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Sang-hyun Kim is a faculty member of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. He earned his PhD at Yale University in 2007, under the supervision of Andrew J. Casson. Previously, he has worked at the University of Texas at Austin, Tufts University, KAIST and Seoul National University. He received the Sang-San Prize for Young Mathematicians in 2012, and the Korea Scientist and Engineer of the Month Award in 2020.

Thomas Koberda is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD in 2012 from Harvard University, under the direction of Curtis T. McMullen. He held an NSF postdoctoral fellowship and was a Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University from 2012 to 2015, before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia in 2015, where he was appointed Associate Professor in 2019. In 2017, he was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and was awarded the Kamil Duszenko Prize for his work in geometric group theory.