Yon-Seo Kim

L.E. Dickson Instructor

Department of Mathematics
University of Chicago
5734 South University Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637

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Education

Ph.D in Mathematics, 2006, University of California, Los Angeles
M.S. in Mathematics, 2000, Seoul National University, Korea
B.A. in Science, 1998, Seoul National University, Korea

Curriculum Vitae :   html    pdf

Teaching

Autumn 2008: Math 20500 Section 45 & 55
Winter 2008: Math 25500 Section 11 & 31
Autumn 2007: Math 20500 Section 45 & 55
Spring 2007: Math 20400 Section 45 & 57
Winter 2007: Math 16200, Math 20300

Research

1] Gromov-Witten Invariants

For my Ph.D thesis, I studied the Gromov-Witten invariants and its relation to the Cut-and-Join equation. I showed that the Witten's conjecture is equivalent to the Cut-and-Join relation on the moduli space of stable curves. Details can be found in my thesis and also in the following preprints in arXiv:

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0501018
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/math.AG/0508384

Here is the slides that I used in the Fields Institue on January 2005. Simple idea about the Witten's conjecture and the Cut-and-Join relation can be found in these slides which I used in the talk at the USC seminar. I made a C++ program to compute all linear Hodge integrals based on the algorithm in the first preprint above. Although it became quite obsolete now, here are some examples generated by this program.

Miscellaneous Links

1] Some pictures

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  Fall 2006 in Chicago

Last updated - Feb 2007