Science At KAIST: SPRING 2008 Timetable Sign -Up

Sorry for the delay in getting up the timetable options - I've been busy working on a new blog called Daejeon What's On which is an offshoot of KAIST What's On.

As I have mentioned in class, what you need to do is to pick a day from the option below for the Tuesday and Thursday classes in May. There will be three positions for each class each day with Class 1 seminars running from 16:00 to 17:15 and Class 2 seminars running from 17:30 to 18:45.

Please note even if you are not giving a presentaion you will still be required to attend at least one of the seminar session each day. This hopefully will be a good opportunity to see how other people have gone about writing their abstracts and Powerpoint Presentions. It will also of course in addition be a good opportunity to see how people deliver their presentations and to practice asking pertinant, searching and/or witty questions.

I will put up more information about the genres other than the scientific report you might wish to present in the next couple of days so keep checking.

For now just indicate by email the session you are hoping to present in and I'll update the program as emails come in. If you have any questions just leave them in the comments and I'll answer them there.

Day/Class Presenters
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1st May [Thursday]
Class 1:
Class 2: 1. Lee Joonsuk
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6th May [Tuesday]
Class 1: Kim Tae-dong; 2. Chan SeongKyung
Class 2: 1. Jeon NamHo; 2. Tran Ngoc Tung; 3. Yun Hyeok
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8th May [Thursday]
Class 1: 1. Park Sunyoung; 2. Yoo Jeongsik; 3. Hwang Chulsoon
Class 2: 1. Oktay Yarimaga; 2. Park Hyun-hee; 3. Kim Bo A
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13th May [Tuesday]
Class 1: 1. Kim Bomi; 2. Vo Van Quang; 3. Pak Jiwoo; 3. Mao Wentao
Class 2: 1. Han Songhee; 2. Ha Heonjoo; 3. Park Hyun-hee
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15th May [Thursday]
Class 1: 1. Cho Heyrim; 2. Lee Jin Young; 3. Choe Jeehyun
Class 2: 1. Celal Avci; 2. Youn Jae Sang; 3. Han Seungchan
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20nd May [Tuesday]
Class 1: 1. Im SangHui; 2. Kim Yong-Min; 3. Kim Sung Wook
Class 2: 1. Kang Seungmo; 2. Sah YoungJune; 3. Eugene Park
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22nd May [Thursday]
Class 1: 1. Lee Boram; 2. Ahn Seomin; 3. Lee JungWoo
Class 2: 1. Woo Seong-woo; 2. Nikolay Tsvetkov; 3. Oh Hyojung
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Tsvetkov Nikolay * * Yun Hyeok * * Han Songhee
Lee Junsuk * * Han Seungchan
Woo Seong-woo * * Tran Ngoc Tung * * Kang Seung-Mo
Park Hyun-hee * * Sah Young-June * * Oktay Yarimaga

Oh Hyo-Jung * * Mao Wentao
Jeon Nam-Ho * * Ha Heon-Joo
Eugene Park * * ss082

Student / Author Blurb: Sun Jae Sang

Sun Jae Sang is a Robotic Research Engineer and studies robotics at KAIST [the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology]. Sun was born in Chungnam-Do, South Korea in 1979 and receivedhis Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, in 2007. He won the first prize in the ARM based-SoC Design from the Samsung Electronics Corp. in 2006 and the second place in the FIRA RoboWorld Cup Robosot (2007). He interned in the R&D center of Commtech in Seoul. He studied at the University of Nottingham as an exchange student, and got both an ILAC TESOL certificate and a Business Diploma in Canada. He is currently studying autonomous robot navigation based on SLAM and planning based on Learning Algorithm.

jssun@kaist.ac.kr

Student / Author Blurb: Celal Avci

Celal Avci graduated from MEF Schools and entered into METU (Middle East Technical University), Turkey in 2004 and In 2007 received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a minor graduation certificate from the Mechatronics Program. He is currently an M. Sc. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering in KAIST associated with the Integrated Computer Systems Lab. He is also a member of the IEEE. His main research field is in VLSI design, Digital and Analog Integrated Circuits and Digital RF Design. He is currently involved in the research of fast adder design.

