General



Xinan Zhou

Assitant Professor


Email: xinan.zhou@ucas.ac.cn

Education

PhD 2018, Stony Brook University

Experience

2018-2021: Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University               PCTS and Sam B. Treiman Postdoctoral Fellow

2021-now: Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences      Tenure-track Assistant Professor

Publications

My publication can be found here on INSPIRE.

Research Interests

Conformal Field Theory, AdS/CFT, scattering amplitudes

Honors & Distinctions

I am the recipient of the 2023 ICTP Prize awarded by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.

Students and Postdocs Hiring

Students: I take Master and PhD students every year. However, interested students should first contact me before applying (before February in the year of application). The applicants are expected to have a solid foundation in core courses (Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, complex analysis, special functions) and some exposure to Quantum Field Theory would also be good.


Postdocs: Young researchers who want to work with me as a Kavli ITS Postdoctoral Fellow can contact me directly by email and should apply through the Kavli ITS job ad on AJO. 


https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28596

Organized activities

Workshops and conferences:

1. Large N Theories and Strings: Conformal, Confining, and Holographic, Feb. 2020, Princeton University.

2. Boundaries and Defects in CFT and Holography, Mar. 2022, Princeton University.

3. Quantum Gravity and Cosmology 2024. Jul. 2024, ShanghaiTech University.

4. Exact methods in quantum field theory and string theory, Oct. 2024, Southeast University.

5. Artificial Intelligence for Theoretical Sciences, Nov. 2024, Kavli ITS.



          


Summer and winter schools:

1. KITS-ShanghaiTech Summer School, Aug. 2023, ShanghaiTech University.

2. The 18th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology (course organizer), Dec. 2023, Kyoto University.

3. Kavli ITS Summer School, Jul. 2024, Kavli ITS.