03 Foreword

04 Research at KIAS

• Giant Component and Poisson Cloning Model/ Jeong Han Kim

• Topological Lefschetz Fibrations/ Daniel Zuddas

18 Research by KIAS Visitor

• Holography and Strongly Correlated Many-body System/ Sang-Jin Sin

23 Special Report

• Impressions from the ICM Seoul 2014/ Michel van Garrel

27 Conference Report

• STRINGS 2014 – Meeting the Past and Creating the Future/ Rak-Kyeong Seong

• The 17th Asian Workshop on First-Principles ElectronicStructure Calculations (ASIAN-17)/ Jun-Ho Lee

• Workshop “Geometric Structures and RepresentationVarieties” at KIAS/ Thilo Kuessner

39 Science Cafe

• How Can We Hear Inaudible Sound?/ Sungjong Woo

42 Essay

• Impressions of Seoul/ Qianyi Chen

• Farewell/ Cristiano Sabiu

47 Interview

• Interview with KIAS Alumni/ Filippo Morabito

49 KIAS NEWS

• KIAS Highlights in 2014