On October 22, Professor Soonsik Kwon of KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences received the “Sangsan Young Mathematicians Award.” The award was presented at the Postech Department of Mathematics.

This is the third time the annually presented award was given and the award itself was made in order to encourage and acknowledge young individuals working in the field of Mathematics. The criteria for deciding the winner of this award is general excellence, while being under the age of 35 and having attained one’s Ph.D. no more than three years prior.

Professor Kwon’s research was about nonlinear dispersive equations which focused on approaching Partial Differential Equations with mathematical analysis. Regarding this area, he succeeded in proving the existence of solutions for the fifth-order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and the lack of uniform continuity of the solution map.

His other current works include researching about the existence of low regularity solutions for the fifth-order modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation and the long-term existence of low regularity solutions for the Hartree equation. As KdV-type equations include KdV, mKdV, generalized Korteweg-de Vries (gKdV) and linearized KdV equations, Professor Kwon’s research area is diverse and both his completed and ongoing research are portions of the many possibilities ahead.

Due to his contributions and his current works, Professor Kwon was acknowledged as a very promising mathematician, especially in the field of Mathematical Analysis.