Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Global Network Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesAffiliation:NYU Abu Dhabi Education: BSc Fudan University; PhD UC-Berkeley
Research Areas: Mathematical Physics, Quantum Topology and Global Differential Geometry
Qingtao Chen studies Mathematical Physics, a subject on the interface of Mathematics and Physics - more specifically, Geometry and Topology problems originating from string theory and gauge theory in physics. He has discovered several interesting new phenomenon with his collaborators such as string^c structure, volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants, which attracts much attention from the people working in the area of mathematical physics. He has co-organized seminars and is a Reviewer for both Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical Society) and Zentralblatt MATH (European Mathematical Society). He has been a visiting scholar to various leading institutes.
Qingtao Chen comes to NYU Abu Dhabi from the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) as a Senior Researcher supported by SwissMAP program, National Center of Competence in Research (as an Oberassistent at D-MATH) , where he co-supervised 2 Master students and 1 Undergraduate student. Previously he has taught courses ranging from undergraduate courses Calculus, Abstract Algebra, Topology, Differential Geometry to graduate courses Algebraic Topology, Characteristic Classes & Elliptic genus, Quantum Groups and Hyperbolic Geometry.