celalavci@gmail.com

Student / Author Blurb: Tsvetkov Nikolay

Tsvetkov Nikolaywas born in 1984 in Moscow, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics in 2006 and in 2008 joined the Photovoltaic Materials Laboratory in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at KAIST [the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology] as a PhD student. His research interests center on theoretical investigations in the field of processes of photo generation and carriers transport in the boundary between organic and inorganic materials. Currently he is focused on the study of the different characteristics of nanostructured thin films and possibility of their application for the fabrication high efficiency solar cells.

nicktsvetkov@gmail.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Lee Jin Young

Lee Jin Young received a Bachelor's Degree from the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at Sung Kyun Kwan University, Suwon, Korea in 2006 and was an exchange student for 2 semesters at the University of IOWA, USA. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from KAIST [the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology], Deajeon and working in the Image Computing Systems Lab (ICSL) supervised by Professor Park Hyun Wook . His research interests include video transcoding, complexity reduction in H.264/AVC, and the development of H.265 video coding.

jylee@athena.kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Yun Hyeok

Yun Hyeok is a M.Sc. candidate in the Department of Physics at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology], where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics. His Bachelor’s research was on the “Measurement of thin film thickness using Twyman-Green type phase-shifting interferometry”. He is now affiliated with CXRC [the Coherent X-Ray Research Center]. His research interest is in the generation of high harmonic beams - such as X-ray - using atomic characteristics, and he is specifically looking into the amplification mechanism of high harmonic beams in X-ray lasing mediums in the atomic and optical field of physics for his Master’s Degree. He ultimately hope to discover all he can about things related to light in nature.

HyeokYun@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Han Songhee

Han Songhee graduated from Kangwon Science High School and entered into KAIST in 2003. In 2004, she won a scholarship from KAIST’s Seoklim Foundation and she participated in the winter-internship program of Hynix in 2005. She received a B.Sc. in chemistry and graduated with top honors from KAIST in 2006. She is currently an M. Sc. candidate in the Department of Chemistry and specifically belongs to the Chemical Dynamics & Nano Materials Laboratory. She is also a member of the Korean Chemical Society. Her main research field is physical chemistry, in particular, focusing on the ion spectroscopy of gas phase molecules through the use of pulsed-field ionization photo-fragment excitation schemes and mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectroscopy.

hatch@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Park Sunyoung

Park Sunyoung is currently a graduate student in the Department of Industrial Design at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology] and a researcher in the Collaborative & Interaction Design Laboratory at the same institution. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in design at the same institution in 2006 and was an exchange student UTC(University of Technology Compiegne) in France for 1 year in 2004. She worked for the Product Design Planning Department, at iriver for one year in 2007. She is currently conducting research on interaction prototyping for co-design and will presenting an her interactive media installation with a colleague in the 'work-in-progress 'exhibition section at the CHI (Computer Human Interaction) 2008 conference.

sun0@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Lee Joonsuk

Lee Joonsuk was born in Incheon, South Korea, on the 20th of November 1981. He received a Bachelors Degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from Korea University, Ahn-ahm, South Korea in 2007. He is currently a graduate student in at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology] and an adjunct member of the engineering staff at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, South Korea. He is currently involved in the research and development of phase change random access memory (PRAM) which is expected to be a candidate for the next generation memory device in the near future using nanowire synthesis via VLS (Vapor – Liquid – Solid) growth mechanism.

