Jun-Muk Hwang

Personal life

Education and career

Awards and honors

• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, since 2012
• Ho-Am Prize in Science, 2009
• Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, since 2007
• Best Scientist / Engineer of Korea, 2006
• Scientist of the Year Award, 2006
• Korea Science Award, 2001
• Award for Excellent Articles, Korean Mathematical Society, 2000

  Selected publications

• Nondeformability of the complex hyperquadric. Invent. Math. 120, no. 2, 317–338.
• with Ngaiming Mok: Unirulated projective manifolds with irreducible reductive G-structures. J. Reine Angew. Math. 490, 55-64.
• with Ngaiming Mok: Rigidity of irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces of the compact type under Kähler deformation. Invent. Math. 131, no. 2, 393–418.
• with Ngaiming Mok: Holomorphic maps from rationally homogeneous spaces of Picard number 1 onto projective manifolds. Invent. Math. 136, no. 1, 209–231.
• with Ngaiming Mok: Finite morphisms on Fano manifolds of Picard number 1 which have rational curves with trivial normal bundles. J. Algebraic Geom. 12, no. 4, 627–651.
• with Ngaiming Mok: Birationality of the tangent map for minimal rational curves. Asian J. Math. 8, no. 1, 51–63.
• with Ngaiming Mok: Prolongations of infinitesimal linear automorphisms of projective varieties and rigidity of rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number 1 under Kähler deformation. Invent. Math. 160, no. 3, 591–645.
• Base manifolds for fibrations of projective irreducible symplectic manifolds. Invent. Math. 174, no. 3, 625-644.
• with Baohua Fu: Classification of non-degenerate projective varieties with non-zero extension and application to target rigidity. Invent. Math. 189, no. 2, 457–513.
• with Richard M. Weiss: 'Webs of Lagrangian tori in projective symplectic manifolds', Invent. Math. 192, no. 1, 83–109.