Botong Wang

Botong Wang

  Associate Professor
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Email: wang at math.wisc.edu
  Office: Van Vleck Hall 403

Vita

Education

  B.S, Peking University, 2002-2006

  Ph.D, Purdue University, 2006-2012

Positions

  Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021-now

  Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017-2021

  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2016-2017

  Postdoc, KU Leuven, Fall 2015

  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, 2012-2015


Teaching

  I am on sabbatical leave at BICMR this year.

Here are the previous courses I have taught at Madison.

Research

I am interested in the topology of algebraic varieties, and its interaction with combinatorics and algebraic statistics. I am currently interested in the following topics.
  • Hodge theory for matroids
  • The topological aspects of algebraic optimization problems
  • Singer-Hopf conjectures, topological generic vanishing theorems, and the relations to hyperbolicity


    Seminars and Conferences


    Preprints and Publications


    Lecture notes