In my office at IBS, Korea
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Semin Yoo (유세민, 劉世玟)
About me
I am a mathematician currently working in the Discrete Mathematics Group at the Institute for Basic Science (CI: Sang-il Oum ). Before joining IBS, I was a research fellow in the School of Computational Sciences at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (mentor: Jeong Han Kim). I earned my Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of Rochester, advised by Jonathan Pakianathan, and my Master's degree in 2016 from Ewha Womans University*, under the guidance of Sangjib Kim. (*: adding "s" is not a typo.) Here is my CV. (Updated on August 8, 2025)
Research interests
I am primarily interested in Combinatorics, especially interlacing with other areas such as number theory, algebra, topology, and so on. Much of my research has been done in finite fields, but I am broadly interested in various areas of combinatorics. Here are some keywords related to my research so far:
character sum, cluster algebra, Diophantine tuple, genomic Schur function, incidence problem, multiset permutation, multiplicative decomposition, (n,d,λ)-graph, orthogonal group, polynomial over finite fields, q-binomial coefficient, quadratic form, quasigroup, quasi-random (hyper)graph, threshold function, 0-Hecke algebra.
Contact information
Email: syoo19@ibs.re.kr (current) syoo19@kias.re.kr (permanent)
Address: Discrete Mathematics Group, Institute for Basic Science, 55 Expo-ro Yuseong-gu Daejeon 34126 Republic of Korea
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea
Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
University of Rochester, New York, USA
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea