New Faculty: Professor Yeonjong Shin
As of July 1, 2022, Professor Yeonjong Shin was appointed as an Assistant Professor. Professor Shin received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 2018. He served as Assistant Professor at Brown University (2018-2022). He majored in applied and computational mathematics.
Professor Geon Ho Choe Received the 2022 Korean Mathematical Society Education Award
Professors Geon Ho Choe of the Mathematical Sciences Department, KAIST received the "2022 KMS Education Award". The Korean Mathematical Society(KMS) held its 2022 Spring Meeting on April 28-29 online. Prof. Geon Ho Choe has been a professor at the Department of Mathematics, KAIST for ov...
Recipients of the Du-Myeong Scholarship and Fellowship 2022 Announced
With the support of President Jung-Don Kim of Miwon Commercial, Co., Ltd., the Department of Mathematical Sciences has been offering a three-year scholarship to its undergraduate students each year since 2020. This year, Taehyun Kim (Entering Class of 2021) has received the Do-Myeong Scho...
New Faculty: Professor Jinhyung Park
As of March 1, 2022, Professor Jinhyung Park joined us as a new faculty member. Received a doctoral degree in 2014 from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Professor Park worked at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (researcher, 2014-2019), and the Sogang University...
Professor Sijong Kwak and Professor JungHwan Park Receive Awards from the Korean Mathematical Society
Professor Sijong Kwak(above) and Professor JungHwan Park(below) are appointed to receive the Academic Achievement Award 2021 and the Sangsan Young Mathematician Award 2021 from the Korea Mathematical Society(KMS) respectively. The KMS plans to hold its Fall Conference 2021 online on Octobe...
곽시종 교수, 박정환 교수, 2021년도 대한수학회 상 수상
우리 학과 곽시종 교수(위)가 ‘2021년도 대한수학회 학술상’을, 박정환 교수(아래)가 '2021년도 대한수학회 상산젊은수학자상'을 수상한다. 대한수학회는 2021년 10월 20일부터 22일까지 온라인으로 ‘2021년도 대한수학회 정기총회 및 가을 연구발표회’를 개최할 예정이며, 2021년 대한수학회 ‘공로상’, ‘학술상’...
Professor Moon-Jin Kang, Professor JungHwan Park, Professor Jinhyun Park Receives Research Grant from Samsung Science and Technology Foundation
Samsung Science and Technology Foundation announced its selection of 22 original and challenging research projects for funding in the second half of 2021. Among them are Professor Moon-Jin Kang’s research on the 'Uniqueness and Stability of Riemann problem for compressible Euler system', Profes...
Professor JungHwan Park Selected as POSCO Science Fellow 2022
Professor JungHwan Park Selected as POSCO Science Fellow 2022 Professor JungHwan Park has been awarded with the POSCO Science Fellowship 2022 and will receive a research grant of 100 million Korean won for up to two years. The POSCO TJ Park Foundation has offered the Fellowshi...
Best Teaching Assistant Award for Spring 2021
Professor Mikyoung Lim, the Director of Graduate Studies, hosted an award ceremony for outstanding teaching assistants (TA) in the spring semester 2021 on July 27, 2021 via Zoom. The recipients are: Calculus I: Sung-Hyuk Im, Ho-Jin Kim, Young-Hwan Chun, Gwang-Woo Kim, Chi-Won Yoon I...
New Faculty: Dr. Kyeongsik Nam
Received a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2020, Dr. Kyeongsik Nam joins the Department of Mathematical Sciences on September 1, 2021 as an assistant professor. Prior to KAIST, Dr. Nam worked as Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of Californ...
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Let \(n, i\) be integers such that \(1 \leq i \leq n\). Each subset of \( \{ 1, 2, \ldots, n \} \) with \( i\) elements has the smallest number. We define \( \phi(n,i) \) to be the sum of these smallest numbers. Compute \[ \sum_{i=1}^n \phi(n,i).\]
Let \(n, i\) be integers such that \(1 \leq i \leq n\). Each subset of \( \{ 1, 2, \ldots, n \} \) with \( i\) elements has the smallest number. We define \( \phi(n,i) \) to be the sum of these smallest numbers. Compute \[ \sum_{i=1}^n \phi(n,i).\]
