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Xiyan Zhong (钟希妍)


I am a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, where my mentor is Ursula Hamenstädt. I did my Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of Andrew Putman.
Here is my CV.


Contact Information:

   Email: zhongx [at] mpim-bonn [dot] de
   Vivatsgasse 7, 53111 Bonn, Germany

Research Interest:

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


Papers/Preprints:

1.Prym Representations and Twisted Cohomology of the Mapping Class Group with Level Structures.(to appear in Geometry & Topology).

2.Linear representations of the mapping class group of dimension at most 3g-3, with Julian Kaufmann, Nick Salter, and Zhong Zhang.(preprint).


Education:


Summer Project in 2019 :

Visited Prof. Justin Malestein at the University of Oklahoma and computed the image of the Johnson homomorphism for all compact surfaces (Report)

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