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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. Geometry & Topology 30-1 (2026), 155--202.

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

3.Stable cohomology of universal character varieties, with Ishan Banerjee, Faye Jackson, Anne Larsen, and Sam Payne.(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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