UKC2014 San Francisco - Forward Together

This symposium will be an annual celebration for the Korean-American mathematics and statistics community in cooperation with the US-Korea Conference. The goal of this symposium is to bring together all researchers in the areas of mathematics, statistics, related science and engineering from Korea and the United States. Participants will have the opportunity to share recent advances in their research, to network and to forge stronger connections.

The tentative format of the symposium will be as follows:

There will be one poster session and eight oral presentation sessions. The poster session is scheduled for Friday afternoon (August 8th). The eight oral sessions, each of which will consist of four to six speakers. Each speaker will have 20-minutes. There will be three mathematics sessions on Thursday, two sessions (in Math and/or Stat) on Friday, and three sessions (in Stat and/or Math) on Saturday. Among the eight, three sessions will feature this year's special sessions on Bio-Statistics, Bio-Informatics and Bio-Mathematics.

We cordially invite all researchers in all areas of mathematical science to join us.

Chair
	Sung-Yell Song Iowa State University USA
Co-Chair		Co-Chair
	MoonJung Cho US Bureau of Labor Statistics USA		Taesung Park Seoul National University Korea

Keynote Speakers
Name	Affiliation	Title
Moon Jung Cho	U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Taesung Park	Seoul National University
Sung-Yell Song	Iowa State University

Session Chairs
Name	Affiliation	Session
Ji Young Choi	Shippensburg University	Algebra and Discrete Mathematics (8/7/14 (1:30- 3:30pm))
Donsig Jang	Mathematica Policy Research	Stat: Theory and Application I (8/9/14 (8-9:40am))
Jae Hun Jung	SUNY Buffalo	Applied and Financial Math (8/7/14 (4 - 6pm)
Sookkyung Lim	University of Cincinnati	Bio-Mathematics (8/8/14 (8-9:40am))
Grace Hyun Kim	UCLA	Analysis and Geometry (8/7/14 (8-9:40am))
Hae Soo Oh	UNC Charlotte	Partial geometric designs and difference families
Taesung Park	Seoul National University	Bio-Stat and Bio-Informatics (8/8/14 (1:30-3:30pm))
Yonil Park	National Institute of Health	Stat: Theory and Application II (8/9/14 (1:30-3:30 pm))

Invited Speakers
Name	Affiliation	Title
Eungchun Cho	Kentucky State University	Geometry, Topology and Data Analysis II
Ji Young Choi	Shippensburg University	Impossible counterexamples to Collatz conjecture
Yoonha Choi	Stanford University	Family-based genetic study of immune thrombocytopenia based on the combined analysis of genome-wide linkage scan and whole genome sequencing
YounJeong Choi	Genentech Inc.	Applying an Integrative Approach for Understanding Bladder Cancer Biology
Yun Chon	Amgen Inc.	Study designs reducing placebo response
Joon Ha	NIH	Exploration of pathways to diabetes with a mathematical model
Donsig Jang	Mathematica Policy Research	Adaptive design focusing on timely and on-budget delivery of high quality data
Woncheol Jang	Seoul National University	Shrunken Discriminant Analysis
Jae Hun Jung	SUNY Buffalo	Spectral filtering and conjugation for the successive identification of discontinuities
Yeona Kang	Brookhaven National Laboratory	QSPR/PET Imaging Predicts Blood-Brain barrier Transport and Efflux of Benzamides
Grace Hyun Kim	UCLA	Initial study of spatial heterogeneity in lung air-trapping
SunWong Kim	Dongguk University	Evaluating coverage and accuracy of census list of households using new IT
Jae Kwang Kim	Iowa State University	Propensity-score-adjustment method for nonignorable nonresponse
Namhee Kim	NewYork University	Computational RNA Topology Prediction by a Hierarchical Graph Sampling Approach
Soeun Kim	University of Texas, Health Science Center	Model based imputation methods for missing covariates in regression models with interactions
Sunhee Kwon Ro	Onyx Pharmaceuticals	Sample size re-estimation in multi-center oncology trials with time-to-event endpoint using Bayesian
Sookkyung Lim	University of Cincinnati	Simulations of bacterial flagellar budling by using the generalized immersed boundary method
Hae Soo Oh	UNC Charlotte	Collocated enrichment for isogeometric analysis of elliptic boundary value problems with singularities
MyungShin Oh	Baxter Healthcare Co.	Applications and Limitations of Statistical Modelling
Inho Park	Pukyung national University	A study on design effect models for stratified multi-stage sampling
Yonil Park	NCBI, National Library of Medicine, NIH	Importance sampling for a Markov renewal success process
Minsun Song	National Institute of Health, NCI	Testing calibration of risk models at extremes of disease-risk
Eunjeong Yi	Texas A&M, Galveston	The fractional metric dimension of trees and generalized prisms