Semin Yoo (유세민, 劉世玟)
In my office at IBS, Korea
Some fun facts about my birthday
Contact information
Email: syoo19@ibs.re.kr (current) syoo19@kias.re.kr (permanent) syoo19@ur.rochester.edu (expired)
Address: Discrete Mathematics Group, Institute for Basic Science, 55 Expo-ro Yuseong-gu Daejeon 34126 Republic of Korea
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.)
Research interests
My primary research revolves around counting problems in Finite Fields, employing both algebraic and analytic methods. Here are the areas and keywords I have been (will be) involved in so far.
Combinatorics: q-binomial coefficients, quadratic forms, orthogonal groups, (n,d,λ)-graphs, quasi-random graphs and hypergraphs, multiplicative decomposition, threshold functions, quasirandom groups
Discrete Geometry: Incidence problems
Number Theory: Diophantine tuples
Some quotes I like: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. -Ernest Hemingway
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea
Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
University of Rochester, New York, USA
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea