Weimin Chen

Ph.D. Michigan State University , 1998

M.S. Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1989

B.S. Shandong University, China, 1986

Differential Geometry and Topology

• Symplectic rational G-surfaces and equivariant symplectic cones (with Tian-Jun Li and Weiwei Wu), Journal of Differential Geometry 119 no. 2 (2021), 221-260.
• A characterization of the standard smooth structure of K3 surface, Proceedings of A.M.S. 148 no. 6 (2020), 2707-2716.
• Fixed-point free circle actions on 4-manifolds,  Algebraic and Geometric Topology 15 (2015), 3253-3303.
• G-minimality and invariant negative spheres in G-Hirzebruch surfaces,  Journal of Topology 8 (2015), 621-650.
• Hurwitz-type bound, knot surgery, and smooth S^1-four-manifolds, Mathematische Zeitschrift 276 (2014), 267-279.
• Symmetric symplectic homotopy K3 surfaces (with Slawomir Kwasik), Journal of Topology 4 (2011), 406-430.
• On the orders of periodic diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds, Duke Mathematical Journal 156 no. 2 (2011), 273-310.
• Symmetries and exotic smooth structures on a K3 surface (with Slawomir Kwasik), Journal of Topology 1 (2008), 923-962.
• Symplectic symmetries of 4-manifolds (with Slawomir Kwasik), Topology 46 no.2 (2007), 103-128.
• Smooth s-cobordisms of elliptic 3-manifolds, Journal of Differential Geometry 73 no.3 (2006), 413-490.
• Orbifold adjunction formula and symplectic cobordisms between lens spaces, Geometry and Topology 8 (2004), 701-734.
• A new cohomology theory of orbifolds (with Yongbin Ruan), Communications in Mathematical Physics 248 no.1 (2004), 1-31.
• Pseudo-holomorphic curves and the Weinstein conjecture, Communications in Analysis and Geometry 8 no.1 (2000), 115-131.
• Casson's invariant and Seiberg-Witten gauge theory, Turkish Journal of Mathematics 21 no.1 (1997), 61-81.