About
History
Dec. 3, 1986
POSTECH founded with the Department of Mathematics
Dec. 14, 1986
First Math Competition (248 participants)
Mar. 1, 1987
Prof. Jin Ho Kwak appointed as 1st Department Head
Mar. 5, 1987
First matriculation ceremony (21 undergraduate students)
Aug. 16, 1987
Prof. Chung Nim Lee appointed as 2nd Department Head (2nd, 3rd, 4th served)
Mar. 2, 1988
First graduate students matriculation (6 MS, 1 PhD)
Feb. 7, 1990
First Commencement Ceremony of Graduate School (5 master students)
Feb. 20, 1990
First Commencement Ceremony (8 undergraduate students)
Mar. 1, 1992
Prof. Kyung Hwan Kwun appointed as 5th Department Head
Mar. 1, 1994
Prof. Chung Nim Lee appointed as 6th Department Head
Sept. 1, 1994
Prof. Kwang Ik Kim appointed as 7th Department Head
Sept. 1, 1996
Prof. Sung Pyo Hong appointed as 8th Department Head
Sept. 1, 1998
Prof. Kang Tae Kim appointed as 9th Department Head
Feb. 28, 1999
Prof. Kyung Hwan Kwun appointed as emeritus professor
Sept. 10, 1999
COM2 MAC established
Sept. 1, 2000
Prof. Yun Sung Choi appointed as 10th Department Head
Feb. 7, 2002
Best Certificate in Mathematics Evaluation by the Korean Education Council (undergraduate, Graduate School)
Feb. 28, 2002
Prof. Chung Nim Lee appointed as emeritus professor
Jul. 22, 2002
MOU with Valencia Univ., Spain
Mar. 1, 2003
Prof. Sung Pyo Hong appointed as 11th Department Head
Mar. 1, 2005
Prof. Kang Tae Kim appointed as 12th Department Head
Mar. 2, 2005
Admission to the 1st MS/PhD integrated program (2 students)
Sept. 1, 2005
First admission of international graduate student (1 Vietnamese)
Jan. 2, 2006
Moved to Mathematics Science Building
Mar. 1, 2006
Intoduced collegiate professorship for teaching
Jun. 1, 2006
Selected for Second-phase of the BK21 Project by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development
Mar. 1, 2007
Prof. Young Ju Choie appointed as 13th Department Head
Jul. 1, 2007
Pohang Mathematics Institute (PMI) established
Sept. 1, 2007
Opening of the Hillbert Space in Mathematics Science Building
Jan. 1, 2008
Fiirst Five Gold Button Math Competition
Nov. 7, 2008
MOU with the Department of Mathematics of the National University of Vietnam
Jan. 1, 2009
Prof. John Coates, Unversity of Cambridge, UK, appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor
Jan. 6, 2009
MOU with Kyushu University, Japan
Sept. 1, 2009
Prof. Hyung Ju Park appointed as 14th Department Head
Sept. 1, 2009
Prof. Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA, appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor
May.16, 2010
Prof. Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor
Jul.29, 2010
The 25th Math Competition held by the Mathematics Department (1,759 applicants)
Oct. 22, 2010
Held 2010 KMS Fall Meeting at POSTECH
Feb. 18, 2011
Prof. Jin Ho Kwak appointed as emeritus professor
Sept. 7, 2011
Center for Geometry and its Applications (GAIA) established (NRF SRC)
Sept. 8, 2011
POSTECH Math BK21 ranks 1st in the fifth nationwide NRF evaluation
Sept. 22, 2011
Ranked best department of Mathematics in JoongAng Ilbo Korean University Rankings
Mar. 9, 2012
MOU with University of Minnesota, USA
Mar. 9, 2012
Prof. Sung Pyo Hong appointed as emeritus professor
Jul. 31, 2012
Center for Geometry and Physics (CGP) established (IBS)
Nov. 19, 2012
Prof. Yong-Geun Oh awarded the 8th Kyung-Ahm Prize
Mar. 1, 2013
Prof. Hyun Kwang Kim appointed as 15th Department Head
Jun. 1, 2014
Selected for the BK21 Plus Project by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development
Feb. 7, 2015
Prof. Hyung Ju Park appointed as 16th Department Head
Apr. 1, 2015
Prof. Don B. Zagier, Max Plank Institute, Germany, appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor
Sept. 1, 2015
Prof. Sung Sub Choi appointed as Acting 16th Department Head
Jan. 25, 2016
Prof. Jong Guk Bak appointed as 17th Department Head
Jun. 15, 2016
Postech Center for Applications of Mathematics (PCAM-PMI) established
Sept. 8, 2016
Ranked best department of Mathematics in JoongAng Ilbo Korean University Rankings
Feb. 22, 2017
Prof. Kwang Ik Kim appointed as emeritus professor
Feb. 22, 2018
Opened L-Function Lab (Basic Lab Support Project, Ministry of Science and ICT)
Jan. 23, 2019
Kwon Kwan-Hwan Emeritus Professor Selected as Korea Science and Technology Merit
Mar. 01, 2019
Prof. Kwon Yong-hoon, Young-seon Shim appointed as emeritus professor
Aug. 17, 2019
Prof. Yoon Sung Choi inaugurated as 18th head professor
Sep. 01, 2019
CRT (Center for Research in Topology) established
Dec. 12, 2019
Prof. Yong-Geun Oh awarded Year 2019 Korea Science Award (President’s Prize)
Sep. 01, 2020
Selected for Fourth-phase of the BK21 Project
Oct. 01, 2020
POSTECH MINDS (Mathematical Institute for Data Science) established
Aug. 25, 2021
Prof. Hyun Kwang Kim appointed as emeritus professor
Nov. 05, 2021
Prof. YoungJu Choie awarded the 17th Kyung-Ahm Prize
Mar. 01, 2022
Prof. Kang Tae Kim appointed as emeritus professor
Apr. 04, 2022
Prof. YoungJu Choie awarded Order of Science & Technology Merit, Hyeoksin Medal
May 31, 2022
Prof. Yong-Geun Oh awarded 2022 Samsung HOAM prize
Aug. 15, 2022
Prof. Jae-Hun Jung inaugurated as 19th head professor
Sep. 01, 2022
Prof. Byung Gyun Kang, Jong-Guk Bak, Sung sub Choi appointed as emeritus professor
Sep. 01, 2022
Prof. YoungJu Choie appointed as POSTECH University Professor
Jul. 12, 2023
Center for Mathematical Machine Learning and its Applications (CM2LA) established (NRF SRC)
Mar. 01, 2024
Prof. Yun Sung Choi appointed as emeritus professor
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