Employment:

Thesis Advisor: Daniel Ruberman

Research:

I am particularly interested in the problems of "embeddings of surfaces in four manifolds", using the Seiberg-Witten Theory and geometric topology methods.

Publications:

Hee Jung Kim, "Modifying Surfaces in 4-Manifolds by Twist Spinning " (Geometry & Topology 10 (2006), 27--56)
Hee Jung Kim and Daniel Ruberman, "Topologicial Triviality of Smoothly Kontted Surfaces in 4-Manifolds "  (Transactions of American Mathematical Society 360 (2008), 5869--5881)
Hee Jung Kim and Daniel Ruberman, "Smooth Surfaces with Non-simply-conncected Complements"   (Algebraic & Topology 8 ( 2008),  2263--2287)
Hee Jung Kim and Daniel Ruberman, "Double point surgery and configurations of surfaces" (Journal of Topology 4(3) (2011), 573--590)

Seclected Talks:

GAUGE THEORY SEMINAR, Harvard University, February 11, 2005, "Modifying Surfaces in 4-Manifolds by Twist Spinning"
GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR, Waterloo University, November, 2005, "Modifying Surfaces in 4-Manifolds"
AMS SPECIAL SESSION, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN FLOER HOMOLOGY on January 8, 2007, "Topological Triviality of Smoothly Knotted Surfaces in 4-Manifolds"  
GAUGE THEORY SEMINAR, Harvard University, March 16, 2007, "Topological Triviality of Smoothly Knotted Surfaces in 4-Manifolds"
INTERACTIONS OF GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY IN LOW-DIMENSIONS, Banff International Research Station, March 29, 2007, "Topological Triviality of Smoothly Knotted Surfaces in 4-Manifolds"
3RD ANNUAL LOUISIANA-TEXAS TOPOLOGY RETREAT, Rice University, February 9, 2008, "Smooth Surfaces with Non-simply-connected Complements"
AMS SPECIAL SESSION, GAUGE THEORY ON SMOOTH AND SYMPLECTIC TOPOLOGY, March 29, 2008, "Smooth Surfaces with Non-simply-connected Complements"
TRANSFORMATION GROUPS IN TOPOLOGY AND GEOMETRY, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, July 14,        2008, "Smooth Surfaces with Non-simply-connected Complements"
TOPICS IN TOPOLOGY, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, October 5, 2009, "Knotting surfaces in 4-manifolds by twisted rim surgery"
GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR, University of Warwick, UK, February 18, 2010, "Double point surgery and configurations of surfaces in 4-manifolds"
TOPOLOGY & GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY SEMINAR, Cornell University, October 26, 2010, "Double point surgery and exotic group actions in 4-manifolds"

Teaching:

POSTECH : Topics in Topology II

SUNY-Binghamton:

• 221: Calculus I (Differential and Integral Calculus)
• 323: Calculus III (Multi-Variable and Vector Calculus)-Course Coordinator
• 330: The Art of Proof (Number Systems)

Louisiana State University:

• 1441-2 : Calculus with Application to Technology
• 2090-6: Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
• 1550-10: Calculus

McMaster University: