Recently, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mathematics Center associate researcher Hao (read huán) really wrote an independent article that was accepted by Acta Mathematica, a top journal in the field of mathematics, which attracted great attention in the academic community. Her painstaking scientific research process, coupled with her name written "Zhen Huan" in English, also made many netizens call her "Zhen Huan in mathematics" with full respect. Hao Zhen himself said on social platforms that "mathematicians face a world like a fairy tale, and others don't know what we're doing."
On October 8, the School of Mathematics and Statistics of Huazhong University of Science and Technology released news congratulating the article "Representations of Lie 2-groups and 2-Vector Bundles" by Zhen Xuan, an associate researcher of the school, on being accepted by the top journal Acta Mathematica. The Mathematics Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology issued an announcement on the same day, saying that this achievement is "a significant progress in the research of the Mathematics Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology". Since Acta Mathematica is recognized as one of the most authoritative and rigorous mathematics journals in the international academic community, there are only a few articles that can be included in the journal Chinese mainland for decades, and most of them are collective research results, and 6 authors have been elected academicians. The research completed independently by Hao Zhen can be "certified" by the journal and quickly attracted attention in the academic community.
Hao Zhen himself also expressed his thoughts on social platforms: "In fact, I think that a mathematician faces a world like in the fairy tales of Wilde and Hans Christian Andersen, cruel, worldly, with no empathy with you in the real world and the protagonist who always harbors fairytale dreams, and because they are incompatible with reality, the ending is often tragic, and other people in this world don't actually know what we are doing and how much we have paid, and from their point of view, we are more or less strange people." ”
According to Xuan Zhen's academic homepage, she received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Peking University in 2006, with a bachelor's thesis on Morse theory and Bot's periodicity theorem in topology, and then went to the United States for further study, and obtained a master's degree in mathematics from Indiana University Bloomington in 2009. During this time, her research interests turned to algebraic topology (the mathematical branch that uses abstract algebraic tools to study topological spaces), and in 2010 she moved to the more prominent University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 2017. In her resume, Xuan Zhen noted: "The title of my doctoral dissertation is quasi-elliptic homology, and the thesis is 290 pages long. After the defense, I revised it for another year to make it more readable and superior. ”
After returning to China, Zhen worked as a research associate (assistant researcher) at Sun Yat-sen University from 2017 to 2019, and transferred to the Mathematics Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology as an associate professor in June 2019. During her tenure at CUHK, she gave academic reports on quasi-elliptic homogeneity and global homotopy.
At the end of June 2021, she gave an academic report entitled "2-Representations of Lie 2-Groups and 2-Vector Bundles" at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in which she introduced that she constructed a new 2-vector bundle model based on higher category theory and tried to construct a closer connection with elliptic cohomology and quantum field theory. The following month, the Mathematics Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology announced its inclusion in the "recent research results". A year later, the research results of the same title were accepted by Acta Mathematica (the content of the paper has not yet been officially published).
On October 13, a reporter from Nandu verified from the School of Mathematics and Statistics of Huazhong University of Science and Technology that Xu Zhen was an associate researcher of the academy. The Mathematics Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology included her in the "professor" column to distinguish her from another type of "co-professor", indicating that she worked full-time and not an academic title in the usual sense. The teacher of the institute told reporters in Nandu that in addition to scientific research, Xuan Zhen also undertakes teaching work and teaches undergraduate and graduate students on a daily basis.
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(Synthesized from Southern Metropolis Daily, surging news reporter Zheng Chaoyuan, netizen comments)
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