Qingtao Chen


Email address: chenqtao AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu

Postal address:

Department of Mathematics

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720

USA


Research Interest

Geometry, Topology and Mathematical Physics

In particular, I am interested in

Representation Theory, Quantum Groups, Topological Quantum Field Theory, Low Dimensional Topology, Differential Geometry, K-theory, Elliptic Genera, Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem

and their relation with Quantum Field Theory, String Theory and Supersymmetry.

 

Publication

(Joint with Nicolai Reshetikhin) Recursion Formulas for Quantum Group Invariants, preprint.

(Joint with Lin Chen and Nicolai Reshetikhin) Orthogonal Quantum Group Invariants of Links, preprint.

(Joint with Fei Han) Witten Genus and String Complete Intersections, math.DG/0612055, Pacific Journal of Mathematics 234 (2008), no.2, 249-259.

(Joint with Fei Han) Elliptic Genera, Transgression and Loop Space Chern-Simons Forms, math.DG/0611104, to appear in Communications in Analysis and Geometry.

(Joint with Fei Han) Modular Invariance and Twisted Anomaly Cancellations of Characteristic Numbers, math.DG/0605415, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 361 (2009), 1463-1493.

 

Teaching Experience

2005-Now: Graduate Student Instructor at UC-Berkeley

 

Membership

Member of American Mathematical Society

 

Professional Activities

Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society

 

Hobbies

Singing, Hiking and Swimming

 

Miscellaneous

2006 Champion of Spring Festival Party Talent (Singing) Contest, Berkeley Chinese Students & Scholars Association

2006 Outstanding Performance of Moon Festival Party, Berkeley Chinese Students & Scholars Association

2007 Performance with famous Taiwan pop song writer Jonathan Lee at “The Same Song” broadcasted by China Central Television, San Francisco

 

Math Links

Math Organizations: AIM, AMS, Clay, IAS, IHES, Max Planck, MSRI

Resources Arxiv, MathSciNet, QFT

Others: Citebase Search, Math Genealogy, Wikipedia