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Stony Brook University
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Last Modified 08/08/2007 03:10:58 PM EDT
The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics has awarded the Woo Jong Kim Dissertation Prize to Dr. Valentin Polishchuk.
Dr. Polishchuk received his Ph.D. in August 2007 for a thesis written under the supervision of Professor Joseph Mitchell on Thick Non-Crossing Paths and Minimum-Cost Flows in Polygonal Domains. He will be working as a postdoctoral research associate at the Helsinki
Institute for Information Technology. (Past Recipients include: Dr. Xiaofei Fan-Orzechowski, 2006; Dr. Srabasti Dutta & Dr. Nathan Tintle, 2005.)
The Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department is proud to honor long-time member, Professor Woo Jong Kim, who passed away on August 4, 2004 with the Woo Jong Kim Dissertation Prize. This annual prize will be awarded for the best dissertation in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Those wishing to make a gift may send a check payable to Stony Brook Foundation Acct #299770 c/o Prof. Alan Tucker, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600 or go to the SBF secure server at https://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/DoIT/giving2sb.nsf/fund.Your generosity can acknowledge Prof. Kim’s life and work and create a lasting tribute to honor him.
Professor Kim was born in North Korea, and was separated from his parents during the Korean War. He came to the U.S. for graduate school in 1958, first at Oklahoma State University and later at Carnegie-Mellon University, and earned Ph.D.’s in both Chemical
Engineering and Mathematics. He joined the faculty at Stony Brook in 1968. His research specialty was ordinary differential equations.
Professor Kim was an active member of the University community, having served on a number of departmental, college and university-wide committees. Starting in 1976, he became Graduate Program Director in the Department of Applied Math and Statistics, a position he held for all but five years. He took a great interest in the department's graduate students and was regarded as a supportive and effective mentor to hundreds of students. He was also a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, and published extensively throughout his long career.