neplusultra@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Lee Boram

Lee Boram graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology] in 2007. She is currently a researcher in the Design Media Laboratory at KAIST and is in the process of getting a Master's Degree in the Department of Industrial Design at the same institution. She has studies at the University of Technology of Compiegne in France for 6 months as an exchange student in 2005 and in 2006 received an award for excellence as part of the graduation exhibition from idKAIST. Earlier she participated in the ‘emerging technology’ exhibition at SIGGRAPH2007 in San-Diego. In 2007 Lee participated in the Ubiquitous Fashionable Computing Project with the support of the Ministry of Information and Communication. Lee will participate in the interactivity exhibition in the CHI 2008 conference. She is interested in both sustainable and Interactive design.

boram01@gmail.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Choe Jeehyun

Choe Jeehyun is pursuing Master's Degree in Robotics Engineering in KAIST[the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology], Daejeon, Korea, under the supervision of Professor Lee Ju-Jang. She has done research on the control of mobile robots with Indoor GPS systems in the Center for Cognitive Robotics Research, Intelligent System Research Division, KIST[Korea Institute for Science and Technology], Seoul, Korea, as a Research Trainee from January to April, 2007. She received Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Yonsei University in 2008: her thesis for Creative Research project as a team was Implementing Wibro[Wireless Broadband, IEEE802.16e] MIMO systems on DSP boards. Currently, her fields of interests are intelligent systems and wireless devices.

goya@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Han Seungchan

Han Seungchan was born in Seoul, Korea. He received Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Yonsei University in 2007: his thesis being about optoelectronic mixers based on InP/InGaAs HBT phototransistors. He worked at IHP Microelectronics in Frankfurt, Germany as an intern researcher managing modeling of SiGe HBT devices and its reliability issues for first half of 2007. At present, he is pursuing Master Degree studies in EECS, KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology] and is working in the Integrated Organic Electronics Laboratory (IOEL) supervised by Prof. Yoo Seunghyup , as a research assistant. He is mainly interested in organic material based solarcells and novel structured oxide thin-film transistors for memory applications.

s.han@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Woo Seong-woo

Woo Seong-woo graduated from Sungkynkwan University, Yuljeon, Suwon, South Korea and receiving a B.Sc. degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is a graduate student at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology], Daejeon, South Korea and is working as a research student in the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon. He is currently conducting research on the development of a flexible tactile sensor, utilizing a conventional ink-jet printer and incorporating creative materials such as a extremely conductive, pressure variable resistor ink adding thinner.

dntjddn@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Pak Jiwoo

Pak Jiwoo received a Bachelors Degree in electrical engineering from KAIST [the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology], Daejeon, in 2007, where she is currently pursuing the Master Degree. She has been working on the design of a highly-integrated three-dimensional stacked SiP (System-in-Package), especially for the mixed-mode system with RF (radio frequency) system and digital system, such as SiP for T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting). Her current research interest is in developing a design methodology to improve the sensitivity of RF signals in mixed-mode packages, by utilizing signal integrity and power integrity issues.

jiwoo@eeinfo.kaist.ac.

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Student / Author Blurb: Lee Jung-Woo

Lee Jung-Woo was born in Seoul in 1984. He received a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering with minor in Business Economics from KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology] in 2007 for which he received a scholarship from the President of Korea. He currently studies in the MS-Ph.D. joint program on Industrial Engineering at KAIST and receives full scholarship from the government. His primary research interest is in entrepreneurship. He is a researcher in the Center for Science-based Entrepreneurship(CSE) at KAIST and has taken charge of many BEP courses as a teaching assistant. He was an award winner in the 'Future Mobile Terminal Idea Contest’ and has participated in the project team launched by KAIST to commercialize the idea. He worked as a project manager in KAIST SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) and won 3rd place prize in the National SIFE Competitor in 2007. He served his internship at the Ubiquitous-IT Strategy Research Team of ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute) in the summer of 2006. He is a senior member of Doolly (the KAIST Basketball Club) and has represented KAIST in many 'KAPO War' basketball matches.

