Hee Oh ( ko, 오희, born 1969) is a South Korean

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

who works in

dynamical systems In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a p ...

. She has made contributions to dynamics and its connections to

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777� ...

. She is a student of homogeneous dynamics and has worked extensively on counting and

equidistribution In mathematics, a sequence (''s''1, ''s''2, ''s''3, ...) of real numbers is said to be equidistributed, or uniformly distributed, if the proportion of terms falling in a subinterval is proportional to the length of that subinterval. Such sequences ...

for Apollonian circle packings, Sierpinski carpets and Schottky dances. She is currently the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

Career

She graduated with a bachelor's degree from

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...

in 1992 and obtained her Ph.D from

in 1997 under the guidance of

Gregory Margulis Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis (russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Маргу́лис, first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Gregori; born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on ...

. She held several faculty positions, including ones at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, California Institute of Technology and

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, before joining the Department of Mathematics at

as the first female tenured professor in Mathematics there. She will serve as Vice President of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

, February 1, 2021 – January 31, 2024.

Honours

Hee Oh was an

invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame." ...

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in 2010, and gave a joint invited address at the 2012 AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting. In 2012 she became an inaugural fellow of the

. Since 2010, she has served on the scientific advisory board of the

American Institute of Mathematics The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) is one of eight mathematical institutes in the United States, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It was founded in 1994 by John Fry, co-founder of Fry's Electronics, and originally located ...

. She is the 2015 recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics. She was named MSRI Simons Professor for 2014-2015.

Selected publications

*with Laurent Clozel, Emmanuel Ullmo: Hecke operators and equidistribution of Hecke points, Inventiones mathematicae, vol. 144, 2001, pp. 327–351 *Uniform pointwise bounds for matrix coefficients of unitary representations and applications to Kazhdan constants, Duke Mathematical Journal, vol. 113, 2002, pp. 133–192 *with

Alex Eskin Alex Eskin (born May 19, 1965Alex Eskin, Curriculum Vitae
Department of Mathematics,

Shahar Mozes Shahar Mozes (שחר מוזס) is an Israeli mathematician. Mozes received in 1991, his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with thesis ''Actions of Cartan subgroups'' under the supervision of Hillel Fürstenberg. (doctoral disserta ...

: On uniform exponential growth for linear groups, Inventiones mathematicae, vol. 160, 2005, pp. 1–30 * Proceedings of International Congress of Mathematicians (2010): ''Dynamics on geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with applications to Apollonian circle packings and beyond'' *with Alex Kontorovich: Apollonian circle packings and closed horospheres on hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 24, 2011, pp. 603–648 *with Nimish Shah: The asymptotic distribution of circles in the orbits of Kleinian groups, Inventiones mathematicae, vol. 187, 2012, pp. 1–35 *with Nimish Shah: Equidistribution and counting for orbits of geometrically finite hyperbolic groups, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 26, 2013, pp. 511–562 *with Amir Mohammadi: Ergodicity of unipotent flows and Kleinian groups, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 28, 2015, pp. 531–577 *with Dale Winter: Uniform exponential mixing and resonance free regions for convex cocompact congruence subgroups of SL_2(Z), Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 29, 2016, pp. 1069–1115 *with Curt McMullen, Amir Mohammadi: Geodesic planes in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Inventiones mathematicae, vol. 209, 2017, pp. 425-461 *with Dale Winter: Prime number theorems and holonomies for hyperbolic rational maps, Inventiones mathematicae, vol. 208, 2017, pp. 401-440

References

External links

Homepage at Yale UniversityVideo lecture at Cornell UniversityArticle in the American Scientist by Dana Mackenzie

Interview with Yale News
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oh, Hee 1969 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians American women mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Place of birth missing (living people) South Korean emigrants to the United States 20th-century South Korean mathematicians South Korean women mathematicians Yale University alumni Yale University faculty 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Science Seoul National University alumni