Yuzhou Joey Zou (邹雨舟)

Boas Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University

I am a Boas Assistant Professor at Northwestern University working with Jared Wunsch. I am interested in microlocal analysis, inverse problems, and PDE.

I am on the job market for tenure-track positions this year.

Previously (from 2021-2022) I was a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz working with François Monard.

I obtained my Ph.D. in August 2021 from Stanford University under the supervision of András Vasy.

Here is my CV.

Email me at: yuzhou.zou northwestern edu (insert punctuation as needed)

Teaching

I have no teaching duties in Fall 2024.

Previous teaching

Papers

1. Asymptotic Expansion of the Eigenvalues of a Bathtub Potential with Quadratic Ends.

   Preprint, 2024.

2. The hyperbolic X-ray transform: new range characterizations, mapping properties and functional relations, joint with Nikolas Eptaminitakis and François Monard.

   Preprint, 2024.

3. Helmholtz quasi-resonances are unstable under most single-signed perturbations of the wave speed, joint with Euan A. Spence and Jared Wunsch.

   Preprint, 2024.

4. The Morse index theorem for mechanical systems with reflections, joint with Jared Wunsch and Mengxuan Yang.

   Nonlinearity, Vol. 37, no. 8. 2024. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6544/ad5636.

5. Boundary triples for a family of degenerate elliptic operators of Keldysh type, joint with François Monard.

   Pure and Applied Analysis, Vol. 6, no. 2, 541-580. 2024. DOI: 10.2140/paa.2024.6.541.

6. The C^∞-isomorphism property for a class of singularly-weighted X-ray transforms, joint with Rohit Kumar Mishra and François Monard.

   Inverse Problems, Vol. 39, no. 2. 2023. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/aca8cb.

7. Microlocal Methods for The Elastic Travel Time Tomography Problem for Transversely Isotropic Media.

   Submitted for publication, 2021.

8. Streak artifacts from non-convex metal objects in X-ray tomography, joint with Yiran Wang.

   Pure and Applied Analysis, Vol. 3, no. 2, 295-318. 2021. DOI: 10.2140/paa.2021.3.295.

9. Partial Global Recovery in the Elastic Travel Time Tomography Problem for Transversely Isotropic Media.

   Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Vol. 74, no. 5, 2077-2139. 2024. DOI:10.5802/aif.3617.

Upcoming conferences/workshops/travel

• 2024 Fall Western Sectional Meeting, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, October 26-27, 2024.
• Inverse Problems Seminar, UC Irvine, October 28, 2024.
• Baby Inverse Problems Seminar (BIPS), October 29, 2024.
• Harmonic and Microlocal Analysis in Partial Differential Equations, MATRIX Institute, Parkville, Australia, December 16-20, 2024.

Recently attended conferences/workshops

• "Triangle Area Inverse Problems Weekend", NC State University, Raleigh, NC, October, 2024.
• "Summer School: Geometric Inverse Problems and Inverse Problems for Elliptic Equations", UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, August, 2024.
• "NU Trends in Ergodic Theory", Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, July, 2024.
• "Microlocal Analysis and Quantum Dynamics" summer school and conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June, 2024. (co-organized)
• "Great Lakes Mathematical Physics Meeting", Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, June, 2024.
• "SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS24)", Atlanta, GA, May, 2024.
• "From Microlocal to Global Analysis @ MIT", MIT, Boston, MA, May, 2024.
• "Ohio River Analysis Meeting (ORAM 13)", University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March, 2024.
• "Texas Analysis and Mathematical Physics Symposium", Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February, 2024.
• "Spectral and Resonance Problems for Imaging, Seismology, and Materials Science", Reims, France, November, 2023.
• "Mentoring in the Mathematical Sciences", Rice University, Houston, TX, November, 2023.
• "Spectral Theory and Applications", Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October, 2023.
• "Applied Inverse Problems Conference", Göttingen, Germany, September 2023.
• "Workshop on Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging", University of Chicago, IL, August 2023.
• "Inverse Problems and Nonlinearity", Banff International Research Station, Canada, July 2023.
• Session on "Inverse Problems and Imaging", The AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Wilmington, NC. Jun 2023.
• "May Midwestern Microlocal Meeting", Northwestern University, IL. May 2023.
• "TEACHx 2023", Northwestern University, IL. May 2023.
• "At the Interface between Semiclassical Analysis and Numerical Analysis of Wave Scattering Problems", MFO, Oberwolfach, Germany. Sep 2022.
• "Geometric Applications of Microlocal Analysis", Stanford University, CA. Sept. 2022

Links

• MSRI Program in Microlocal Analysis - occurred during Fall 2019.
• UChicago Math REU - a good opportunity to learn more math over the summer as an undergrad. I participated in 2014 and 2015.
• International Mathematics Competition—competition math for college students!
• Nonograms—a discrete tomography problem in puzzle form.
• Some sports I follow. In the photo above is a shirt for a sport I play (not too well).