jungwoolee@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Tran Ngoc Tung

Tran Ngoc Tung was born and grew up in a small, peaceful and beautiful town in the north of Hanoi - the capital of Vietnam. His curiosity about nature was inspired by the marvelous scenes around him, with their harmoniously integrated rivers, mountains and alluvial plains. He was a curious boy eager to learn about every life science phenomena. He spent 3 years in the high school for gifted students which is part of the Hanoi University of Sciences (HUS), and spent the following 4 years in the same University studying biology. In two consecutive years (2001, 2002) he won two prizes in the national biology competition. [He graduated with excellent degrees in both high school and university?] He is especially interested in applying stem cells to cell therapy and is now studying in the Stem Cell Research Center at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology] as a graduate student, and is well on his way to become a stem cell biologist.

tungbio@gmail.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Kang Seung-Mo

Kang Seung-Mo was born in Suwon, Korea, in 1980. He received a Bachelors of Science degree in material science and engineering in 2006 from Sungkyunkwan University, Suwom. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Photovoltaic Materials Laboratory in the Department of materials science and engineering at [KAIST] the Korea Advanced institute of Science and Technology, where he received a M.Sc. degree. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the same institution. His research interests cover a broad area in the field of silicon devices, ranging from low temperature poly-Si crystallization, thin film transistors fabrication, and solar cells. In particular, his current interest is the crystallization of amorphous Si thin film using pulsed rapid thermal annealing.

kkangs414@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Park Hyun-hee

Park Hyun-hee graduated from Dae-gu Science High school and received a Bachelor's Degree in Science from Ajou University in 2007. She is currently a Masters student in electrical engineering at KAIST (the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). She is interested in studying PMIC (Power Management of Integrated Circuits) and SMPS (Switch Mode Power Supply). Her current research is focused on analyzing and designing both analog circuits and converters - with a special interest in the development of a converter which betters the one currently being used by Texas Instruments.

phh0311@kaist.ac.kr.

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Student / Author Blurb: Yoo Jeong-Sik

Yoo Jeong-Sik received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Engineering from Chungnam National University, Deajeon, Korea in 2007 and he is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from KAIST [the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology], Deajeon. He has been working on signal integrity and power integrity design of high-speed system over gigahertz. His current research interest is in the power distribution design in high-speed mixed-mode system, using electromagnetic band-gap structure and novel electromagnetic bandgap structures for broadband noise isolation in multi layer package and printed circuit board (PCB). His research includes electromagnetic compatibility and interference (EMC/EMI) and the suppression of simultaneous switching noise (SSN).

jsyoo@eeinfo.kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Vo Van Quang

Vo Van Quang was born in 1983 in Vietnam. He earned a Bachelor's Degree from HUT, [the Hanoi University of Technology], Vietnam in electrical engineering in 2006. Whist studying at HUT, he participated in research into robotic control. He also has been an active member in air traffic control projects at ATTECH, [the Vietnam Air Traffic Technical Services Center] from 2006 to 2007 and currently studies in the Masters Program within the Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology] in Daejeon, Korea. Quang's current research interests center around intelligent control, machine learning and recognition.

quang_bkhn@yahoo.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Sah Young-June

Sah Young-June is a Masters student in the Graduate School of Cultural Technology, KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology]. After graduating from Seoul National University majoring in industrial engineering and statistics, he joined Korean Air as an employee. After 8 months of working in the company he realized what he really wanted to do and started to prepare for a career as researcher at KAIST. As a member of Cultural Management and Policy Lab, Sah has furthered his interest in the economics of creative and cultural industry in the era of information. Without the help of predecessors or gurus in the field he has struggled to learn proper methodologies to solve problems and put his subject in appropriate position and try to take advantage of becoming an early bird in the field.

