Hee Oh

Hee Oh
Born (1969-10-27) October 27, 1969 (age 57)
Naju, South Korea
CitizenshipUnited States
Education
Known fordynamical systems
Awards
Scientific career
WorkplacesYale University
Thesis Discrete subgroups generated by lattices in opposite horospherical subgroups  (1997)
Gregory Margulis
Korean name
Hangul
오희
Hanja
吳熙
RRO Hui
MRO Hŭi
Websitegauss.math.yale.edu/~ho2/

Hee Oh (Korean: 오희, born 27 October 1969) is a Korean American mathematician and the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. She has made contributions to dynamical systems, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and their connections to geometry and number theory.

Career

She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Seoul National University in 1992 and obtained her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1997 under the guidance of Gregory Margulis. She held several faculty positions, including ones at Princeton University, California Institute of Technology and Brown University, before joining the Department of Mathematics at Yale University in 2013 as the first female tenured professor in Mathematics there. She served as Vice President of the American Mathematical Society, February 1, 2021 – January 31, 2024.

Work

She has worked extensively on counting and equidistribution for Apollonian circle packings, Sierpinski carpets and Schottky dances. Her recent work continues to be centered around the exploration and use of Lie groups. More specifically, working with representations by using discrete sub groups, like Anosov Groups. Her research explores how these sub groups are useful in measuring characteristics of dynamical systems like maximal entropy.

Honours

Hee Oh was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad 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 American Mathematical Society. She is the 2015 recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics. In 2017, she was named a Guggenheim fellow. In 2018, she received the Ho-Am Prize for Science. In 2024, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She served on the Fields Medal committee at the 2018 ICM in Rio. She is on the Abel Prize committee for 2024-2026.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "吳熙 교수, 예일大 수학과 첫 종신 女교수 돼". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 30 May 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Hee Oh designated the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics, Yale News, April 6, 2015, retrieved 2015-04-07.
  3. ↑ Hee Oh at Math Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "Korean becomes Yale's 1st female math professor", The Chosun Ilbo, retrieved 2013-10-30
  5. ↑ "2020 Election Results" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 68: 270.
  6. ↑ Oh, Hee; Shah, Nimish (2012). "The asymptotic distribution of circles in the orbits of Kleinian groups". Invent. Math. 187 (1): 1–35. arXiv:1004.2130. Bibcode:2012InMat.187....1O. doi:10.1007/s00222-011-0326-7. MR 2874933. S2CID 115163894.
  7. ↑ Kim, Dongryul M.; Oh, Hee (2025-05-23). "Relatively Anosov groups: finiteness, measure of maximal entropy, and reparameterization". arXiv:2404.09745 [math.DS].
  8. ↑ 2012 AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting
  9. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-07.
  10. ↑ "Browse Prizes and Awards". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  11. ↑ New Academy Members