Yoon, Soowhan (Jack)

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Awards

• Excellence in Teaching – Departmental award given to a graduate student who excelled at under-graduate teaching, University of Hawaii at Manoa (2020)Riley Plymale Award
• (Excellence in Mathematics) – Departmental award given to the highest per-forming student each year, Mercer University (2016)
• Patterson Prize (Outstanding Presentation) – Regional award given to undergraduate students with outstanding presentations at the MAA sectional meeting, MAA Southeastern Sectional (2015)
• Outstanding Junior Award – Departmental award given to the highest performing junior level student each year, Mercer University (2015)
• Outstanding Presentation – Institutional award given to students with outstanding presentation at the campus-wide research competition, Mercer University (2014)

Program Participation

• Research Workshop – AMS-MRC Combinatorial Applications of Computational Geometry and Algebraic Topology, American Mathematical Society, virtual event (Summer 2020) (Postponed to Summer 2021)
• Research Internship – Automata Theory & Lempel-Ziv Jaccard information theoretic distance (under supervision of Bjrn Kjos-Hanssen), Decision Research Corporation, Hawaii, US (Summer 2020)
• ResearchWorkshop – CMO-BIRs Reverse Mathematics of Combinatorial Principles, Oaxaca, Mexico (Sept 2019)
• Summer Exchange – Coding Theory & Formal proof verication in Lean (under supervision of Hagiwara Manabu), Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (Summer 2018)
• Conference FPSAC Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Korean Advanced Institute
  of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (July 2015)

Service

• MathSciNet Reviewer – Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet Reviewer Number:169065 (March 2023- Present)
• Vice president of AMS graduate student chapter – University of Hawaii at Manoa (2019)
• Founding member of Pi Mu Epsilon chapter – Successfully petitioned a Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics honors society chapter at Mercer University (2016)
• President of Math Club – Mercer University (2015-2016)

Talks

• Gratzer-Schmidt theorem in arithmetical transnite recursion, 17th International Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness, Nagoya University (March 2024)
  Analyzing walks with combinatorics and automata theory, University of Hawaii at Manoa (April2022)
• Applying the ideas of reverse mathematics to combinatorics/computer algebra, AMS-MRC Combinatorial Applications of Computational Geometry and Algebraic Topology (July 2020)
• Reverse mathematical strength of Gratzer-Schmidt theorem, CMS Winter Meeting (Dec 2019)
• Strategies for computing tighter upper bounds for the sizes of various error correcting codes, AMS Spring Central and Western Joint Sectional (May 2019)
• From Fibonacci sequence to solving polynomials, MAA Southeastern Sectional (2016)
• Polynomials of binomial type { an analytic connection between Fibonacci recurrence and binomial coecients, Joint Mathematics Meeting (2016)
• Solving polynomials, Eagle Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (EUMC), Georgia Southern University (2016)
• Linear sums of binomial coecients, MAA Southeastern Sectional (2015)
• Linear sums of binomial coecients, Mercer University Undergraduate Research Mathematics Conference (MUURMaC), Mercer University (2015)
• Probability distribution of probabilities, Kennesaw Mountain Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (KMUMC), Kennesaw State University (2015)
• Remainder algorithm, Eagle Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (EUMC), Georgia Southern University (2014)