Qingtao Chen Assistant Professor (NTT) of Mathematics Contact Information E-mail: qingtaoc@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3755 Office: KAP 406H

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

• Busemann Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 08/2009-05/2012  

Description of Research

Research Specialties

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations

• "Representation of Quantum Groups and new invariants of links", Topology of Algebraic Varieties, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Jaca, Spain, Invited, 06/22/2009-06/26/2009  
• "Representations of Quantum Groups and new invariants for links", International Conference on Geometry and Analysis on Manifolds, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, UC-Santa Barbara, Invited, 03/15/2008-03/19/2008  
• "Some Applications of Modular Forms in Topology", Geometric Topology Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Beijing, Invited, 06/18/2007-06/22/2007  
• "Miraculous Cancellation Formula for Odd dimension and Modular Invariants", Third Pacific Rim Conference on Mathematics, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Shanghai, Invited, 08/17/2005-08/21/2005  

Other Presentations

• "Quantum invariants of links", Claremont Topology Seminar, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, Fall 2009   
• "Quantum invariants of links", Differential Geometry Seminar, UC-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Fall 2009   
• "Quantum invariants of links", Lie Theory Seminar, UC-Riverside, Riverside, Fall 2009   
• "Representation of Quantum Groups and new invariants of links", Topology Seminar, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Spring 2009   
• "Representation of Quantum Groups and new invariants of links", Geometry and Physics Seminar, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, 07/2008  
• "Representations of Quantum Groups and new invariant of links", Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics -Graduate Student Seminar, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Fall 2007   
• "Some Applications of Modular Forms in Topology", Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics -Graduate Student Seminar, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Spring 2007   
• "Modular Invariance and Characteristic Forms", Department Colloquium, Fudan University, Shanghai, Fall 2006   

Publications

Journal Article

• Chen, Q., Han, F. (2009). Modular Invariance and Twisted Anomaly Cancellations of Characteristic Numbers. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Vol. 361, pp. 1463-1493.
• Chen, Q., Han, F. (2009). Elliptic Genera, Transgression and Loop Space Chern-Simons Forms. Communications in Analysis and Geometry. Vol. 17 no.1, pp. 73-106.
• Chen, L., Chen, Q., Reshetikhin, N. Orthogonal Quantum Group Invariants of Links.
• Chen, Q., Reshetikhin, N. Recursion Formulas for Quantum Group Invariants.
• Chen, Q., Han, F., Zhang, W. (2009). String^c Manifolds and Modular Characteristic Numbers. Comptes rendus – Mathematics Acad. Sci. Paris.
• Chen, Q., Han, F., Zhang, W. Vanishing Results for Modular Characteristic Numbers on Complete Intersections.
• Chen, Q., Han, F. (2008). Witten Genus and String Complete Intersections. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. Vol. 234 no.2, pp. 249-259.

Honors and Awards

• Three-years Busemann Assistant Professorship, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, 8/2009-5/2012  
• Three-years Simons Center Fellowship, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at SUNY-Stony Brook (Declined), 8/2009-5/2012  
• Invited for three-months visit, (2010-2012) Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Paris, Spring 2009   
• Walter L. Hill Fellowship, Department of Mathematics, UC-Berkeley, Spring 2008   
• Invited as a Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society, Spring 2007   
• Excellent undergraduate student (Graduating with Honor), Fudan University, 2003-2004   
• First prize (Three Times), Fudan University Scholarship, 9/2001-1/2004  
• Second prize, National Mathematical modeling contest, Shanghai Area, 2002-2003   
• Second prize (Fall) & First prize (Spring), Fudan University People’s Scholarship, 2001-2002   
• First prize, Freshman Fellowship, Fudan University, 2000-2001   
• Best Score for Experimental Session (Nan Yang Cup), National Physics Olympiad, Shanghai Area, 1999-2000   
• Best Score of First prize (Champion, Ying Cai Cup), National Physics Olympiad, Shanghai Area, 1999-2000   
• Member of 2000 International Physics Olympiad China Preliminary Team, 1999-2000