Pak Tung Ho

Professor

Department of Mathematics

Sogang University

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Contact Information:

Office: R1409

Address: Department of Mathematics, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Korea

Phone: 02-705-8876

Email: paktungho"at"yahoo"dot"com"dot"hk

 

Education:

¨      Ph.D. (2010) Purdue University, Advisor: Prof. Sai Kee Yeung, Thesis: Results on geometric flow

¨      M.Phil. (2004) Chinese University of Hong Kong

¨      B.Sc. (2002) Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Employment and Professional Experience:

Ø  06/2020-present: Member, Center for Quantum SpaceTime, Sogang University

Ø  04/2019-12/2022: Associate Member, School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advance Study

Ø  09/2019- present: Professor, Department of Mathematics, Sogang University

Ø  08/2016-01/2017: Visiting Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University

Ø  09/2014-08/2019: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Sogang University

Ø  09/2010-08/2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Sogang University

 

Awards:

·         Excellent research paper award, 2018, Korean Mathematical Society  official annoucement of KMS  KMS newsletter  annoucement from Sogang University (in English)  annoucement from Sogang University (in Korean)  announcement from School of Natural Science (in Korean)

·         Faculty Members of the Year, 2018, Best Research Award, Sogang University  Link

·         Faculty Members of the Year, 2017, Best Teaching Award, Sogang University  Link

·         Faculty Members of the Year, 2016, Best Research Award, Sogang University  Link 1  Link 2

·         Faculty Members of the Year, 2014, Best Research Award, Sogang University  Link

·         Faculty Members of the Year, 2012, Best Research Award, Sogang University  Link 

·         Faculty Members of the Year, 2011, Best Teaching Award, Sogang University  Link 

·         Gerald R. MacLane Memorial Award, 2006, Outstanding Graduate Student in Mathematics, Purdue University

 

Research Interest:

Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis, Geometric Flow, Partial Differential Equation, and Graph Theory

 

Selected publications:

1. (Joint with Jinwoo Shin) Equivariant Yamabe problem with boundary. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 61 (2022), no.1, Paper No. 38.  Link

 

2. Uniqueness results on CR manifolds. Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) 22 (2021), no. 2, 853-870.  Link

 

3. (Joint with Jih-Hsin Cheng and Hung-Lin Chiu) Connected sum of CR manifolds with positive CR Yamabe constant. J. Geom. Anal. 31 (2021), 298-311.  Journal Link  Link on arXriv.org

 

4. Results related to Chern-Yamabe flow. J. Geom. Anal. 31 (2021), 187-220.  Link

 

5. (Joint with Junyeop Lee and Jinwoo Shin) The second generalized Yamabe invariant and conformal mean curvature flow on manifolds with boundary. J. Differential Equations 274 (2021), 251–305. Link

 

6. Prescribing Q-curvature on  in the presence of symmetry. Comm. Pure Appl. Anal. 19 (2020), p.715-722.  Link

 

7. (Joint with Hung-Lin Chiu) Global differential geometry of curves in three dimensional Heisenberg group and CR sphere. J. Geom. Anal. 29 (2019), p.3438–3469. Link

 

8. (Joint with Weimin Sheng and Kunbo Wang) Convergence of the CR Yamabe flow. Math. Ann. 373 (2019), p.743-830. Journal link  Link on arXriv.org

 

9. Prescribing the Q'-curvature in three dimension. Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 39 (2019), p.2285-2294.  Link

 

10. Conformal CR positive mass theorem. J. Geom. Anal. 28 (2018), p.3477-3490. Link

 

11. (Joint with Xuezhang Chen) Conformal curvature flows on compact manifold of negative Yamabe constant. Indiana U. Math. J. 67 (2018), p.537-581. Link

 

12. (Joint with Leyang Bo and Weimin Sheng) The k-Yamabe solitons and the quotient Yamabe solitons. Nonlinear Anal. 166 (2018), p.181-195. Link

 

13. Soliton to the fractional Yamabe flow. Nonlinear Anal. 139 (2016), p.211-217. Link

 

14. The Webster scalar curvature flow on CR sphere. Part II. Adv. Math. 268 (2015), p.836-905. Link  Detailed version on arXiv.org

 

15. The Webster scalar curvature flow on CR sphere. Part I. Adv. Math. 268 (2015), p.758-835. Link  Detailed version on arXiv.org

 

16. The long time existence and convergence of the CR Yamabe flow. Commun. Contemp. Math. 14 (2012), pp50. Link

 

17. Prescribed curvature flow on surfaces. Indiana U. Math. J. 60 (2011), p.1517-1542. Link

 

18. Q-curvature flow on . Comm. Anal. Geom. 18 (2010), p.791-820. Link

 

19. The structure of φ-stable minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds of nonnegative P-scalar curvature. Math. Ann. 348 (2010), p.319-332. Link

 

 

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Events:

Geometric Analysis online seminar, 2021

 

Geometry Conference in Sogang University, Korea, 2020 (CANCELLED)

 

Sharp geometric inequalities and applications to geometry and PDEs, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum, China, 2019

 

International Conference on Complex and Geometric Analysis, Xinyang, China, 2019

 

2019 CUHK Mathematics Alumni International Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2019

 

2019 KMS Spring meeting, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea, 2019

 

Sinchon Workshop on Algebraic Geometry, Sogang University, Korea, 2018

 

2018 Taipei Conference on Geometric Invariance and Partial Differential Equations, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2018

 

Workshop of Geometric Analysis, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2017

 

Pacific Rim Complex-Symplectic Geometry Conference, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics, Pohang, South Korea, 2017

 

Complex Geometry Conference--in honor of Ngaiming Mok’s 60th birthday, KIAS, Korea, 2016

 

The 11st Korean Conference in Several Complex Variables, Gyeong Ju, Korea, 2016

 

2016 KMS Spring meeting, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, 2016

 

International Conference on Geometric and Nonlinear Analysis, Xinyang, China, 2015

 

PNU Math Forum 2015, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea, 2015

 

Young Geometric Analysts Forum, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum, China, 2015

 

2014 Taipei Workshop on Analysis and Geometry in Several Complex Variables, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2014

 

Workshop on Partial Differential Equation and its Applications, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore, 2014

 

International Conference on Complex Analysis and Geometry, Wuhan University, China, 2014

 

Workshop on Complex Geometry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2012

 

6th Pacific Rim Conference on Complex Geometry, Gyeong Ju, Korea, 2011

 

 

Teaching:

 

Miscellaneous:

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Updated: 22nd January, 2022