Qingchun Ren's Home Page Department of Mathematics at UC Berkeley • 860 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 • qingchun@berkeley.edu

Courses Seminars / talks Papers Teaching Other activities Curriculum vitae       I am a second year graduate student in the department of mathematics at UC Berkeley. My advisor is Bernd Sturmfels. My research interest will be algebraic geometry, or a related field. Here is my research proposal. How to pronounce my name in Chinese Or just call me "Q"! Courses Spring 2011 1. Stat C205B / Math C218B probability theory (Allan Sly) 2. Math 274 topics in algebra / non-archimedean geometry (Matthew Baker) Fall 2011 1. Math 215A algebraic topology (Kate Poirier) 2. Math 255 algebraic curves (Bernd Sturmfels) (term paper presentation slides)(term paper) 3. Math 274 topics in algebra / logarithmic geometry (Arthur Ogus) Spring 2011 1. Math 252 representation theory (Vera Serganova) 2. Math 253 homological algebra (Martin Olsson) (term paper) 3. Math 256B algebraic geometry (Paul Vojta) Fall 2010 1. Math 202A introduction to topology and analysis (Atilla Yilmaz) 2. Math 205 theory of functions of a complex variable (Dan-Virgil Voiculescu) 3. Math 214 differentiable manifolds (Jonathan Dahl) 4. Math 256A algebraic geometry (Richard Borcherds)   Seminars / talks 3. Metric structure of analytic curves, Math 290 seminar on non-archimedean and tropical geometry, 3/13/2012. (slides) 2. Introduction to phylogenetics, seminar on computational algebra, 1/25/2012. (slides) 1. The Neighbor-net algorithm, Berkeley algebraic statistics seminar, 10/12/2011. (slides)   Papers   2. Pavel Etingof, Sherry Gong, Aldo Pacchiano, Qingchun Ren and Travis Schedler, Computational approaches to Poisson traces associated to finite subgroups of Sp(2n, C), arXiv:1101.5171. To appear in Experimental Mathematics. 1. Qingchun Ren and Travis Schedler, On the asymptotic S_n-structure of invariant differential operators on symplectic manifolds, arXiv:1006.0268. Journal of algebra, 356 (2012), 39-89.   Teaching   TBA   Other activities   I was a volunteer code reviewer for the course 6.005 elements of software construction at MIT in Fall 2011.   Curriculum vitae   Here is the complete pdf version. Education 3. August 2010 - Present. Graduate student in the department of mathematics at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Candidate for Ph.D. in mathematics. 2. September 2007 - June 2010. Undergraduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Received B.S. in mathematics and B.S. in computer science. (UAP report) 1. September 2006 - July 2007. Undergraduate student at Peking University, Beijing, China. Experiences 1. May 2011 - August 2011. Software engineering intern at Facebook, Inc, Palo Alto, CA. Awards and Honors 3. Tau Beta Pi membership, February 2010. 2. 69th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, 1st Place Team, Fellow (Top 5), December 2009 1. Google Code Jam 2008, Finalist (Top 100), November 2008. (and more)