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