Prof. Jae-Kyung Kim receives a citation from the Minister of Science and Technology and ICT
Prof. Jae-Kyung Kim of Woori Department has been awarded the 'Ministerial Citation' by the Ministry of Science and ICT. In 2017, Prof. Kim received a research grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), an international organization known as the Nobel Prize Fund, to conduct resea...
2023 MWC Du-myeong Scholarships and Fellowships Award Ceremony
On Thursday, May 4, 2023, the Du-myeong (Two) Scholarships and Fellowships Awards Ceremony of MWC (Miwon Corporation) was held at the Education 4.0 Lecture Room of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at KAIST. Second-year student Kwon Dohyeong received a scholarship of KRW...
Scientists re-writes FDA-recommended equation to improve estimation of drug-drug interaction
Drugs absorbed into the body are metabolized and thus removed by enzymes from several organs like the liver. How fast a drug is cleared out of the system can be affected by other drugs that are taken together because added substance can increase the amount of enzyme secretion in the body. This dr...
Professor JungHwan Park and Dr. Sungkyung Kang’s work featured by Quanta
Professor Park and Dr. Kang’s recent article “The (2,1)-cable of the figure-eight knot is not smoothly slice” was featured in Quanta magazine. The work is joint with Irving Dai, Abhishek Mallick, and Matthew Stoffregen. Sungkyung Kang got a bachelor degree in 2014 and a master’s degree in 2015 fr...
Professor Jinhyung Park participated in Chosun Biz New Year’s Young Scientist Interview Series
Professor Jinhyung Park had an interviewed with Chosun Biz by the recommendation of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), and the article was published online on January 23, 2023. This is the fifth article in Chosun Biz 2023 New Year’s Young Scientist Interview Series [Young Brains...
Professor Kyeongsik Nam selected as POSCO Science Fellow 2023, and his research selected for Samsung Electronics Future Technology Projects in the second half of 2022
Professor Kyeongsik Nam has been awarded with the POSCO Science Fellowship 2023 and will receive a research grant of 100 million Korean won for up to two years. The POSCO TJ Park Foundation has offered the Fellowship since 2009 to support outstanding young scientists working at universities ...
Professor Jaeyoung Byeon Named “DI Award for Excellence in Mathematics 2022,” and Professor Yeonjong Shin Receives “Sang San Young Mathematician Award 2022” from the Korean Mathematical Society
The Korean Mathematical Society (KMS) hosted its annual meeting on October 18-21, 2022 at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Center in Seoul, Korea. It also organized an international conference to celebrate the promotion of South Korea to the highest status, Group 5, in the ranking of...
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...
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Consider a function \(f: \{1,2,\dots, n\}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) satisfying the following for all \(1\leq a,b,c \leq n-2\) with \(a+b+c\leq n\).
\[ f(a+b)+f(a+c)+f(b+c) - f(a)-f(b)-f(c)-f(a+b+c) \geq 0 \text{ and } f(1)=f(n)=0.\]
Prove or disprove this: all such functions \(f\) always have only nonnegative values on its domain.
Acknowledgement: This problem arises during a research discussion between June Huh, Jaehoon Kim and Matt Larson.
KAIST Compass Biannual Research Webzine
Consider a function \(f: \{1,2,\dots, n\}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) satisfying the following for all \(1\leq a,b,c \leq n-2\) with \(a+b+c\leq n\).
\[ f(a+b)+f(a+c)+f(b+c) - f(a)-f(b)-f(c)-f(a+b+c) \geq 0 \text{ and } f(1)=f(n)=0.\]
Prove or disprove this: all such functions \(f\) always have only nonnegative values on its domain.
Acknowledgement: This problem arises during a research discussion between June Huh, Jaehoon Kim and Matt Larson.