational tangents). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Works (selection)

• Nondeformability of the complex hyperquadric. Invent. Math. 120 (1995) no. 2, 317-338.
• with Ngaiming Mok : Uniruled 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 rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number 1 onto projective manifolds. Invent. Math. 136 (1999) no. 1, 209-231.
• with Ngaiming Mok: Finite morphisms onto 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 prolongation 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.

Web links

• Website at KIAS
• Rigidity of rational homogeneous spaces. (PDF; 104 kB) International Congress of Mathematicians. Vol. II, 613–626, Eur. Math. Soc., Zurich, 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hwang is the family name here, Jun-muk is the first name.