During his semester sabbatical leave, Associate Professor of Mathematics Leo Lee has served as visiting professor at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, teaching courses in computational and applied mathematics for both undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Lee has also given several research talks on stochastic partial differential equations at Yonsei University and Sogang University and recently published the paper “An Optimization Based Domain Decomposition Method for PDEs with Random Inputs” in the journal Computers & Mathematics with Applications. In addition, Dr. Lee has served as the symposium chair for mathematics and statistics for the US-Korea Conference 2015.