Curriculum Vitae
SEUNG-JOO LEE
http://www.phys.vt.edu/~seungsm/home.html
Dept of Physics (MC 0435), Virginia Tech, 850 West Campus Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, U.S.A.
Personal Data
Birth
September 23, 1985; Daejeon, Korea
Nationality
Republic of Korea
Gender
Male
Marital Status Single
Contact seungsm@vt.edu (+1-540-231-5933)
Academic Positions and Education
2014.09. –
Research Scientist, Virginia Tech, U.S.A.
2010.12. – 2014.08. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, KIAS, Korea
2006.10. – 2010.11. PhD in Physics, University of Oxford, U.K.
Thesis: “Heterotic Calabi-Yau Compactifications with Monads”
Advisor: Prof. Andre Lukas
2003.03. – 2006.02. BSc in Physics and Mathematics, KAIST, Korea, Valedictorian
2001.03. – 2003.02.
Daejeon Science High School, Korea, Ranked 1st in Graduating Class
Major Awards and Distinctions
• Scholarship
2006.10. – 2009.09. Clarendon Scholarship (Oxford University Press)
2006.10. – 2009.09. Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme (U.K. Government)
2003.03. – 2006.02. Presidential Science Scholarship (Korean Government)
• Achievement
2006.02. KAIST Valedictorian and Commencement Speaker
2004.10. Second prize, The 23rd Korean Undergraduate Maths Competition
2002.07. Silver medal, The 33rd International Physics Olympiad, Indonesia
• Experience
2009.10. – 2010.06. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Theoretical Physics (Master), Oxford
2007.10. – 2009.06. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Special/General Relativity, Oxford
2006.07. – 2006.09. Summer Student Programme at CERN, Genève
2006.01. – 2006.03. Intern Student in Material Research Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara
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Professional Activities
• Organizing Committee for conferences in string theory: Strings, Quivers and Cluster Algebras
in Mathematical Physics at KIAS, Seoul (2014); String Phenomenology at Virginia Tech, USA
(2017).
• Referee for Journal of High Energy Physics; Advances in High Energy Physics.
Research Interest
String Phenomenology; String Theory Compactifications; Supersymmetric Gauge Theories.
Conference Talks and Seminars
2016.05. London, UK
Quivers and Bipartite Graphs:
“Witten Index of Compact Dynamics”
2016.05. Heidelberg, Germany
Mathematical Physics Seminar:
“Witten Index of Compact and Noncompact Dynamics”
2015.12. Incheon, Korea
Workshop on Current Topics in String Theory:
“Generalized CICYs and their applications”
2015.11. Xian, China
Workshop on String/M theory and related topics:
“Generalized CICY Three-folds”
2015.08. IBS, Daejeon, Korea
“Hypercharge Flux in Heterotic Compactifications”
2015.08. Konjiam, Korea
Seminar at the Summer School on Algebraic Geometry & Physics:
“Generalised CICYs”
2015.07. KIAS, Seoul
Six-hour Graduate Lectures at the Summer Institute 2015:
“String Theory Compactification”
2015.06. U. of Oxford
String Seminar Series:
“BPS-State Counting: Quiver Invariant, Abelianisation and Mutation”
2015.06. IFT, Madrid
String Phenomenology 2015, contributed talk:
“Generalised CICY three-folds”
2015.04. Virginia Tech, U.S.A.
Algebra Seminar in Maths Department:
“Quiver Moduli Spaces and Quiver Invariants”
