Minsung Kim

Assistant professor in Department of mathematics,
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
77 Cheongam-ro Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673 Korea
minsung [at] postech.ac.kr
+82-54-279-2989


Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

Research Interests

Theory of parabolic dynamical systems and its connections with geometry and representation theory.

Dynamics on nilmanifolds and their probabilistic applications.

Interactions with hyperbolic dynamics.

Rigidity in dynamical systems


About me

  • Currently, I am an assistant professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH).

  • I received Ph.D in mathematics at University of Maryland, College Park under the supervision of Giovanni Forni.

  • During the year 2021-2022, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, under the supervision of Krzysztof Frączek.

  • During the year 2022-2024, I was a junior visitor at Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, under the supervision of Stefano Marmi.

  • During the year 2024-2026, I was a post-doc researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, under the supervision of Danijela Damjanović and Liviana Palmisano (co-advised by Marco Martens).


    • Publication

    1. Anisotropic spaces and nil-automorphisms. (with Oliver Butterley)
      Nonlinearity 39 (2026), no. 3, Paper No. 035011. [DOI] [arXiv]

    2. Solving the cohomological equation for locally Hamiltonian flows, part II - global obstructions. (with Krzysztof Frączek)
      Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (3) 131 (2025), no. 4. [DOI] [arXiv]

    3. Solving the cohomological equation for locally Hamiltonian flows, part I - local obstructions. (with Krzysztof Frączek)
      Advances in Mathematics 446 (2024), 109668, 61 pp. [DOI] [arXiv]

    4. New phenomena in deviation of Birkhoff integrals for locally Hamiltonian flows. (with Krzysztof Frączek)
      Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal) vol. 2024, no. 807, 2024, pp. 81-149 [DOI] [arXiv]

    5. Effective equidistribution for generalized higher step nilflows.
      Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 42(12), pp. 3656-3715, December 2022 [DOI] [arXiv]

    6. Limit theorems for higher rank action on Heisenberg nilmanifold.
      Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A, Vol. 42, No. 9, September 2022, pp. 4347–4383 [DOI] [arXiv]


    Preprint

    1. On rapid mixing for random walks on nilmanifolds. (with Dmitry Dolgopyat and Spencer Durham)
      [arXiv]


    Teaching / Talks / Seminar


    Recent courses taught (* for graduate courses)

    1. Theory of Ordinary Diff. Equ. (MATH 412) Fall 2026, POSTECH

    A quote

    • 예술가로 살아가는 것은 수행이다. 수행은 하거나 하지 않거나 둘 중 하나일 수 밖에 없다. 그러므로 수행을 잘하지 못한다는 것은 말이 안된다. 그것은 마치 나는 수도승이 되는 것을 잘하지 못한다라고 말하는 것과 같다. 수도승이거나 수도승이 아니거나 둘 중 하나만 가능하다. 우리는 예술가의 작품을 결과물로 생각하는 경향이 있다. 예술가의 진짜 작품은 그가 세상에 존재하는 방식이다.
      창조적 행위: 존재의 방식 p.46 / 릭 루빈.

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