y_june@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Oktay Yarimaga

Oktay Yarimaga received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey in 2002, and a Masters Degree in Mechatronics from Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technology, Korea, 2005. His Masters research was on the “Electrotactile Systems” which are used to provide visual aid to the visually impaired people through their tactile feelings. He is now pursuing his Ph,D. in MEMS and Nanotechnology, at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology]. He was involved in many projects as a research assistant and has several publications, patents and awards on electrotactile displays, flexible organic polymer displays, nanoparticles-nanostructures for nanogap fabrication and biosensor applications, and counterfeit detection system using thermochromic polymer film as a security label.

oyarimaga@hotmail.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Oh Hyo-Jung

Oh Hyo-Jung is a graduate student in the Department of Industrial Design at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology] and a researcher in the Product & Environment System Design Research Laboratory at the same institution. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in design at Korea National University of Arts in 2007 and worked for the Strategy Planning Office, at SK Communications. She has also worked as a stage designer for the mobile photo album of actress, Han Chaeyoung. She gained a colorist license and is also interested in psychology of color. In 2006 she won an award in the field of product design in the Autodesk Design Competition and participated in an academic-industrial next generation sports car interior design cooperative project with Hyundai Motors in 2005 and a Hybrid C.U.V Interior design project with Kia Motors in 2004.

oh011@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Mao Wentao

Mao Wentao was born in Guizhou Province, China. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Automation from Tsinghua University, Beijing China, in 2007 and since February 2008 has been studying for a Masters Degree in electronic engineering at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institutie of Science and Technology] Deajeon, Korea. His primary research interests include artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality research and control theory. He is also actively involved in the embedded system. As an undergraduate student in Tsinghua University, he spent two years from 2005 to 2007 on the research of embedded systems in projects such as the remote control of flight of mini-helicopter with DSP. His current study interest is focused on how to realize artificial intelligence via hardware systems.

MaoWT@live.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Kim Young-Min

Kim Young-Min was born in Inchon, 1973. He obtained a Master’s Degree in materials science from Seoul National University in 2001. After 1 year working in a comapny as an engineer, he joined Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) as an analysis researcher. Since then, he has been working at KBSI in the field of electron microscopy for materials science. He has won an official commendation in 2004 from the Ministry of Science and Technology for the successful installation of a high voltage electron microscope as a national user facility: the first electron microscope with atomic resolution in Korea. He has published 16 articles in major journals related to materials science and electron microscopy research. His current research areas of interest include atomic resolution electron microscopy techniques and the related quantum mechanical calculations. In order to advance in his interests, he is at present in the Doctoral Program for materials science at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology].

y-mkim@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Jeon Nam-Ho

Jeon Nam-Ho was born on Feb 13th, 1983, in Daejon, Korea. He received his Bachelors Degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering from Yonsei university, Seoul, Korea, in 2007. He is currently completing his Masters Degree studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST [the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology], Dajeon, Korea, under the direction of Professor S.Yoo in the Integrated Organic Electronics Laboratory. His primary research interests are the organic and the oxide thin-film transistors. During his Masters Degree studies he has been involved in research projects including the development of the organic/ inorganic hybrid complementary thin-film transistor circuits.

namho.jeon@gmail.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Im Sang-Hui

Im Sang-Hui is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics at KAIST [the Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology]. He gained his undergraduate degree in physics from KAIST in 2006, and finished his M.A. course at the same institution in 2008. His scientific interests are primarially about the fundamental principles of nature. For him, while physically fundamental mean cannot be explained by other physical entities, conversely every phenomenon in nature can be viewed as a consequence from. To study this principle, he is primarialy involved in the investigation of the physics of the elementary particles constituting every matter and force. He is especially focusing on new phenomena in upcoming experiments at LHC (Large Hadron Collider) while expecting discovery of new physics beyond standard model, such as supersymmetry signal. He is currently studying various supersymmetry breaking mechanisms and its relevance to nature.

shim@muon.kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Hwang Chul-Soon

Hwang Chul-Soon received a Bachelors Degree .in Electrical Engineering from KAIST [the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology], Deajeon, in 2007 He is currently pursing a Masters Degree at the same institution and has been working on gigaherz system signal integrity design, with the aim of minimizing EMI radiation. His current research interest is the minimizing power / ground cavity resonance effect on signal intergrity in multi-layer printed circuit boards (PCB).

