Schedule

July 25/26, 2020 (9 AM to 1 PM) UTC+9

Presentation order at the Open Research Forum Webinar may be subject to change.
The webinar session will open at 8:50AM KST for pre-registered audience members ONLY.

The Lecturers

Although the Open Research Forum is open to all, presenters must be invited and approved in advance in order to ensure authenticity and preparedness.

Due to the special circumstances this year, lectures will be reserved for a undergraduate or graduate students, all of whom have previously served the Forum as staff or teaching assistants. The full list of lecturers is below and is currently NO LONGER subject to change.

In order to be eligible for consideration, current and future lecturers must also submit a formal application through this form. They must also sign and abide by our Honor Code; failure to do so may and will result in removal from the Forum at any time.

Lecture Note July 25

Yun Su HAN says
“I will introduce some basic concepts of computer vision, such as motion detection and creating contours, and create some simple demo programs of the concepts using OpenCV and Python.”  Link 1 / Link 2

Min Jae KIM says
“I will be explaining different types categorical propositions and their relation to one another through the square of opposition. Then, I will describe the structure of Aristotelian syllogisms and how they can be visualized using Venn diagrams. (I will focusing most on first figure syllogism.)”

Junghwan (John) LEE says
“Everyone talks about how AIs (Artificial Intelligence) will shape our future. But how many people actually know how AIs actually work? By introducing the concept of AlphaBeta Pruning and Heuristics, I will create and simulate a basic AI for a simple board game.”

Gheehyun NAHM says
“I will give some examples of mathematical statements and proofs that I find interesting — I find a mathematical statement or proof interesting if it teaches me a new intuition and/or corrects an intuition I had. Such mathematics usually fall into one of two categories: it looks easy but it’s not as easy as you thought or might even be false, or it looks hard, impossible, or even false, but it might be true and might even have a surprisingly short proof!” The problems I introduce in my introduction video might (or might not) help.

Lecture Note July 26

Hyunji KIM says

Ran WANG says
The lecture is based on a problem on building railroads to connect cities: Given a list of cities with pairwise distances known. Design a system of train tracks such that (1) any two cities are connected to each other and (2) the total distance reaches the minimum. The mathematical formation of the problem is to find the minimum spanning tree of a (complete) graph. General concepts of trees and graphs would be introduced in the lecture. Two algorithms (Prim’s Algorithm and Kruskal’s Algorithm) would be introduced in the lecture. If time is to be sufficient, I would cover proof of correctness of at least one algorithm. The lecture would end with a note of real-life application in laying of communications cable. The problem itself is of graph theory, while the algorithms used to solve the problem are “Greedy Methods” in computer programming (codes would not be covered in the lecture).  The video explains the concepts in a clear way.

SooHyuk CHO says
Since LIGO’s success in detecting gravitational waves in 2016, Gravitation-wave Astronomy has become one of the hottest fields in astronomical community. I will talk about the fundamental nature of GW, and the history of GW research and detection technology development. I will also talk about why the discovery of gravitational waves, along with the discovery of Higgs boson, is considered to be the greatest achievement in physics in the 21st century to date.
Mainly what I’m going to talk about is the history of research, so I expect the audiences don’t really need advanced physics background. However, there may be some physical descriptions related to quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity in explaining the physics of gravitational waves.

Jae hee LEE says
I will introduce the idea of symmetries (groups) and briefly sketch how the understanding of groups led to important milestones in mathematics and physics, showing applications in algebra (insolvability of the quintic) and particle physics (gauge theory).

Join as Audience

Please fill out the form below to register as an audience member for the 2020 Open Research Forum Webinar. Once the form has been filled out, an email will be sent to you containing the Webinar link and additional information about the event.

The form will be closed on July 22, 11:59 PM UCT+9. There is also a maximum audience limit of 90 members. Spots are allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis, so please be aware that the form may close before the final deadline.

Resource

Please feel free to refer to past presentations and publications created by members of the KGSEA Math Circle. These Open School files are completely available to all and may be used for non-commercial purposes; we hope that they will be helpful to you in your own academic explorations.