Xuemiao Chen
陈学渺
Assistant Professor
Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Office: MC 5324
Email: x67chen at uwaterloo dot ca
Research
My research lies at the interface of complex algebraic and differential geometry, gauge theory, and geometric analysis. I am particularly interested in Hermitian–Yang–Mills connections, moduli spaces, singularities, and degenerations of sheaves and bundles.
I am a member of the Geometry and Topology group at the University of Waterloo.
Papers and Preprints
-
Bubbling of rank two bundles over surfaces
Preprint, 2025.
arXiv -
Admissible Hermitian–Yang–Mills connections over normal varieties
Math. Ann. (2025) arXiv -
On Vafa–Witten equations over Kähler manifolds
J. Reine Angew. Math. (2024) arXiv -
Nonabelian Hodge correspondence for balanced Hermitian metrics of Hodge–Riemann type
Math. Res. Lett. (2024) arXiv -
A Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem for normal varieties and semistable bundles on degenerating families
Math. Ann. (2023) arXiv -
Compactness for Ω-Yang–Mills connections
Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations (2022) arXiv -
Reflexive sheaves, Hermitian–Yang–Mills connections, and tangent cones
Invent. Math. (2021) arXiv -
Analytic tangent cones of admissible Hermitian–Yang–Mills connections
Geometry & Topology (2021) arXiv -
Singularities of Hermitian–Yang–Mills connections and the Harder–Narasimhan–Seshadri filtration
Duke Math. J. (2020) arXiv -
Algebraic tangent cones of reflexive sheaves
Int. Math. Res. Not. (2018) arXiv
Teaching and Supervision
Spring 2026
PMATH 340: Elementary Number Theory
MWF 10:30–11:20 am, MC 1056
Office hour: Friday 1:00–2:00 pm, MC 5324
Graduate Supervision
I am currently accepting graduate students. Prospective students are welcome to contact me by email.
Seminars and Events
Seminars
- University of Waterloo Geometry and Topology Seminar
- University of Waterloo Differential Geometry Working Seminar
- Fields Institute Geometric Analysis Colloquium
Upcoming Talks and Events
- Invited talk, Rutgers Gauge Theory, Low-Dimensional Topology, and Geometric Analysis Conference 2026, ICM 2026 Satellite Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, July 13–17, 2026.
- Weeklong Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin–Madison, October 12–17, 2026.
- Co-organizer, New Developments in Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Gauge Theory, IASM-BIRS Workshop, Hangzhou, China, May 30–June 4, 2027.