Ziwen Zhu

CURRICULUM VITAE

Research Interest

• Birational geometry of Fano varieties, singularities, with focus on the relation with K-stability

• Birational rigidity of Fano varieties and rationality problems

Employment

• Tongji University
  Assistant Professor, 2022-present

• Peking University
  Boya Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2022
  Mentor: Zhiyu Tian

Education

• University of Utah
  Ph.D. in Mathematics, April 2020
  Dissertation: K-stability and equivariant K-stability
  Advisor: Tommaso de Fernex

• Fudan University
  M.S. in Applied Mathematics, June 2014
  Dissertation: Dependence models of claim run-off triangles in claim reserving
  Advisor: Rongmin Li

• Fudan University
  B.S. in Mathematics, Fudan University, June 2011

Invited Talks

• Birational Geometry, Kähler-Einstein Metrics and Degenerations-Pohang, institue for Basic Science, South Korea, Nov. 2019

• Birational Geometry, Kähler-Einstein Metrics and Degenerations-Shanghai, Shanghai Tech University, China, Jun. 2019

• Algebraic Geometry Seminar, SCMS-Fudan University, China, Dec. 2022

• Geometry and Topology Seminar (CIRGET), University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada, May 2021

• Zoom Algebraic Geometry (ZAG) Seminar, online, Jul. 2020

• Algebraic and Tropical Geometry Seminar, Yale University, Oct. 2019

• Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 2019

• Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Utah, Nov. 2018

• Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Fudan University, Nov. 2018

• Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Purdue University, Oct. 2018

Grants and Honors

• Boya Postdoctoral Fellowship, Peking University

• NSF Grant DMS-1700769, Research Assistant

• NSF Grant DMS-1402907, Research Assistant

Attended Conferences

• The 3rd National Algebraic Geometry Conference, online, 2022

• Beijing Geometric Analysis Day, Beijing, 2020

• AIM workshop: K-stability and related topics, San Jose, 2020

• Introductory Workshop: Derived Algebraic Geometry and Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces, MSRI, 2019

• 2018 Fall Program of Moduli Spaces and Varieties, Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, 2018

• Western Algrebraic Geometry Symposium, University of Oregon, 2018
  (Poster session: Higher Codimensional Alpha Invariants and Characterization of Projective Spaces)

• Algebraic Geometry and its Broader Implications, UIC, 2018

• Western Algrebraic Geometry Symposium, San Francisco State University, 2018

• Western Algrebraic Geometry Symposium, UCLA, 2017

• Conference on Birational Geometry, Simons Foundation, 2017

• Hodge Theory, Moduli and Representation Thoery, Stony Brook, 2017

• Summer School and Workshop: Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry, University of Utah, 2016

• Midwest Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Conference, Notre Dame, 2016

• Local and Global Methods in Algebraic Geometry, UIC, 2016

• FRG Mini-workshop: Unramified cohomology, Derived Categories, and Rationality, University of Utah, 2016

• Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium, Washington, 2015

• AMS Summer Research Institute on Algebraic Geometry: Bootcamp and Conference, University of Utah, 2015

• Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium, UC Davis, 2015

Expository Presenstations

• Volumes of Fano manifolds, Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Utah, Fall 2019

• Variation of stable birational types of hypersurfaces, Algebraic Geometry Preprint Seminar, University of Utah, Fall 2019

• The relation between birational superrigidity and K-stability, Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Utah, Spring 2019

• Stable maps in higher dimensions, Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Utah, Fall 2017

• Space of arcs and Singularities, Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Utah, Spring 2017

• The Grothendieck ring of varieties, Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Utah, Fall 2016

• Reflexive Sheaves, Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Utah, Spring 2016

• Analytic vs. algebraic viewpoints, Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Utah, Fall 2015

Services and Outreach Activities

• Tongji-ShanghaiTech Workshop on Algebraic Geometry

Refree for Journal of Algebraic Geometry, International Mathematics Research Notices, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, European Journal of Mathematics.

Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews

Contact point of an AWM event at the University of Utah to help graduate students find advisors, 2018-2020.

Served as the representative of the algebraic geometry group on the graduate student panel of recruitment week at the University of Utah, March 2015 \& 2016;