Members
  • Lei Chen (陈蕾)

    Email: chenlei@amss.ac.cn
    Office: MCM Building(晨兴楼) 606
    Research interest: Geometric topology and geometric group theory

Morningside Center of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
Address: Morningside Center of Mathematics, No.55, Zhongguancun East Road, Beijing, 100190, China 
Research Interest: Geometric topology and geometric group theory

 
Papers and preprints
1. Feb. 2023 27. (with Justin Lanier) Normal generators of Torelli groups, submitted, https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11673
2. Jan. 2023 26. Circle action of the punctured mapping class group and cross homomorphism, submitted, https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06247
3. Jan. 2023 25. (with Bena Tshishiku) Mapping class groups of circle bundles over a surface, submitted, https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05375
4. Jan. 2023 24. (with Nick Salter) Holomorphic maps between configuration spaces, submitted, https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08333
5. Mar. 2022 23. (with Bena Tshishiku) Nielsen realization for sphere twists on 3-manifolds, to appear Israel Mathematics, https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04820
6. Nov. 2021 22. (with Justin Lanier) Constraining mapping class group homomorphisms using finite subgroups, submitted, https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07843

Education
1. B.S.   Peking University, 2009-2013

2. Ph.D.  University of Chicago, 2013-2018, Thesis Advisor: Benson Farb

 

Employment
1. August 2018-July 2021, Postdoc, Caltech
2. August 2021-August 2024, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
3. September 2024-present, Associate Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science