Prof. Weongjong Lee

Name and Title

Weonjong Lee (이원종)
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Seoul National University

Contact

E-mail: email address icon for wlee
Office phone: 02-880-5795

Motto

  • I would like to serve as a doulos of Jesus Christ.

    • Education

    • February 1987, B.S. in Electronics Engineering at Seoul National University
    • October 19, 1994 M.A. and M.Ph. at Columbia University
    • October 18,1995 Ph.D. at Columbia University
    • Thesis Advisor : Professor Norman H. Christ, Columbia University

    Career

    • Sep. 1989 - Jun. 1991
      Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Applied Physics, Princeton University
    • Jun. 1991 - Jul. 1995
      Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Columbia University
    • Jul. 1995 - Sep. 1997
      Postdoctor, Theory Group in Physics Division, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
    • Sep. 1997 - Oct. 2000
      Postdoctor, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Oct. 2000 - Jul. 2002
      Staff Member, Theoretical Division and Computational Division,
      Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Dec. 2001 - Mar. 2006
      Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Seoul National University
    • Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2016
      Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University
    • Apr. 2016 - Present
      Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University

    Honors

    • Fellowship: Princeton University (1989-1991)
    • Fellowship: Columbia University (1991-1995)
    • Gruman Graduate Prize: Princeton University (1990)
    • Matilda Woodard Fellowship: Columbia University (1992)
    • Outstanding Young Scientist Award: AKPA, APS (1996)

    Research Interest

    • Lattice Gauge Theory(QCD)
    • Chiral Perturbation Theory
    • Standard Model Phenomenology
    • CP Violation
    • Finite Temperature QCD
    • Perturbative QCD
    • SUSY Yang-Mills Theory
    • Renormalization Groups Scaling Study
    • Computational Physics

    Recent Publications

    1. Current progress on the semileptonic form factors for B -> D(*)lν decay using the Oktay-Kronfeld action
      Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Benjamin J. Choi, Rajan Gupta, Yong-Chull Jang, Seungyeob Jwa, Sunghee Kim, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Jaehoon Leem, Jeonghwan Pak, Sungwoo Park
      PoS LATTICE 2023 (2023) 155, arXiv:2401.01561 [hep-lat].
    2. Progress report on testing robustness of the Newton method in data analysis on 2-point correlation function using a MILC HISQ ensemble
      Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Benjamin J. Choi, Rajan Gupta, Yong-Chull Jang, Seungyeob Jwa, Sunghee Kim, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Jaehoon Leem, Jeonghwan Pak, Sungwoo Park
      PoS LATTICE 2023 (2023) 245, arXiv:2401.01584 [hep-lat].
    3. 2023 Update on εK with lattice QCD inputs
      Seungyeob Jwa, Sunghee Kim, Jeehun Kim, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Jaehoon Leem, Jeonghwan Pak, Sungwoo Park
      PoS LATTICE 2023 (2023) 160, arXiv:2312.02986 [hep-lat].
    4. 2022 Update on εK with lattice QCD inputs
      Sunghee Kim, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Jaehoon Leem, Sungwoo Park
      PoS LATTICE 2022 (2022) 297, arXiv:2301.12375 [hep-lat].
    5. Improved data analysis on two-point correlation function with sequential Bayesian method
      Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Benjamin J. Choi, Rajan Gupta, Yong-Chull Jang, Seungyeob Jwa, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Jaehoon Leem, Sungwoo Park, Boram Yoon
      PoS LATTICE 2021 (2021) 136, arXiv:2204.05848 [hep-lat].

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    Invited Talks

    1. "Current Status of εK and |Vcb| in lattice QCD",
      a seminar by Weonjong Lee on November 30 (2017),
      KAIST, Daejeon
      invited by Prof. Hye-Sung Lee.
    2. "Current Status of εK with lattice QCD inputs",
      a plenary talk by Weonjong Lee on November 1 (2017),
      Korea e-Science Forum, KSC 2017, The-K Hotel, Seoul
      invited by KISTI.
    3. "Update on εK with lattice QCD inputs",
      a plenary talk by Weonjong Lee on August 29 (2017),
      2017 Santa Fe Workshop, Santa Fe, USA
      invited by Prof. Rajan Gupta.
    4. " Calculation of B ->D(*)lν semileptonic form factor",
      a plenary talk by Weonjong Lee on August 16 (2017),
      Korea Belle2 Meeting, Sachun, South Korea
      invited by Prof. Youngjoon Kwon.
    5. "Current Status of εK in lattice QCD",
      a plenary talk by Weonjong Lee on February 3 (2017),
      2017 SNU-UW Joint Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
      invited by Prof. Stephen Sharpe.

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