Career • 2022.7--present, Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University • 2021.1--2022.7, Postdoc, Michigan State University • 2019.7--2020.12, Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Mathmatics • 2016.8--2019.5, Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University Education • 2010.8--2016.6, Ph. D in Mathematics, The Ohio State Univesity • 2006.9--2010.6, B.S. in Mathematics, Zhejiang University Research Interest I have broad interests in the areas of differential geometry, geometric topology, geometric group theory and dynamical systems. I am particularly interested in Gromov norm (simplicial volume) and bounded cohomology of non-positively curved spaces. More recently, I study the discrete isometry subgroups (typically infinite volume) of Hadamard manifolds, especially on how the critical exponent interacts with the geometry and topology of the quotient manifold. Selected Publications 1) Barycentric straightening and bounded cohomology (with Jean-François Lafont) J. Eur. Math. Soc. 21 (2019), pgs. 381-403.
2) On splitting rank of non-compact type symmetric spaces and bounded cohomology. J. Topol. Anal. 12 (2020), pgs. 465-489.
3) Positivity of simplicial volume for nonpositively curved manifolds with a Ricci-type curvature condition (with Chris Connell). Groups Geom. Dyn. 13 (2019), pgs. 1007-1034.
4) Some remarks on the simplicial volume of nonpositively curved manifolds (with Chris Connell). Math. Ann. 377 (2020), pgs. 969-987.
5) Homological norms on nonpositively curved manifolds (with Chris Connell). Submitted. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00124
6) Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem for groups (with Thang Nguyen). Algebr. Geom. Topol. to appear.
7) Discrete subgroups of small critical exponent (with Beibei Liu). Geom. Topol. to appear.
8) Geometric cycles and bounded cohomology for a cocompact lattice in SLn(R). Math. Z. 301 (2022), pgs. 3109-3125.
9) Positivity of simplicial volume via barycentric techniques. (in Proceedings of the International Young Seminars on Bounded Cohomology and Simplicial Volume, ed. C. Campagnolo, F. Fournier-Facio, N. Heuer and M. Moraschini). LMS Lecture Notes, to appear.
10) Cusps, Kleinian groups and Eisenstein series (with Beibei Liu). Submitted. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01131
11) An L1-norm-mass inequality for complete manifolds (with Caterina Campagnolo). Submitted. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04131 12) Marked length spectrum rigidity for relatively hyperbolic groups (with Thang Nguyen). Submitted. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05296
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Email wangshi@shanghaitech.edu.cn Office: S421, School of Creativity & Arts
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