Students
Requirement to students
To be my Ph.D. student, one has to finish the graduate course "Birational Geometry" by A/A- grade, and pass the oral qualify exam.
Current students
- Yang Liu, Ph.D. student, 2023.9 -
- Ziqi Liu, Ph.D. student, 2022.9 -
- Tianqi Zhang, Ph.D. student, 2022.9 -
- Zhixiu Fan, Ph.D. student, 2023.9 -
Former students
- Puyang Yu, Ph.D., 2021.9 - 2025.6; now Postdoc at Xiamen University
Some personal advices on doing Ph.D. in birational geometry and related subjects
In many senses I agree with Yongqi Liang's opinions, you can read his webpage. For beginners in algebraic geometry, you can follow Xinyi Yuan's suggestion. The followings are some personal advices based on my own experience.
- Things one should learn in undergraduate:
- Some basic commutative algebra (e.g. Introduction to Commutative Algebra by Atiyah-Macdonald)
- Some basic algebraic geometry (e.g. Chapter I-III of Algebraic Geometry by Hartshorne)
- Some basic curve and surface theory (e.g. Chapter IV-V of Algebraic Geometry by Hartshorne, or Complex Algebraic Surfaces by Beauville)
- Things one should learn in first 1-2 years in graduate school:
- Some basic birational geometry (e.g. Positivity in Algebraic Geometry I&II by Lazarsfeld, Chapter II&III&V of Birational geometry of algebraic varieties by Kollár-Mori)
- Some advanced birational geometry (e.g. BCHM)
- Things one should do in graduate school and later:
- Find problem(s) you are interested
- Solve the problem(s) you find
- Get a Ph.D.
- Try hard to survive
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