Peng Zhou

Peng Zhou

Research Interests

Homological Mirror Symmetry, Geometric Representation Theory, Fukaya category

Positions

2022.7-present, postdoc at UC Berkeley. Mentor: Mina Aganagic
2019.8-2022.6, Morrey Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Mentor: Vivek Shende
2017.9-2019.8, postdoc at IHES. Mentor: Maxim Kontsevich.

Education

2012-2017, Northwestern Univeristy
- Ph.D. Mathematics. Advisor: Eric Zaslow
- Thesis: From Fukaya-Seidel Category to Constructible Sheaves

2006-2012, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ph.D. Physics (cosmology). Advisor: Daniel Chung
- Thesis: Gravitational Fermion Production during Inflation.

2002-2006, Peking University
- B.S., Physics major, Math minor

Publication

Homological Mirror Symmetry

Twisted polytope sheaves and coherent–constructible correspondence for toric varieties. Selecta Mathematica, 25(1):1–23, 2019
Lagrangian skeleta of hypersurfaces in $(\C^*)^n$. Selecta Mathematica, 26(2):1–33, 2020
Sheaf quantization of Legendrian isotopy. (accepted by Compositio of Math) 2018
Variation of GIT and variation of Lagrangian skeletons II: Quasi-symmetric case. (with Jesse Huang) Advances in Mathematics, Volume 408, Part A, 2022, 108597

preprints

GKZ discriminant and Multiplicities. (with Jesse Huang) arXiv:2206.14778, 2022
Gamma II for toric varieties from integrals on T-dual branes and homological mirror symmetry. arXiv:1903.05300, 2019
Variation of GIT and variation of Lagrangian skeletons I: flip and flop. arXiv:2011.03719, 2020

Microlocal Analysis

Interface asymptotics of partial Bergman kernels on S1-symmetric K ̈ahler manifolds (with Steve Zelditch) Journal of Symplectic Geometry, 17(3):793–856, 2019
Central limit theorem for spectral partial Bergman kernels. (with Steve Zelditch) Geometry & Topology, 23(4):1961–2004, 2019
Central limit theorem for toric Kahler manifolds. (with Steve Zelditch) Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, 17(3):843–864, 2021
Interface asymptotics of Partial Bergman kernels around a critical level. (with Steve Zelditch) Arkiv for Matematik, 57(2):471–492, 2019
Pointwise Weyl law for partial Bergman kernels. (with Steve Zelditch) In Algebraic and analytic microlocal analysis, pages 589–634. Springer, 2018
Nodal sets of random eigenfunctions for the isotropic harmonic oscillator. (with Boris Hanin, Steve Zelditch) International Mathematics Research Notices, 2015(13):4813–4839, 2015
Scaling of harmonic oscillator eigenfunctions and their nodal sets around the caustic. (with Boris Hanin, Steve Zelditch) Communications in Mathematical Physics, 350(3):1147–1183, 2017

Log D-modules and applications

Log D-modules and index theorems. (with Lei Wu) In Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, volume 9. Cambridge University Press, 2021
Zero loci of Bernstein–Sato ideals. (with Nero Budur, Robin van der Veer, Lei Wu) Inventiones mathematicae, 225(1):45–72, 2021
Zero loci of Bernstein-Sato ideals-II. (with Nero Budur, Robin van der Veer, Lei Wu) Selecta Mathematica, 27(3):1–30, 2021

