Positions (Sang-hyun Kim)

Past positions and committees

Affiliations

• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University, March 2014 - Jan 2019.
• Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, KAIST, June 2010 - February 2014.
• Norbert Wiener Assistant Professor, Tufts University, 2010 - 2011.
• R. H. Bing Instructor, the University of Texas at Austin, 2008 - 2010.
• Postdoctoral Fellow in Geometric Group Theory, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), 2007.

Education

• Yale University, Ph.D., 2007.

Advisor : Professor Andrew Casson

Committees

• Korean Mathematical Soceity

Executive Board member (2013 - 2014)

Korean team for International Mathematical Olympiad (Observer in 2013, Deputy Leader in 2014)

Korea College Math Competition committee (2013 - )

• Seoul National University committees

Local coordinator, Simon Marais Mathematics Competition (SMMC), Seoul National University (2018)

Admissions (confidential period)

Honor code committee (2015) : Policy establishment in order to improve academic integrity at SNU.

Calculus education reform committee (2018)

BK21 committee, executive (2018)

Undergraduate committee (2018)

Graduate committee (2015 - 2017)

Applied math committee (2015) : Give graduate students more choices for their advisors, including engineering faculty.

External review committee (2015) : Conduct a department review by prominent scholars from outside.

Brain Korea 21 evaluation committee (2015)

Hiring process reform committee (2016)

Teaching

Graduate Courses

Seoul National University

• Algebraic Structure of Diffeomorphism Groups (graduaute course), Spring 2018
• Algebraic Topology 1, Fall 2016, Fall 2018
• Geometry on Infinite Groups (Graduate topics course), Fall 2014.

KAIST

• Algebraic Topology I, Spring 2013.
• Groups, Graphs and Geometry (graduate course), Spring 2012.

The University of Texas at Austin

• Topics in Geometric Group Theory (graduate course), Spring 2010.

Undergraduate Courses

Seoul National University

• Mathematics for Biology I, II, 2016.
• Calculus I, II for math majors, 2015*, 2018*. lecture note (PDF)
• Introduction to Topology I, II, 2015. lecture note (PDF)
• Calculus II, Fall 2014.
• Calculus I, Spring 2014.

* coordinator

KAIST

• Education 3.0 Calculus I, Spring 2012, Spring 2013 -- a discovery oriented course with bottom-up approach and multimedia integration.

Online-assisted, discovery-oriented calculus classes (newspaper article)

• Education 3.0 Calculus II, Fall 2012.
• Calculus II (Calculus of Several Variables), Fall 2011.
• Freshman Seminar, Fall 2011.

Tufts University

• Calculus II, Fall 2010.
• Calculus III, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011.

The University of Texas at Austin

• Differential and Integral Calculus I, Spring 2008, Fall 2008 and Fall 2009.
• Differential and Integral Calculus II, Spring 2010.
• Introduction to Number Theory, Summer 2009.
• Probability I, Summer 2008 and Spring 2009.
• Discrete Mathematics, Spring 2008.
• Topics in Geometric Group Theory (graduate course), Spring 2010.

Yale University (part-time acting instructor)

• Calculus of Functions of One Variable, 2006 and 2007.
• Introduction to Functions of Several Variables, 2006.
• Calculus of Functions of Several Variables, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Mathematical Olympiad

Teaching for Korean Mathematical Olympiad.

• Summer school : 2013, 2014, 2015.
• Winter school : 2011, 2013.
• IMO team training : 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.