Xiyan Zhong (钟希妍)

I will be a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn starting August 1st, 2025. I did my Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of Andrew Putman.
Here is my CV.

Contact Information:

Research Interest:

I am mainly interested in geometric group theory, especially mapping class groups.

Papers/Preprints:

Prym Representations and Twisted Cohomology of the Mapping Class Group with Level Structures. To appear in Geometry&Topology.

Education:

• Peking University (2016.09-2020.07)
     Advisor: Yi Liu
     Thesis: Introduction to Gromov Hyperbolicity of the Curve Complex
• University of Notre Dame (2020.08-)
     Advisor: Andrew Putman

Summer Project in 2019 :

Seminars:

• Hosted the Graduate Student Topology Seminar on Fall 2022, with a minicourse on homology stability of mapping class groups (Notes)

Conferences Attended:

• Topology Student Workshop at Vanderbilt University
• Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference at Northeastern University
• Stability in Topology, Arithmetic, and Representation Theory 2022 at Purdue Univerity
• Workshop/Minicourse on Mod(M^4) at the University of Chicago

Teaching Experience:

• Fall 2023: Instructor, Calculus A (Math 10350)
• Spring 2023: Teaching Assistant, Calculus III (Math 20550)
• Fall 2022: Teaching Assistant, Calculus II (Math 10560)
• Spring 2022: Teaching Assistant, Calculus III (Math 20550)
• Fall 2021: Teaching Assistant, Calculus A (Math 10350)
• Spring 2020: Teaching Assistant, Mathematical Analysis II for College of Engineering at Peking University
• Fall 2019: Teaching Assistant, Mathematical Analysis I for College of Engineering at Peking University