hwang080@eeinfo.kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Ha Heon-Joo

Ha Heon-Joo is a graduate student in Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST, Korea. He lived in the United States of America for four years, three years in Storrs, Connecticut, and one year in Kent, Ohio. After finishing his sophomore course in Hongik University, he transferred to Yonsei University and continuing from his junior year acquired his Bachelor degree in majoring Chemical Engineering. Ha has received numerous honors, prizes and scholarships for his excellence in Chemical Engineering from both University’s he has attended during his undergraduate years. He also won 3rd prize in the Fall Academic Conference of Scientific Graduation Thesis in 2007.

mahakid@hotmail.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Eugene Park

Eugene Park is Masters Student in the Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Dajeon, Korea. He did his B.A in Business Administration at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and has worked at Samsung Electronics Company in the New Media and Network Planning Department since 2005 and an online game company, CCR Inc. for three years. He received a Silver Prize in the ‘Competition for Sports Industry Vitalizing Strategy’ in 2007 (SOSFO, Seoul Olympic Sports Promotion Foundation) and a Grand Prize in the ‘Marketing Idea Competition for Hangame.com’ in 2004. His current areas of interest include: media economics-psychology, business strategies for media & entertainment companies, and content management and social herding behavior for online decision making.

gunners@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Cho Heyrim

Cho Heyrim, M.S. student of Department of Mathematical Science at KAIST, was born in Seoul, Korea in 1986. She graduated early from Hansung Science High School and majored in Applied Mathematics at KAIST as an undergraduate student. She is now studying with Professor Lee Chang-Ock, as a member of the Computational Mathematics Laboratory and enjoying her job as a T.A of an Undergraduate Analysis Course. Her current research interest is in the use of computational methods in the solving of partial differential equations, such as DDM (Domain Decomposition Methods) and FEM (Finite Element Methods).

ashyblue@paran.com

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Student / Author Blurb: Kim Bo-Mi

Kim Bo-Mi BS 2007 in Industrial Design, is a graduate student in the Industrial Design Department at KAIST and researcher at the Product & Environment System Design Research Laboratory at KAIST. She has a special interest in robot design and has successfully completed many HRI and design related projects since March 2007. Gaining a number of prizes in robot competitions .including the International Robot Design Competition, Ro-Man 2007 and the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, she has also taken prizes in other competitions including Human Nature Scholarship, the Biosystem Future Vision Competition and the Undergraduate Research Program. She has had an article published in a journal on environment design and delivered two conference papers on environment design and interaction design. She interned at the Technology Study Team based on CG in ETRI.

elfspell@kaist.ac.kr

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Student / Author Blurb: Ahn Seon-Min

Ahn Seon-Min was born January 2, 1985, in Daegu, Korea. After graduating from Daegu Science High School, she entered KAIST. She attended the YSEP (Young Scientist Exchange Program) in 2005. During the program, she stayed at the Tokyo Institute of Technology for one year and studied in seismic damage on a bridge. She graduated with a double major in applied mathematics and civil & environmental engineering, at KAIST in 2007. She is now a Maters student at KAIST, majoring in mathematical sciences and belongs to the Computational Mathematics Lab. She is preparing a Master's thesis on medical imaging.

minnim@kaist.ac.kr

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Peripheral 'Scientifc Writing' Genres: 1: The Open Letter

As noted in class this week, one type of genre that can be said to fallen in genre of scientific writing if it is braodly defined is that of the "[Scientific] Open Letter". According to the post in Wikipedia:

"An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed intentionally. Open letters usually take the form of a letter addressed to an individual but provided to the public through newspapers and other media, such as a letter to the editor or blog. Especially common are critical open letters addressed to political leaders. Letters patent are another form of open letter in which a legal document is both mailed to a person by the government, and publicized so that all are made aware of it. Open letters can also be addressed directly to a group rather than any individual."

