Yoonsang Lee

Yoonsang Lee


Department of Mathematics
Dartmouth College
27 N Main Street
Hanover, NH 03755

Office : 206 Kemeny Hall
email : yoonsang.lee at dartmouth.edu

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. My research focuses on applied mathematics and computational issues in prediction and uncertainty quantification of complex dynamical systems. I am interested in particular in computational methods to efficiently combine numerical prediction models with data, which are scalable for big data and high-dimensional systems.

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"The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer." - Fridtjof Hansen, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 1922

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"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." - Richard Hamming

My research focuses on mathematical problems in prediction and uncertainty quantification of complex dynamical systems. In particular I am intrested in robust and efficient computational methods to combine numerical prediction models with data, which are scalable for big data and high-dimensional systems.

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Application areas of my research include but not limited to geophysical fluid systems and combustion models. You can find more details from my publications.

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Teaching

I find fun in teaching mathematics, physics and computer science, especially their interdisciplinary applications in science and engineering. Applying theories to applications is one way to learn mathematics and science but I believe that it is more efficient to generalize ideas from examples (or experiences) and then apply to other applications. Thus motivating students from real-world examples is the primary goal of my teaching, which is followed by generalization of ideas and applications to other examples. Here are some comments from my students

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PDE solvers

It is a good exercise to develop your own PDE solvers based on what you have learned in Numerical Analysis. However, for practical research computations, it is strongly recommended to use PDE solvers developed and refined by many researchers. There are many PDE solvers freely available online. Among others, I recommend the following PDE solvers - AMReX @ LBL and PETSc @ Argonne - for robust and efficient computations. Check out the following links.

Data Assimilation Codes

Data assimilation combines a numerical forecast model with observational data to improve the prediction skill. If you are interested in testing/running data assimilation, please check the following programs.

If you are interested in a MATLAB program for data assimilation, you can check the following book by Law, Stuart and Zygalakis, which contains MATLAB codes