{"id":37,"date":"2025-02-24T00:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathyuan.com\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:39:12","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathyuan.com\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Xu-Yuan (\u8bb8\u8fdc), roughly pronounced as [Shoo-ywen] in Mandarin, and [Hui-ywun] in Cantonese. I am currently a master&#8217;s student at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/en.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/en.html\">University of Zurich<\/a>, being advised by Prof. Anna Beliakova, and Dr. Luke Conners. I obtained my Bachlor of Science in 2024 at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.xjtu.edu.cn\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/en.xjtu.edu.cn\/\">Xi&#8217;an Jiaotong University<\/a>, advised by Prof. Dr. Qiang Zhang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research interest lies in low-dimensional topology. I speak Mandarin (native), English (fluent), and Cantonese (native).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">Articles<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Master&#8217;s thesis (in progress): Poincare series of colored HOMFLY homology of positive torus knot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bachelor&#8217;s thesis: <em>The Nielsen-Thurston Classification of Automorphisms of Surfaces<\/em>, in Chinese.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">Previous activities<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2025.06-2025.06 <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.ictp.it\/event\/10839\/overview\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/indico.ictp.it\/event\/10839\/overview\">Summer School on Modern Tools in Low-dimensional Topology<\/a>, ICTP, Trieste<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025.02-2025.06 &#8220;3+X&#8221; Seminar on Low-dimensional Topology, Peking University, Beijing<br>Kai Zhu and I gave a talk on Nielsen&#8217;s realization, based on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2007076\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2007076\">The Nielsen Realization Problem<\/a><\/em> by Kerckhoff.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024.01-2024.06 <a href=\"https:\/\/bicmr.pku.edu.cn\/content\/page\/78.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bicmr.pku.edu.cn\/content\/page\/78.html\">Enhanced Program for Graduate Study<\/a>, BICMR, Beijing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023.08-2023.08 <a href=\"https:\/\/bicmr.pku.edu.cn\/cn\/content\/show\/17-2962.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bicmr.pku.edu.cn\/cn\/content\/show\/17-2962.html\">Summer School on Differential Geometry<\/a>, BICMR, Beijing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023.01-2024.05 Visiting student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of this website, except this webpage, is in Chinese. 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