My name is Xu-Yuan (许远), roughly pronounced as [Shoo-ywen] in Mandarin, and [Hui-ywun] in Cantonese. I am currently a master’s student at University of Zurich, being advised by Prof. Anna Beliakova, and Dr. Luke Conners. I obtained my Bachlor of Science in 2024 at Xi’an Jiaotong University, advised by Prof. Dr. Qiang Zhang.
My research interest lies in low-dimensional topology. I speak Mandarin (native), English (fluent), and Cantonese (native).
Articles
- Master’s thesis (in progress): Poincare series of colored HOMFLY homology of positive torus knot
- Bachelor’s thesis: The Nielsen-Thurston Classification of Automorphisms of Surfaces, in Chinese.
Previous activities
- 2025.06-2025.06 Summer School on Modern Tools in Low-dimensional Topology, ICTP, Trieste
- 2025.02-2025.06 “3+X” Seminar on Low-dimensional Topology, Peking University, Beijing
Kai Zhu and I gave a talk on Nielsen’s realization, based on The Nielsen Realization Problem by Kerckhoff. - 2024.01-2024.06 Enhanced Program for Graduate Study, BICMR, Beijing
- 2023.08-2023.08 Summer School on Differential Geometry, BICMR, Beijing
- 2023.01-2024.05 Visiting student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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This is a friendly visit from southern China.