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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., & 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., 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
Bell, R., Booher, J., Chen, W. Y., & Liu, Y. (2022). Tamely ramified covers of the projective line with alternating and symmetric monodromy. Algebra and Number Theory, 16(2), 393-446. https://doi.org/10.2140/ant.2022.16.393
Chen, W. Y. (2018). Moduli interpretations for noncongruence modular curves. Mathematische Annalen, 371(1-2), 41-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-017-1575-6