Hao Zou

Bio

Hao Zou is an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS). Before joining SIMIS, he served as a joint Postdoc at Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC) of Tsinghua University and Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA). He obtained his Ph.D in physics at Virginia Tech in 2021.

Professor Zou’s current research interests mainly foucs on supersymmetric theories and other related interdisciplinary topics in theoretical physics and mathematical physics.

Education Experience

2016-2021    Virginia Tech    Physics    PhD

Work Experience

2024-            Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS)    Assistant Professor

2021-2024    Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC), Tsinghua University    Postdoc

2021-2024    Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA)    Postdoc

Honors and Awards

• Virginia Tech Graduate School Doctoral Assistantship (2020)

Publications (preprints)

1. J. Guo, B. Lin and H. Zou, “A GLSM realization of derived equivalence in U(1) × U(2) models,” arXiv:2312.05740 [hep-th].
2. W. Gu, L. Mihalcea, E. Sharpe, W. Xu, H. Zhang and H. Zou, “Quantum K Whitney relations for partial flag varieties,” arXiv:2310.03826 [math.AG].
3. W. Gu, L. Mihalcea, E. Sharpe, W. Xu, H. Zhang and H. Zou, “Quantum K theory rings of partial flag manifolds,” arXiv:2306.11094 [hep-th].
4. W. Gu, L. C. Mihalcea, E. Sharpe and H. Zou, “Quantum K theory of Grassmannians, Wilson line operators, and Schur bundles,” arXiv:2208.01091 [math.AG].

Publications (published)

1. H. Shu, P. Zhao, R. D. Zhu and H. Zou, “Bethe-State Counting and the Witten Index,” SciPost Phys. 15, 103 (2023).
2. P. Zhao and H. Zou, “Remarks on 2d unframed quiver gauge theories,” JHEP 05, 121 (2023).
3. C. M. Chang, W. Cui, W. J. Ma, H. Shu and H. Zou, “Shadow celestial amplitudes,” JHEP 02, 017 (2023).
4. X. Gao and H. Zou, “Applying machine learning to the Calabi-Yau orientifolds with string vacua,” Phys. Rev. D 105, no.4, 046017 (2022), arXiv:2112.04950 [hep-th].
5. J. Guo and H. Zou, “Quantum cohomology of symplectic flag manifolds,” J. Phys. A 55, no.27, 275401 (2022).
6. W. Gu, L. Mihalcea, E. Sharpe and H. Zou, “Quantum K theory of symplectic Grassmannians,” J. Geom. Phys. 177, 104548 (2022)
7. W. Gu, E. Sharpe and H. Zou, “Notes on two-dimensional pure supersymmetric gauge theories,” JHEP 04, 261 (2021).
8. W. Gu, E. Sharpe and H. Zou, “GLSMs for exotic Grassmannians,” JHEP 10, 200 (2020).
9. W. Gu and H. Zou, “Supersymmetric Localization in GLSMs for Supermanifolds,” JHEP 05 (2019), 019.
10. H. Parsian, E. Sharpe and H. Zou, “(0,2) versions of exotic (2,2) GLSMs,” Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 33 (2018) no.18n19, 1850113.
11. H. Zou and F. Z. Yang, “Effective superpotentials of Type II D-brane/F-theory on compact complete intersection Calabi–Yau threefolds,” Mod. Phys. Lett. A 31 (2016) no.15, 1650094.