Time：14:00-16:00, Friday, November 1 2024
Venue: E10-212
Speaker：Zhengyi Zhou, Morningside Center of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Biography: Zhengyi Zhou received his PhD degree from UC Berkeley in 2018. After that, he spent three years at IAS Princeton as a postdoc. Starting from 2021, he is an associate professor at the Morningside Center of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science. His research interest lies in symplectic and contact topology.
Title: Contact topology of isolated singularities and applications
Abstract: Links of isolated singularities are naturally contact manifolds. There are many interactions between contact topology of the link and algebro-geometric properties of the singularity. I will present two results in complex analysis and geometry, where contact topology can help. Namely, the solution to the generalized Bishop problem in higher dimensions and the study of Kahler compactification of C^n. These are based on a joint work with Hanlong Fang, Xiaojun Huang and Wanke Yin and a joint work with Chi Li.
