Ben Zhou
                Locy Hall, 200 A/B  Email: byzhou01@math.northwestern.edu  | 
        
            
                  
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                     Research I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University. My advisor is Eric Zaslow. Here is my CV. My research interests are Gromov-Witten Invariants, Mirror Symmetry, Algebraic Geometry, Mathematical Physics. Here's a link to the schedule of the Northwestern Geometry/Physics Seminar.  | 
            
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                     Publications Quantum Theta Functions from Open Mirror Symmetry (joint with Tim Graefnitz, Helge Ruddat, and Eric Zaslow), in progress. Higher genus local Gromov-Witten invariants via degeneration of P1-bundle, in progress.  | 
            
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                     Teaching TA for Math 351-0: Fourier Analysis and Boundary Value Problems, Northwestern University, Fall 2023 TA for Math 240-0: Linear Algebra, Northwestern University, Fall 2023 TA for Math 340-0: Geometry, Northwestern University, Spring 2022 TA for Math 368-0: Introduction to Optimization, Northwestern University, Spring 2022 TA for Math 366-1: Mathematical Models in Finance, Northwestern University, Winter 2022 TA for Math 336-1: Introduction to Theory of Numbers, Northwestern University, Winter 2022 TA for Math 342: Introduction to Differential Geometry, Northwestern University, Fall 2021 TA for Math 320-1: Real Analysis, Northwestern University, Fall 2021 TA for Math 300: Foundations of Higher Mathematics, Northwestern University, Spring 2021 TA for Math 230-2: Multivariable Integral Calculus, Northwestern University, Winter 2021 TA for Math 230-1: Multivariable Differential Calculus, Northwestern University, Fall 2020 TA for Math 230-1: Multivariable Differential Calculus, Northwestern University, Fall 2019 TA for CS 229: Machine Learning, Stanford University, Fall 2016 I am pleased to be nominated the Best Teaching Assistant Award of Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University for the academic year 2021-2022! I express my sincere thanks to my students and teachers. I offer private tutoring in mathematics, computer science, and statistics. I also offer freelance data science services. Please email me if interested.  | 
            
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                     Writings Curve Counting and Modular Forms Collective Coordinates and Kontsevich-Soibelman Wall Crossing Formula Every smooth cubic surface has exactly 27 lines My qualifying exam syllabus and presentation on open Gromov-Witten invariants. Hodge-Theoretic Mirror Symmetry for the Quintic Threefold and Elliptic Curve Cheeger-Gromoll Splitting Theorem Spacetime Geometries - Undergraduate Thesis, written under the supervision of András Vasy  |