Invited Talks

Nov 05, 2025, University of Arizona, Mathematical Physics and Probability seminar: Cutting-and-gluing in categorified representation theory
Mar 11, 2025, UC Berkeley, Representation Theory and Tensor Categories Seminar: Cutting–gluing in Heegaard–Floer theory with coefficients
Jan 23, 2025, Boston College, Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Cutting–gluing in Heegaard–Floer theory with coefficients
Jan 21, 2025, Boston University, Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Cutting–gluing in Heegaard–Floer theory
Jan 13, 2025, Stanford University, Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Cutting–gluing in Heegaard–Floer theory with coefficients
Oct 25, 2024, Columbia University, Enumerative Geometry Seminar: Fukaya categories and KLRW algebras
Feb 21, 2024, Northwestern University: KLRW algebra from Floer theory
Feb 7, 2024, UC Davis: Homological Mirror Symmetry for cluster varieties of type A_n
May 30, 2023, University of Oregon: KLRW algebra from Floer theory
Sep 23, 2022, MSRI, Approaches to Khovanov Homology Reading Group: Homological Mirror Symmetry for 3d Coulomb branches and cKLRW algebra
Aug 29, 2022, UC Berkeley, Informal String–Math Seminar: Homological Mirror Symmetry for 3d Coulomb branches and skein–strand diagrams
Apr 6, 2022, UC Davis, Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Variation of GIT quotients and variation of Lagrangian skeleta
Jan 31, 2022, Columbia University, Enumerative Geometry Seminar: Variation of GIT quotients and variation of Lagrangian skeleta
Sep 28, 2021, Michigan State University, Geometry and Topology Seminar: Homological Mirror Symmetry for A_n-type cluster varieties
Mar 18, 2021, Boston College, Number Theory / Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Variation of GIT and variation of Lagrangian skeleta
Feb 26, 2021, UC Santa Barbara, Seminar on Geometry and Arithmetic: Derived equivalences from variation of Lagrangian skeleta
Apr 23, 2020, Kansas State University, M-Seminar: Variation of toric GIT quotients and variation of Lagrangian skeleta
Mar 2, 2020, UC Berkeley, Informal String–Math Seminar: Variation of toric GIT quotients and variation of Lagrangian skeleta
May 17, 2019, Université de Lyon I: Interpolating Lagrangian skeleta and variation of GIT
May 2, 2019, King’s College London & University College London, Geometry Seminar: Interpolating Lagrangian skeleta and variation of GIT
May 4, 2018, Groupe de travail sur la topologie symplectique (Paris Region): Lagrangian skeleta of affine hypersurfaces in (C*)^n
Apr 18, 2018, Algebra Seminar, Universität Münster: Deformation of constructible sheaves and the coherent–constructible correspondence
Mar 12, 2018, Séminaire Problèmes Spectraux en Physique Mathématique (Paris): Zero sets of eigenfunctions for harmonic oscillators
Feb 20, 2018, Analysis and Geometry Seminar, Paris VI: Interface of partial Bergman kernels
Apr 27, 2016, Kansas State University, Mirror Symmetry Seminar: Combinatorial Lefschetz thimbles and circuit transitions
Jan 9, 2016, AMS Seattle Regional Meeting: Nodal sets of harmonic oscillators near caustics

Journals Refereed

Advances in Mathematics
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Tunisian Journal of Mathematics
Pure and Applied Math Quarterly
Journal of Differential Geometry
Journal of Topology
Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Teaching Experience

As an instructor in UC Berkeley

Introduction to Real Analysis (Math 104)
Mathematical Tools in Physical Science (Math 121A, 121B)
Introduction to Complex Analysis (Math 185)
Introduction to Differential Geometry (Math 214)
Linear Algebra (Math 54)

As a TA in Northwestern University

(Graduate) Real Analysis
(Graduate) Probability
Probability and stochastic process,
Dynamical System
Linear Algebra
Linear Optimization

Directed Reading Projects

I advised a few undergrads reading projects in UC Berkeley.

2022 Fall: Cohomology of Flag varieties
2022 Summer: Differentiable Manifold
2022 Spring: Introduction to Group and Representation theory
2021 Summer: Random Matrix Theory.
2021 Summer: Differentiable Manifold.

Awards

2017 Best Thesis Award. By Northwestern Mathematics Department.
2015-16 Gelfand Award (for contribution to the math department). By Northwestern Mathematics

Department.

2015-16 Mathematics Department Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.
2013-14 Department Nomination for Presidential Fellowship

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