Jon-Lark Kim, Ph. D. (김종락)

Department of Mathematics
University of Louisville
328 Natural Sciences Building
Louisville, KY 40292

Office: 113 NS, Tel (502) 852-2727, Fax (502) 852-7132

Email :   jl.kim at louisville.edu

Cogito ergo sum, Je pense donc je suis, I think therefore I am, 나는 생각한다 고로 존재한다, 我思故我在

I am therefore I can! (Picture: Extremal coding theory people: Me, Drs. Sloane, Sole, Bannai)

My Daum blog: 수학과 세상살이 (Math and Living)

---

Call for papers :

Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory

in Honour of the Retirement of Vera Pless

a special issue of

International. J. of Information and Coding Theory - IJICOT

Guest editors: Philippe Gaborit, Jon-Lark Kim, Patrick Sole, and Isaac Woungang

Deadline for submissions of manuscript: June 1^st, 2009 (passed)

Submit your full paper to Jon-Lark Kim

The issues are expected to appear in Spring, 2010!

---

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION:

Assistant Professor at Math Dept of University of Louisville (2005-current)

Research Assistant Professor at Math Dept of University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2002-2005)

Ph. D in Math from the University of Illinois at Chicago, May 2002

M.S. in Math from Seoul National University, Korea, Feb. 1997

B.S. in Math from POSTECH, Korea, Feb. 1993

---

TEACHING:

☺ Teaching (Fall, 2009), Office Hour: M 1:30-2:20, TuTh 3:50-4:40, or by appointment.

1. Modern Algebra II (Math 522), TuTh, 1:00-2:15, NS317, syllabus

Textbook: Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph A. Gallian, 7^th edition

2. Precalculus (Math 109), MTuTh, 2:30-3:45, NS110, syllabus

Textbook: Precalculus by Stewart, Redlin, and Watson, 5^th edition

For more information use Blackboard.

☺Courses taught

---

RESEARCH:

☺ Area of Interest :

• Algebra/Combinatorics/Number Theory with applications to Coding Theory

(대수학, 조합론, 정수론을 이용한 부호(코딩)이론)

• Applied Areas of Coding, including Quantum Coding Theory, Network Coding Theory, Biological Coding Theory, Information Theory (쾀턴 코딩, 네트워크 코딩, 생물학적 코딩, 정보이론등 코딩의 응용분야)

Curriculum Vita (pdf file)
Thesis Advisor : Vera Pless
Thesis Title : CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SELF-DUAL CODES AND QUANTUM CODES AND THEIR CONNECTIONS,  Summary of Thesis

☺ List of Publications

(click and see MathSciNet Reviewand Papers Reviewed by me)

☺ Selected Talks

☺Algebra-Combinatorics-Number Theory Seminar (Once a week at NS).

☺Colloquium (Spring, 2009) (Most Fridays at 4PM).

---

AWARD:

☺2004 Kirkman medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applicatoins (Other ICA medals)

---

Editorial Board:

☺ International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT)

Program Committee:

☺12th IMA Conf. on Cryptography and Coding Theory, at Cirencester

---

Conferences:

2006 Fall Central Section AMS Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 21-22, 2006:

☺ Algebraic Coding Theory--Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless

☺Pictures of Attendants

2007 Fall Central Section AMS Meeting, Chicago, IL, Oct. 5-6, 2007:

☺ Algebraic Coding Theory (In honor of Harold N. Ward’s retirement)

---

FAVORATE LINKS:

• Google (Search engine) The Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Coding People (from T.A. Gulliver's Website)
• Best Minimum Distance of [n,k] codes over GF(q)
• MathSciNet Search | The Mathnet Korea
• MAGMA(useful in coding programming) |  GAP
• SIAM on Discrete Math.
• Joyner's Maple Programs
• POSTECH | Com2Mac at Postech | Postech Alumni | PosMath 89 | KGSA
• Hangyere
• Graduate Schools of Math from AMS ( Definition of Groups, Group I, Group II, Group III, Group IV, Group Va), NRC Ranking
• Soccer in SNU(NoSoYaDae)

---

 last modified : 1/8/2010