page_title: Yong Seung Cho
section_title: Education and Career
hierarchical_section_title: Yong Seung Cho / Education and Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Professor Cho has dedicated his entire life in researching mathematics, and his specialized field is Geometric Topology (sitting in his office at Ewha Womans University, 2015.)
context_page_description: Yong Seung Cho Hangul: 조용승 is an educator and mathematician from the Republic of Korea. He completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1987 at the University of Chicago. His research interests include geometric topology, Yang-Mills Theory, Seiberg-Witten Theory, Gromov-Witten Theory, and Quantum cohomology of symplectic manifolds. His teaching career includes Chungbuk National University, Kyungpook National University, Brandeis University, and Ewha Womans University. Currently he teaches at Sungkyunkwan University as Invited Professor.
  In 2003, he was elected as President of the Korean Mathematical Society ], and at the position, he played a pivotal role in establishing the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Korea, the first national mathematical research center directly funded by Korean government. In 2005, he was selected as the first President of NIMS, and immediately began to set-up fundamental foundation of the NIMS to be innovative hub of the mathematical researches contributing to the Korea's overall scientific and industrial competitiveness.
context_section_description: Professor Cho attended Kyungpook National University for bachelor and master programs in mathematics, and earned a doctorate in 1987 from The University of Chicago under the academic direction of Melvin Rothenburg, Karen Uhlenbeck, and Shmuel Weinberger.  He became an assistant professor at Brandeis University in 1987, and moved to Ewha Womans University in Seoul as a full professor in 1989.  He taught and researched at Ewha Womans University until retirement in 2015.
  
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caption: Professor Cho has dedicated his entire life in researching mathematics, and his specialized field is Geometric Topology (sitting in his office at Ewha Womans University, 2015.)
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