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

News

  • POSTECH recruits new postdocs (open from Mar. 30. 2026). We highly encourage young researchers to apply for these positions (starting from Sep. 1st 2026).
    [Department postdoc 2026] [BK postdoc 2026]
  • We may have an opportunity to support another 2 year postdoc position (in ergodic theory, dynamical systems or related topics), starting from Sep. 1st 2026. If you are interested in this position, please send me your C.V and a short research statement before the end of May. We will contact you if it matches our opening position.

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.

Cohomological equations, higher rank actions and rigidity.


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).

    • [C.V (PDF)]

    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


    Past courses taught (POSTECH)

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