03 Foreword

04 Nonequilibrim Fluctuation Theorems and Thermodynamic Second Laws

• Hyunggyu Park, School of Physics, KIAS

10 Symplectic Surgeries on Singularities

• Heesang Park, Department of Mathematics, Konkuk University

17 2013: A Good Year for Cosmology A Brief History of Contemporary Cosmology

• Cristiano Sabiu, School of Physics, KIAS

17 2013: A Good Year for Cosmology A Brief History of Contemporary Cosmology

• Cristiano Sabiu, School of Physics, KIAS

24 A Memoir on STATPHYS25

• Doochul Kim, School of Computational Sciences, KIAS

29 Center for Mathematical Challenges Inaugural Conferences

• Mario Chan, Center for Mathematical Challenges, KIAS

34 PRIMA 2013

• Kangjin Han, School of Mathematics, KIAS

36 Transdisciplinarity: Mediating Science and Art Through Images

• Doogab Yi, Department of Western History, Seoul National University

38 APCWQIS 2013: Asia-Pacific Conference & Workshop on Quantum Information Science 2013

• Kabgyun Jeong, School of Computational Sciences

40 “Powers of 60” Exhibition: Multi-messenger Astronomy and the Scale of the Universe

• Martin A. Hendry, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow

44 The Analytic and Arithmetic Mystery of Riemann’s Zeta Function at Positive Integers

• Hojoo Lee, School of Mathematics, KIAS

49 All Geographies Come With a Sense of What is Possible

• Sagar Kolte, School of Mathematics, KIAS

52 A Letter to Mr. Ahn

• Abdelgadir Tarig Mahgoub Hassan, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

55 A Taste of Seoul

• Junyan Cao, School of Mathematics, KIAS

58 Interview with KIAS Alumni Professor Hyun-min Lee

• Junyan Cao, School of Mathematics, KIAS