Among the reasons, noted in the Wikipedia article, motivating the form of an 'open letter' are:
- To state the author's position on a particular issue
- As an attempt to start or end a wider dialogue around an issue
- As an attempt to focus broad attention on the letter's recipient, prompting them to some action
- For humor value [or]
- to simply to make public a communication that must take place as a letter for reasons of formality

Among famous examples of 'open letters' which may be well known to you are:

1. Many of the epistles of The Bible (such as the Pauline epistles)
2. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail
3. Bill Gates's Open Letter to Hobbyists attacking sharing and cooperation in software development, practices of which he did not approve

Among Open Letters related to the field of science are:

1. First Open Letter about the Freedom of Science to some 290 public figures, personalities, newspapers, and journals in Europe and the USA [2006]
2. Meth Science Not Stigma: An Open Letter to the Media David C. Lewis, M.D et al July 25, 2005
3. Open Letter from World Scientists to All Governments Concerning Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)[2000]

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Message From Simon Peripheral 'Scientific Writing' Genres &Student Author Blurbs

1. As mentioned in class this week, while in your major work for this semester, you can write an present a piece of scientific writing in the form the term is often narrowly defined - that is, as a piece of writing documenting research for a peer reviewed scientific journal - it will also be possible for you to write and present a piece of writing that falls within genres on the edge of scientific writing such as 'the literature review', 'the patent application', and 'the research proposal'.

Each of these peripheral science writing genres have distinct aims and objects as well as conventions and over the next week or so, I will try and provide on this blog example and brief introductions to some of these genres and suggestions as to where you can find further information on both how to write them and issues related to their construction.

2. I will also be putting up over the next couple of days the student / author blurbs. I'll do some minor editing to make sure that there is some consistency between them but I'd really like you to critique them yourselves. If you'd like to make some general comments on the blurbs - on what works or does not work for you, you can leave them i the comments section at the bottom of this posting.

[the picture of me was taken in Singapore in 1991 on my way home from a year in India. I look so thin becuase I was recovering from having caught hepatitus while doing research in some of the slums in Bombay].

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Online Science Journal: PLoS Biology

PLoS Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed general biology journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. New articles are published online weekly; issues are published monthly. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works they publish. Under the CCAL, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article, but authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles in PLoS journals, so long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers. To provide open access, PLoS journals use a business model in which their expenses—including those of peer review, journal production, and online hosting and archiving—are recovered in part by charging a publication fee to the authors or research sponsors for each article they publish. For PLoS Biology the publication fee is US$2750. Authors who are affiliated with one of their Institutional Members are eligible for a discount on this fee. They offer a complete or partial fee waiver for authors who do not have funds to cover publication fees. Editors and reviewers have no access to payment information, and hence inability to pay will not influence the decision to publish a paper.

To see PLOS Biology, go here

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'Science' Article of the Week 6: Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms Of Pseudoscience

MASSILLON, OH—Stressed and sore-footed Americans everywhere are clamoring for the exciting new MagnaSoles shoe inserts, which stimulate and soothe the wearer's feet using no fewer than five forms of pseudoscience. Onion News March 31, 1999 | Issue 35•12

To read more go here

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Additional Reading: Week 6: The Results

Please find below some links to some addition readings for the theme: "The Results"

1. Writing Up The Results [Asian Institute of Technology]
2. Writing Up Your Results [GradPsych]
3. Writing Up and Presenting the Results [World Agroforestry Center]
4. Undertanding/Writing the Results Section [Valdosta State University]

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Powerpoint Presentation: Week 6: The Results

Please find below links to pdf files of the PowerPoint presentations for Week 6 on writing up the Results.

