Iris (Jieun) KimRutgers University–New Brunswick
I’m an undergraduate student studying Chemical Physics and Mathematics at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
I’m interested in the mathematical structures underlying the physical world, the questions that emerge when we try to understand it, and the unexpected connections between science, philosophy, literature, and art.
H = V·s/L + E·Σ Aᵢ cos(kᵢ·r − ωᵢt + φᵢ)
Three families of streamlines, each the level sets of its own stream function: a bent, slowly turning drift that breathes along the flow, with travelling waves under a slow envelope. Every line stays open; where the families cross, weight and opacity give the depth.
Three ways the same curiosity has been put to work — a research question, a model made interactive, a mathematical structure made visual.
Illustrative waveform
Research
A classical model of a black-hole inspiral, its orbital frequency sweep set beside LIGO's observed spectrograms.
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Scientific Computing
An interactive exploration of finite Fourier synthesis — a signal built one harmonic at a time, and its discrete amplitude spectrum.
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Generative Art
Mathematical structures explored as visual art: complex transformations, vector fields and parametric curves, in International Klein Blue.
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Measuring the area under the alpha band of an EEG spectrum as a quantitative index of restfulness, with an autoencoder trained to denoise the signal before the spectrum is taken.
A QSAR classification study on 1055 compounds: whether 41 molecular descriptors, computed from structure alone, are enough to tell a readily biodegradable chemical from one that persists.
Ongoing investigation; earlier manuscript and poster completed
How the structure of a network decides whether a group of agents can agree — worked through adjacency, degree and Laplacian matrices, and simulated on graphs from four nodes to a hundred.
An early exploration
A developing interest, not a research project: whether the mathematics used to describe perception has anything to say about the choices made in art, and where the analogy stops being useful.
FIRST Tech Challenge · Team 26039 · 2024–2025
Mechanical Lead of FIRST Tech Challenge Team 26039 in the 2024–2025 INTO THE DEEP season: robot mechanisms, with a part in design reviews and development decisions, inside the constraints of competitive robotics.
