Curriculum Vitae Seung-Joo Lee http://www.phys.vt.edu/~seungsm/home.html Department of Physics MC 0435, 850 West Campus Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, U.S.A. Personal Data Nationality Republic of Korea Gender Male Date of Birth September 23, 1985 Place of Birth Daejeon, Republic of Korea Email seungsm@vt.edu Office Phone +1-540-231-5933 Academic Positions and Education 2014.09. present Research Scientist, Virginia Tech, U.S.A. 2010.12. 2014.08. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, KIAS, Korea [military exemption] 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 1 st 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 23 rd Korean Undergraduate Maths Competition 2002.07. Silver medal, The 33 rd International Physics Olympiad, Indonesia Experience 2009.10. 2010.06. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Master Course in Theoretical Physics, 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 Professional Activities Organizing Committee for Conferences Strings, Quivers and Cluster Algebras in Mathematical Physics at KIAS, Seoul (2014); String Phenomenology at Virginia Tech, USA (2017). Referee Journal of High Energy Physics; Advances in High Energy Physics. Page 1 of 5
Invited Seminars and Lectures Upcoming 2017.08. Chern Institute, China Nankai Symposium on Physics, Geometry and Number Theory: Bound State Counting 2016.12. IBS-CTPU, Korea Winter School on Cosmology and Particle Physics (5 hours): Supersymmetry 2016.12. IBS-CTPU, Korea Workshop on BSM Phenomenology and Cosmology: Dualities in String Models via Multiple Fibrations Past 2016.11. Northeastern, USA HET Seminar: 2016.11. Harvard, USA Mathematical Physics Seminar: 2016.10. KIAS, Seoul Conference on Strings and Geometry: 2016.05. London, UK Workshop on 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-CTPU, Korea PTC Seminar: 2015.08. Konjiam, Korea Seminar at the Summer School on Algebraic Geometry & Physics: Generalised CICYs 2015.08. NIMS, Korea SIAM Conference: 2015.07. KIAS, Seoul Graduate Lectures at the Summer Institute 2015 (6 hours): String Theory Compactification 2015.06. Oxford, UK String Seminar Series: BPS-State Counting: Quiver Invariant, Abelianisation and Mutation 2015.04. Virginia Tech, USA Algebra Seminar (in the dept. of mathematics): Quiver Moduli Spaces and Quiver Invariants 2015.04. Duke U., USA Southeastern Regional Mathematical String Theory Meeting: BPS-State Counting: Quiver Invariant, Abelianisation and Mutation 2015.01. Ewha W. U., Seoul Page 2 of 5
2014.12. KIAS, Seoul String Theory and Gravity Seminar: 2014.09. Virginia Tech, USA Center for Neutrino Physics Seminar: The Standard Model as a String Geometry 2014.05. IEU, Seoul String Phenomenology Mini-Workshop: Towards Heterotic Line-Bundle Standard Models 2013.12. IPMU, Japan An Algorithmic Approach to Heterotic String Phenomenology 2013.10. Sogang U., Seoul Heterotic Model Building: 16 Special Manifolds 2013.06. KIAS, Seoul Pre-Strings Workshop: 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 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 the dept. of mathematics): An Algorithmic Approach to String Phenomenology 2009.11. Oxford, UK String Bag Lunch Seminar: Toric Geometry and Heterotic Model Building 2008.04. Oxford, UK Graduate Seminar in Theoretical Physics: Heterotic String Phenomenology 2007.08. U. of York, UK BUSSTEPP Student Seminar Contributed Talks at Conferences 2015.06. IFT, Madrid String Phenomenology: Generalised CICY three-folds 2014.04. Daejeon, Korea Korean Physics Society Meeting: Towards Heterotic Line-Bundle Standard Models 2013.11. Taipei, Taiwan PASCOS 2013: 2013.07. YITP, Kyoto String Theory, Black Holes and Holography: 2012.06. Cambridge, UK String Phenomenology: Heterotic Bundles on Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds 2010.07. Paris, France String Phenomenology: Heterotic Calabi-Yau Compactifications with Toric Geometry Page 3 of 5
Research Papers (corresponding author indicated by ) 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]]. [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, Journal of High Energy Physics 1606, 089 (2016) [arxiv:1602.03530 [hep-th]]. [14] L. B. Anderson, X. Gao, J. Gray and S. J. Lee, Multiple Fibrations in Calabi-Yau Geometry and String Dualities, Journal of High Energy Physics 1610, 105 (2016) [arxiv:1608.07555 [hep-th]]. [15] L. B. Anderson, X. Gao, J. Gray and S. J. Lee, Tools for CICYs in F-theory, Journal of High Energy Physics 1611, 004 (2016) [arxiv:1608.07554 [hep-th]]. Preprints [16] S. J. Lee and P. Yi, Counting D-Particles on an Orientifold. [17] L. B. Anderson, C. Closset, J. Gray and S. J. Lee, Gauged Linear Sigma Models for a Generalized CICY. [18] L. B. Anderson, X. Gao, J. Gray and S. J. Lee, Nested Fibrations in CICY Three-folds: a Complete Database Page 4 of 5
Outreach and Other Activities 2014.08. KIAS, Seoul The SNU Education Program for Middle School Students: Math to Physics to Computer Science 2013.05. Kyunghee High, Seoul An Introductory Talk for High School Students: String Theory and Compactifications 2012.07. Lindau, Germany The 62 nd 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 Computer Skills English, Korean Mathematica, C, Java, Html Page 5 of 5