Wei Zhang
Contact
Information
Department of Mathematics
Columbia University
MC 4423, 2990 Broadway
New York, NY, 10027
Year of Birth
1981
Citizenship
China, US Permanent resident.
Research
Interests
Number theory, automorphic forms and related areas in algebraic geometry
Fax: +1-212-854-8962
Mobile: +1-646-301-5662
E-mail:
wzhang@math.columbia.edu
Employment
07/2011- current Assistant professor, Columbia University.
07/2010-06/2011 Benjamin Peirce Fellow, Harvard University.
07/2009-06/2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University.
Education
2004-2009 Ph.D, Mathematics, Columbia University.
2000-2004 B.S., Mathematics, Peking University.
Award
The 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.
Grants awarded
07/2010 - 11/2011 NSF Grant DMS 1001631.
11/2011 - 06/2013 NSF Grant DMS 1204365.
Preprints
1. Automorphic period and the central value of Rankin-Selberg L-function, submitted
2012, available at ArXiv:1208.6280.
2. On the arithmetic fundamental lemma in the minuscule case (with M. Rapoport,
U.Terstiege), submitted 2012, available at ArXiv:1203.5827.
3. Fourier transform and the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture for unitary groups,
submitted 2011, available at http://www.math.columbia.edu/∼wzhang/.
4. Triple product L-series and Gross–Schoen cycles (with Xinyi Yuan, Shou-Wu
Zhang). preprint.
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Publication
1. W. Zhang. Harmonic analysis for relative trace formula, to appear in Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Automorphic Representations and LFunctions, Mumbai, India.
2. On the smooth transfer conjecture of Jacquet–Rallis for n = 3, to appear in the
Ramanujan Journal, DOI 10.1007/s11139-012-9398-2.
3. The Gross–Zagier formula on Shimura curves (with Xinyi Yuan, Shou-Wu Zhang),
Ann. of Math. Studies #184, ISBN: 9780691155920.
4. On arithmetic fundamental lemmas, Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 188 (2012),
Number 1, 197-252.
5. Gross–Zagier formula and arithmetic fundamental lemma, in Fifth International
Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, edited by Lizhen Ji, Yat Sun Poon, Lo
Yang, and Shing-Tung Yau, AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Volume
51, 2011, pp. 447-460.
6. The Gross-Kohnen-Zagier theorem over totally real fields (with Xinyi Yuan, ShouWu Zhang). Compositio Math. 145 (2009), no. 5, 1147-1162.
Invited speaker
of conferences/seminars.
Plenary speaker, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), Taipei,
July 2013
International Colloquium on “Automorphic Representations and L-Functions”,
TIFR, Mumbai, India, Jan 2012.
Arithmetic geometry, Oberwolfach, Aug 2012.
Arithmetic geometry of orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties,June 3–June. 8,
2012, Banff.
Cycles on modular varieties, October 30–Nov. 4, 2011, Banff.
Invited speaker, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), Beijing, Dec 2010
Pan Aisa Number theory Conference, Kyoto, 2010 Sep 13-17.
Workshop on Cycles and Special Values of L-series, CRM Barcelona, 2009 Dec
14-18.
Midwest Numebr theory day, Wisconsin Madison, Nov 2011.
FRG Conference: Periods of automorphic forms and applications to L-functions,
Columbia University, New York, 9/16-9/18/2011.
Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar. Oct 2011.
Purdue University, April 28, 2011.
Northwestern University, Number theory seminar, April 18, 2011.
MIT, Number theory seminar, Mar 15 2011 .
Number theory summer school, Tsinghua University, 2010 July-Aug
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Number theory seminar, University of Chicago, Apr 2010.
Number theory seminar, University of Toronto, Oct 2009.
Algebra seminar, Brown University, Oct 2009.
Group theory/Lie theory/Number theory seminar, University of Michigan Ann
Arbor, Oct 2009.
Number theory seminar, Princeton University, Oct 2009.
Number theory seminar, Harvard University, Oct 2009.
Number theory seminar, Ohio State University, Sep 2009.
Workshop on period and relative trace formula, AIM, Aug 2009.
Number Theory Seminar. University of Wisconsin, Madison. April 2008.
Workshop on K3’s: Modular Forms, Moduli, and String Theory. Clay Mathematics Institute, March 2008.
Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar. April 2007.
Automorphic Forms and Number Theory Seminar.
March 2007.
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University of Minnesota,