Chang Kee Jung

Chang Kee Jung is a physicist and professor at Stony Brook University. He was recognized as a State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor in 2015,[1][2] and received a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2014.[3]

Chang Kee Jung
Photo of Chang Kee Jung.
Born24 April
South Korea
NationalityAmerican
Alma materIndiana University, Bloomington Indiana
AwardsSUNY Distinguished Professorship, 2015; The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016 (shared, Super-Kamiokande, K2K and T2K Collaborations), 2015; Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity, State U. of New York, 2014; Outstanding Faculty (Teacher) Award, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook U., 2010
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics (high-energy particle physics)
ThesisMeasurement of The F + Meson Lifetime (May 1986)
Doctoral advisorProf. Harold O. Ogren
Websitehttp://superk.physics.sunysb.edu/~alpinist/

Early life

Chang Kee Jung was born in Daegu, South Korea, and moved to Seoul around age 10. He graduated from Seoul High School in 1973, and completed his B.S. in Physics at Seoul National University in 1979, with a brief interruption for mandatory military service from 1976–77.[4] During his undergraduate period, Jung was an avid member of the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alpine Club. In 1980, Jung moved to the U.S. to enroll in a Ph.D program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. While enrolled in the university he also studied music and music composition. Jung received his Ph.D. specializing in Experimental High Energy Physics from Indiana in 1986.[4]

Academic career

Jung became a research associate (postdoc) at the Stanford Liner Accelerator (SLAC) in 1986. He became an assistant professor at Stony Brook University in 1990, gaining full-professorship in 2000, and becoming a SUNY Distinguished Professor in 2015.[5]

Research

From 1986 to 1990, Jung completed his postdoctoral research at SLAC, Stanford University,[4] working on the HRS Experiment, PEP, and the MarkII Experiment, SLC.[6] In 1991 he joined the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment and established Stony Brook Nucleon decay and Neutrino (NN) Group.[7] The group was part of a coalition that participated in the Super-Kamiokande experiment, which led to the discovery of the neutrino oscillation phenomenon. This work was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015.[8] Jung has served on the boards and committees of several Neutrino and Nucleon Decay experiments, including his role as Co-Spokesperson for the K2K US Collaboration and the International Co-Spokesperson for the T2K Collaboration.[5] All three experiments (Super-Kamiokande, K2K and T2K) were awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016.[9]

Presently, Jung is the spokesperson for the T2K US Collaboration and the Founder & Chair of the Steering Committee for the Next generation Nucleon decay and Neutrino detectors (NNN) Workshop Series.[5] He is also working on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002. [10]

The Physics of Sports

Jung has been committed to spreading knowledge of physics to non-science majors and the public throughout his teaching career. He introduced two courses targeted at non-science majors at Stony Brook University, titled "Light, Color and Vision" and "The Physics of Sports." The latter, created in 2003, was the first of its kind to be offered in the U.S.[6] Jung's success with this course has since lead him to be sought out by sports news outlets, such as NBC 4 New York[11] and ABC News.[12] Notably, he has been cited for his scientific insight on the NFL deflate-gate scandal.[12][13]

References
  1. "Chang Kee Jung". sunysb.edu. Archived from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  2. "Jung, Chang Kee". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  3. "Chancellor's Awards". www.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2017-02-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. https://indico.fnal.gov/getFile.py/access?contribId=1&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=9389
  6. "Chang Kee Jung Home Page". superk.physics.sunysb.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  7. "Stony Brook NN Group". nngroup.physics.sunysb.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  8. "The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics - Press Release". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  9. "Breakthrough Prize". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  10. "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  11. "Beckham's One-Handed TD Catch Really the Greatest?". NBC New York. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  12. "'Deflate-Gate' Explained With Animated Stick Figures". ABC News. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  13. "Armour: Patriots' response to Ted Wells has air of desperation". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
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