Prof. Zhongtao WU

Associate Professor
BSc (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
PhD (Princeton University)


Prof. Zhongtao WU
Address:
Room 216, Lady Shaw Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

Tel:
(852) 3943 8578



Fields of Interest:
Knot Theory and its Invariants, 3-manifolds and Dehn Surgery, Contact 3-manifolds, Smooth and Symplectic 4-manifolds, and Heegaard Floer Homology and other Gauge Theoretic or Holomorphic Curve Invariants

Selected Publications:
  1. Cosmetic surgery in L-space homology spheres. Geom. Topol. 15 (2011), 1157-1168.
  2. On mapping cones of Seifert fibered surgeries. J. Topol. 5 (2012), 366-376.
  3. (with Y. Ni), Heegaard Floer correction terms and rational genus bounds. Adv. Math. 267 (2014), 360-380.
  4. (with Y. Ni), Cosmetic surgeries on knots in S^3. available at arXiv: 1009.4720, to appear in J. Reine Angew. Math.

Major Research Grants:
  • Research Grants Council - General Research Fund

Honours and Awards:
  • Distinguished Paper Award, International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians Best Paper Award

Courses

Course Code Course Title Academic Year Term
MATH5070 Topology of Manifolds 2022/23 1
MATH2040B Linear Algebra II 2022/23 2