Xujia Chen

陈 旭佳 (pronounciation)   An approxiamate English pronounciation of my first name is "soo-ja".

(she/her or they/them)


email: xujiachen AT math.harvard.edu (replace "AT" with "@")


From 2021 to 2024, I am a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows; I am mentored by Professor Peter Kronheimer. I received PhD from Stony Brook University in 2021; my thesis advisor is Professor Aleksey Zinger.

My research area is geometry and topology, which is also related to mathematical physics. My previous works are mostly in real and open Gromov-Witten theory, while I also recently got interested in configuration space integrals.


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List of publications and preprints:

Kontsevich's characteristic classes as topological invariants of configuration space bundles

The cohomology ring of the Deligne-Mumford moduli space of real rational curves with conjugate marked points, joint with Penka Georgieva and Aleksey Zinger

Blowdowns of the Deligne-Mumford spaces of real rational curves, joint with Aleksey Zinger

Spin/Pin-structures and real enumerative geometry, joint with Aleksey Zinger, (largely expository) book, to be published by World Scientific

Solomon-Tukachinsky's vs. Welschinger's open Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic sixfolds, IMRN [talk slides]

A geometric depiction of Solomon-Tukachinsky's construction of open GW-invariants, Peking Mathematical Journal

WDVV-type relations for Welschinger’s invariants: applications, joint with Aleksey Zinger, Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

WDVV-type relations for disk Gromov-Witten invariants in dimension 6, joint with Aleksey Zinger, Mathematische Annalen

Steenrod pseudocycles, lifted cobordisms, and Solomon's relations for Welschinger invariants, Geometric and Functional Analysis [talk slides]


Last updated: January 2024