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"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." Jules Henry Poincaré (1854-1912)

Sungwook Lee, Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Connecticut, 2002 (My Ph.D. advisor was Professor Kinetsu Abe. He was a student of Professor Katsumi Nomizu.)
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Southern Mississippi

Mailing address: Department of Mathematics, Box 5045 University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS39406-5045
Office: Southern Hall 306
Telephone: (601) 266-4299 Fax: (601) 266-5818
e-mail: sunglee(at)usm.edu

Curriculum Vitae: Last updated on

Appointments

August, 2007 - Present: Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern Mississippi
August, 2001 - July, 2007: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern Mississippi

Awards:

Aubrey K. & Ella Ginn Lucas Award, College of Science & Technology Excellence in Teaching, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2007.
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, College of Science and Technology, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2006.

"To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature." Richard Feynman (1918-1988), The Character of Physical Law

Research Interests: My main research areas are differential geometry and mathematical physics. My current research interests include:

differential geometry and topology of surfaces and relations to physics:

instantons, magnetic monopoles, solitons
string theory, in particular AdS/CFT correspondence

quantum mechanical and field theoretical models on noncommutative lattices

Besides, as a long term research goal and interest I am trying to understand the underlying mathematical structures in quantum field theory.

mathphys: I have a weblog about my interests in mathematics and physics.

Publications: Preprints and publications from my current and past research in mathematics and physics.

Lecture Notes: A collection of my lecture notes in mathematics and physics.

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Research Collaborators: My current and past research collaborators.

Talks

Some Useful Internet Resources

Teaching Courses: My current and past teaching undergraduate/graduate courses.

Undergraduate Research: Research is a vitally important part of mathematics and physics education. I maintain a program of research problems that a bright and enthusiastic undergraduate student can tackle and which are directly relevant for current pure/applied mathematics research or mathematical/theoretical physics research. This is both a learning process and a research discovery process for the student. If you are interested, please contact me by e-mail or come by my office for more details.

Graduate Research: For those master's students who wish to write master's theses (optional), research topics in mathematics (pure and applied) and mathematical physics are available. If you are interested, please contact me by e-mail or come by my office for more details.

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