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Kim, Inkang

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Hyperbolic Geometry, Symmetric spaces


Inkang Kim works on hyperbolic geometry and symmetric spaces. He works on rigidity and flexibility of discrete groups acting on symmetric spaces. For rigidity side, he proved the marked length rigidity of Zariski dense subgroups of semisimple Lie groups. In the line of Weil's local rigidity, with his collaborators he proved the local rigidity of real and complex hyperbolic lattices in quaternionic hyperbolic spaces. For flexibility side, with Pierre Pansu he characterized the criterion for a deformability to a Zariski dense representation of a surface group representation in semisimple Lie groups. Specially in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, with other collaborators he generalized William Thurston's double limit theorem to any hyperbolic 3-manifold with compressible boundary.



  • Feb 1990 : B.S., Seoul National University
  • May 1996 : Ph.D., U.C Berkeley
  • January 2004-June 2004 : IHES at Paris, member
  • July 2004-Feb 2005 : Ecole Polytechnique, invite
  • Oct 2004 : Universite de Grenoble I, professeur invite
  • Nov 2004, August 2010 : MPI, member
  • June 2005-Aug 2005 : MSRI, member
  • Jan 2006 : Ecole Polytechnique, maitre de rechercheur
  • Feb 2006, July-August 2008 : July-August 2009, Jan 2010 IHES, membre
  • June 2006-Aug 2006 : Universidad Complutense a Madrid, invited professor
  • June 2007 : Ecole Polytechnique, invited researcher
  • Aug- Dec, 2007 : MSRI, member.
  • Dec 2007-Feb 2008 : Ecole Polytechnique, invited researcher
  • 1997-August 2000 : Assistant professor, KAIST
  • September 2000-August 2008 : Assistant, Associate and full professor, Seoul National University
  • September 2008-present : Professor at Korea Institute for Advanced Study
  • Dec 2009, July 2010 : member, Hausdorff Institute.
  • Jan-March 2011: IHP, member

• Korea Science Award, December 2021, Presidential award.
• Monthly Scientist Award by Ministry of Science and NRF, August 2017.
• Korean Academy of Science and Technology FILA basic science Award, Nov 2016.
• Korean Presidential Young scientist Award, 2007.
• Seoul National University presidential award for Research excellence, 2002.
• Research prize for BK mathematical science department, Seoul National University, Dec 2006.
• Distinguished Alumni award for KIAS fellow, Nov 2006.
• University Fellowship, UC Berkeley 1991.
• Sunkyoung Fellowship for Doctoral study abroad, Korea Foundation for Advanced studies, 1990-96.
• Graduated with Summa Cum Laude in B.S for mathematics, Seoul National University, 1990.

Publications at KIAS

Selected Publications

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