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Research Areas
Research Interests
Moduli of elliptic curves, noncongruence subgroups of SL(2,Z), Hurwitz spaces, Galois theory, combinatorial group theory
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Recent Publications
Chen, W. Y., Lubotzky, A., & Tiep, P. H. (2026). Finite simple characteristic quotients of the free group of rank 2. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 101(2), 305-344. https://doi.org/10.4171/CMH/600
Chen, W. Y., & Salter, N. (2025). FAMILIES OF ELLIPTIC CURVES OVER THE FOUR-POINTED CONFIGURATION SPACE AND EXCEPTIONAL SEQUENCES FOR THE BRAID GROUP ON FOUR STRANDS. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 153(8), 3253-3262. https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/17221
Chen, W. Y., Lubotzky, A., & Tiep, P. H. (2025). Non-congruence presentations of finite simple groups. Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico dell 'Universita' di Padova/Mathematical Journal of the University of Padova, 36(3), 445-483. https://doi.org/10.4171/RLM/1078
Chen, W., Kontorovich, A., & Sikander, S. (2025). Remarks on the Z/p Dijkgraaf-Witten Invariants of 3D Mapping Tori. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 406(5), Article 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-025-05279-5
Chen, W. Y. (2024). Nonabelian level structures, Nielsen equivalence, and Markoff triples. Annals of Mathematics, 199(1), 301-443. https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2024.199.1.5