Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

YON-SEO KIM

Contact Information

    Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
    5734 South University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637
    Email address: yskim@math.uchicago.edu

Citizenship

    Permanent Resident of U.S.A.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Honors

Clay Summer Lift-off Fellowship from the Clay Institute, 2006
VIGRE fellowship from National Science Foundation, Fall quarter of 2000 - Spring quarter of 2004
Seoul National University Mathematics Department Alumni Fellowship, Fall Semester of 1994 - Winter Semester of 1999

Employment

L.E. Dickson Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Autumn quarter of 2006 - Present

Research Interests

Gromov-Witten invariants and the structure of the moduli space of curves.
Relation between the Gromov-Witten invariants and the Symplectic Homology.

Preprints and publications

"On a relationship between the Gromov-Witten invariants and the Symplectic Homology", Proceedings of UKC 2008.
"Virasoro constrains and Hurwitz numbers through asymptotic analysis", to appear at Pacific Journal of Mathematics.
"A new approach to deriving recursion relations for the Gromov-Witten theory", Nankai Tracts in Mathematics, Vol 12. 181-203.
"A simple proof of Witten conjecture through localization", Preprint: arXiv.org/math.AG/0508384
"Computing linear Hodge integrals", Comm. in Analysis and Geometry Vol.15 No.3

Presentations

"On a relationship between the Gromov-Witten invariants and the Symplectic Homology", APM in UKC 2008, San Diego, August 15, 2008
"Relative Gromov-Witten invariants and its applications", Washington Univ. at St. Louis, Algebraic Geometry Seminar, March 9, 2007
"A new proof of the Witten-Kontsevich theorem via localization", UC Davis Algebraic Geometric Seminar, December 12, 2006
"A new proof of Witten's Conjecture and future problems", Harvard Geometry Seminar, July 19, 2006
"Unified Proof of Witten's Conjecture, ELSV formula, and Virasoro Constraints", UCLA Geometry & Topology Seminar, April, 2006
"Witten's Conjecture through Cut-and-Join Equation", USC Geometry and Topology Seminar, December 5, 2005
"Localization proof of Witten's Conjecture", UCLA Geometry Seminar, November 14, 2005
"Computing Hodge integrals with one lambda class", Workshop on Topological Strings, Fields Institute, January 10, 2005
"Computing all Hodge integrals with one Hodge class", UCLA Geometry Seminar, November 2004
"On a proof of Marino-Vafa formula using Double Hurwitz Numbers", CMS Geometry Seminar, Hangzhou, China, Juy 2004
"On a proof of Marino-Vafa Conjecture", UCLA Geometry Seminar, February 2004

Teaching Experience

University of Chicago

        Basic Algebra 2 - Math 25500, Winter 2008
        Integration in Several Variables - Math 20500, Autumn 2007
        Honor Calculus - Math16200, Winter 2007
        Analysis in R^n - Math 20300 & 20400, Winter/Spring 2007

University of California, Los Angeles

        Mathematics Instructor, Spring 2006
        Mathematics Teaching Associate, Fall 2004 - Winter 2006
        Mathematics Teaching Assistant, Fall 2001 - Winter 2003

Seoul National University, Korea

Mathematics Teaching Assistant, Fall Semester 1998 - Winter Semester 1999

Conferences Attended

Holomorphic Curves: algebraic structures and geometric application, Stanford, August 18 - 29, 2008
US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, San Diego, August 14 - 17, 2008
Clay Research Conference, MIT, May 12 - 13, 2008
String Topology and the Topology of Moduli Spaces, Stanford, March 24 - 27, 2008
New Perspectives and Challenges in Symplectic Field Theory, Stanford, June 25 - 29, 2007
Symposium to Honor David Mumford on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Brown Univ., June 1-2, 2007
Ricci Flow, 3-Manifolds, and Geometry, MSRI, June 20 - July 15, 2005
Workshop on Topological Strings, Fields Institute, January 10 - 14, 2005
The 2nd Yamabe Memorial Symposium, University of Minnesota, Sept. 17 - 19, 2004
2004 International Conference in Memory of Armand Borel, July 26 - 30, CMS, Hangzhou, 2004
International Conference on Infinite Dimensional Lie Theory, July 17 - 23, CAS, Beijing, 2004
International Summer School on Mathematical Physics, Algebraic Geometry, and Analysis, June 20 - July 20, CMS, Hangzhou, 2004
The 9th Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar, UC Irvine, February 21 - 22, 2004
Symplectic Geometry and Physics, IPAM, UCLA, March 17 - June 13, 2003
Conformal Field Theory and Applications, IPAM, UCLA, Sept. 10 - Dec. 14, 2001

Miscellaneous Skills

Programming Language: C/C++, Java, Perl
Mathematical Software: Mathematica, MatLab