2015.04. Duke U., U.S.A.
Southeastern Regional Mathematical String Theory Meeting:
“BPS-State Counting: Quiver Invariant, Abelianisation and Mutation”
2015.01. Ewha W. U., Seoul
“Hypercharge Flux in Heterotic Compactifications”
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2014.12. KIAS, Seoul
“Hypercharge Flux in Heterotic Compactifications”
2014.09. Virginia Tech, U.S.A. “The Standard Model as a String Geometry”
2014.05. IEU, Seoul
String Phenomenology Mini-Workshop:
“Towards Heterotic Line-Bundle Standard Models”
2014.04. Daejeon, Korea
Korean Physics Society Meeting, contributed talk:
“Towards Heterotic Line-Bundle Standard Models”
2013.12. IPMU, Kashiwa
“An Algorithmic Approach to Heterotic String Phenomenology”
2013.11. Taipei
PASCOS 2013, contributed talk:
“Wall-Crossing and Quiver Invariants”
2013.10. Sogang U., Seoul
“Heterotic Model Building: 16 Special Manifolds”
2013.07. YITP, Kyoto
String Theory, Black Holes and Holography, poster:
“Wall-Crossing and Quiver Invariants”
2013.06. KIAS, Seoul
Pre-Strings:
“Wall-Crossing and Quiver Invariants”
2013.05. Kyunghee U., Seoul
“Quiver Structure of Heterotic Moduli”
2012.09. Bethe Center, Bonn
Bethe Forum on Unification and String Theory:
“Quiver Structure of Heterotic Moduli”
2012.09. KIAS, Seoul
Autumn Symposium on String/M Theory:
“Quiver Structure of Heterotic Moduli”
2012.06. U. of Cambridge
String Phenomenology, parallel session:
“Heterotic Bundles on Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds”
2011.11. SKKU, Seoul
“Heterotic Bundles on Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds”
2011.09. Busan, Korea
StringVac 2011 Conference:
“Heterotic Bundles on Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds”
2011.04. CNU, Korea
Mini-workshop on Algebraic Geometry:
“An Algorithmic Approach to String Phenomenology”
2011.03. KIAS, Seoul
Geometry Seminar in Maths Department:
“An Algorithmic Approach to String Phenomenology”
2010.07. Paris
String Phenomenology, parallel session:
“Heterotic CY Compactifications with Toric Geometry”
2009.11. U. of Oxford
String Bag Lunch Seminar:
“Toric Geometry and Heterotic Model Building”
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2008.04. U. of Oxford
Graduate Seminar in Theoretical Physics:
“Heterotic String Phenomenology”
2007.08. U. of York
BUSSTEPP Student Seminar
Other Activities
2012.07. Lindau, Germany
The 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2011.05. Kyunghee High, Seoul
An Introductory Talk for High School Students:
“String Theory and Compactifications”
2005.01. UNESCO, Paris
Launch Conference of the International Year of Physics
Miscellany
Languages
English, Korean
Computer Skills Mathematica, C, Java, Html
Publications
[1] Y. H. He, S. J. Lee and A. Lukas, “Heterotic Models from Vector Bundles on Toric Calabi-Yau
Manifolds,” Journal of High Energy Physics 1005, 071 (2010) [arXiv:0911.0865 [hep-th]].
[2] S. J. Lee, “Combinatorics in N = 1 Heterotic Vacua,” Advances in High Energy Physics 2011,
397895 (2011) [arXiv:1105.3462 [hep-th]].
[3] Y. H. He, M. Kreuzer, S. J. Lee and A. Lukas, “Heterotic Bundles on Calabi-Yau Manifolds
with Small Picard Number,” Journal of High Energy Physics 1112, 039 (2011) [arXiv:1108.1031
[hep-th]].
[4] S. J. Lee, Z. L. Wang and P. Yi, “Quiver Invariants from Intrinsic Higgs States,” Journal of High
Energy Physics 1207, 169 (2012) [arXiv:1205.6511 [hep-th]].
[5] S. J. Lee, Z. L. Wang and P. Yi, “BPS States, Refined Indices, and Quiver Invariants,” Journal
of High Energy Physics 1210, 094 (2012) [arXiv:1207.0821 [hep-th]].
[6] Y. H. He and S. J. Lee, “Quiver Structure of Heterotic Moduli,” Journal of High Energy Physics
1211, 119 (2012) [arXiv:1208.3004 [hep-th]].
[7] Y. H. He, S. J. Lee, A. Lukas and C. Sun, “Heterotic Model Building: 16 Special Manifolds,”
Journal of High Energy Physics 1406, 077 (2014) [arXiv:1309.0223 [hep-th]].
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[8] S. J. Lee, Z. L. Wang and P. Yi, “Abelianization of BPS Quivers and the Refined Higgs Index,”
Journal of High Energy Physics 1402, 047 (2014) [arXiv:1310.1265 [hep-th]].
[9] L. B. Anderson, A. Constantin, S. J. Lee and A. Lukas, “Hypercharge Flux in Heterotic Compactifications,” Physical Review D 91, no. 4, 046008 (2015) [arXiv:1411.0034 [hep-th]].
[10] H. Kim, S. J. Lee and P. Yi, “Mutation, Witten Index, and Quiver Invariant,” Journal of High
Energy Physics 1507, 093 (2015) [arXiv:1504.00068 [hep-th]].
[11] L. B. Anderson, F. Apruzzi, X. Gao, J. Gray and S. J. Lee, “A new construction of Calabi-Yau
manifolds: Generalized CICYs,” Nuclear Physics B 906, 441 (2016) [arXiv:1507.03235 [hep-th]].
[12] L. B. Anderson, F. Apruzzi, X. Gao, J. Gray and S. J. Lee, “Instanton superpotentials, Calabi-Yau
geometry, and fibrations,” Physical Review D 93, no. 8, 086001 (2016) [arXiv:1511.05188 [hep-th]].
[13] S. J. Lee and P. Yi, “Witten Index for Noncompact Dynamics,” accepted by Journal of High
Energy Physics [arXiv:1602.03530 [hep-th]].
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