Zhe Xu

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon. My advisor is Nick Addington. My research interests lie in algebraic geometry. Currently, I am working on the integral Hodge conjecture on quartic fourfolds, and I am also interested in enumerative geometry.

Previously, I was a member of the NTAG research group at Simon Fraser University; my advisor was Nils Bruin.

Here is my CV.

Talks

Klyachko's classification on toric vector bundles
University of Oregon, Student Geometry Seminar, Jan 22, 2025
On the local behaviour of symmetric differentials at the blow-up of du Val singularities
Simon Fraser University, NTAG Seminar, October 13, 2022
On the local behaviour of symmetric differentials at the blow-up of du Val singularities
Zoom, Escuela de Álgebra Amarun, October 4, 2022

Publications and Preprints

Nils Bruin, Nathan Ilten, Zhe Xu, “Local Euler characteristics of An-singularities and their application to hyperbolicity,” Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique, Volume 9, Article no. 2 (2025). ArXiv preprint arXiv:2312.01722.

Teaching

University of Oregon

  • Teaching assistant, Stats 241Z: Elementary Statistics (Fall 2025)
  • Instructor, MATH 341: Linear Algebra I (Summer 2025)
  • Instructor, MATH 111Z: Precalculus II (Spring 2025)
  • Instructor, MATH 111Z: Precalculus II (Winter 2025)
  • Teaching assistant, MATH 241: Calculus for Business and Social Science I (Fall 2024)
  • Instructor, MATH 251: Calculus I (Summer 2024)
  • Instructor, MATH 251: Calculus I (Spring 2024)
  • Instructor, MATH 111Z: Precalculus I (Winter 2024)
  • Teaching assistant, MATH 111Z: Precalculus I (Fall 2023)

Simon Fraser University

  • Teaching assistant, MATH 341 Algebra III: Groups (Spring 2023)
  • Teaching assistant, Applied Calculus Workshop (Spring 2023)
  • Teaching assistant, Algebra Workshop (Fall 2022)
  • Teaching assistant, Algebra Workshop (Spring 2022)