PowerPoint Presentation 6:1 - The Results [i]

PowerPoint Presentation 6:2 - The Results [ii]

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Lecture Summaries: Week 6: The Results

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summaries for Week 6 on Results

Lecture Summary 6:1 - The Results [i]

Lecture Summary 6:2 - The Results [ii]

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Compulosory Assesment Activity: 1 Author Blurb

What I would like you to do before next week is write a blurb about yourself. The blurb should be:

1. between 100 and 150 words.

2. should contain and the information about your qualifications and
where they were obtained

3. Should conclude with your email address.

Copies of the blurbs will be put up on the web page.

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Lecture Summaries: Week 5: Methods & Materials

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summaries for Week 5 on Methods & Materials

Lecture Summary 5:1 - Methods & Materials

Lecture Summary 5:2 - Methods & Materials

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Online Science Journal: New Scientist

New Scientist is a weekly international science magazine and website covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English-speaking audience. Founded in 1956, it is published by Reed Business Information Ltd, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. New Scientist has maintained a website since 1996, publishing daily news. As well as covering current events and news from the scientific community, the magazine often features speculative articles, ranging from the technical to the philosophical [Answers.com]. While it is a journal one can only access the full version of by subscription. A number of articles are accessiable for free: a larger number being accessible for free in the Archives

New Scientist: Journal
New Scientist: Podcast

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'Science' Article of the Week 5: Half Of 26-Year-Old's Memories Nintendo-Related

Sponsored by BROOKLYN, NY—Nearly 50 percent of 26-year-old paralegal Philip Jenkins' encoded long-term memories involve button combinations, game-playing experiences, and spatial-cognitive maps of various levels and worlds from Nintendo's line of video-game consoles, a team of neuroscientists reported Tuesday. Onion News January 12, 2008 | Issue 44•02

To Read more go here

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Additional Reading: Week 5: Methods & Materials

Please find below some links tosome addition readings for the theme of Week 5: Material & Methods.

1. Material & Methods [University of Richmond]
2. Writing Manual for Scientific Papers [Anderson & Large]
3. Methods and Materials [Bates College]
4. Methods Section [University of Wisconsin-Madison]

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Powerpoint Presentation: Week 5: Lesson 2

Find below a link to a PDF file of PowerPoint Preseentation for Week 5: Lesson 2 - Methods & Materials [ii]

PowerPoint Presentation 5:2

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Powerpoint Presentation: Week 5: Lesson 1

Please find below a link to a PDF version of the powerpoint presentation for Week 5: Lesson 1 - Materials & Methods [I]

PowerPoint Presentation 5:1

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Lecture Summaries: Week 4: The Introduction

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summaries for Week 4 on The Introduction

Lecture Summary 4:1 - The Introduction [i]

Lecture Summary 4:2 - The Introduction [ii]

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'Science' Article of the Week 4: CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar For Michael Bay

LOS ANGELES—A leading team of CGI experts hand-selected by blockbuster producer and director Michael Bay has pushed the limits of what can be accomplished with special effects and digital imaging by creating a computer- generated best-director Oscar for the 43-year-old filmmaker. The Onion News February 20, 2008 | Issue 44•08

To read more go CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar For Michael Bayhere

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Online Science Journal: Scientific American

American Scientist is an illustrated bimonthly magazine about science and technology. Each issue is filled with feature articles written by prominent scientists and engineers, reviewing important work in fields that range from molecular biology to computer engineering. The articles, according to the Journals web site "are carefully edited and accompanied by illustrations that are developed to enhance the reader's understanding and enjoyment".

Scientific American

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Additional Reading: Week 4: Lesson 2

Please find below links to some additonal material on the topic for Week 4 - "The Introduction"

1. Academic Writer [VLC Hong Kong]
2. What is the purpose of research? [Virginia Cano]
3. Writing an introduction [Online Writing Lab]
4. Introductions To Research Papers [Central European University]
5. The Scientific Paper: Introduction [George Mason University]
6. The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It [University of Toronto]

7. The Literature Review [University of Queensland]
8. Literature Review [Wikipedia]

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