Botong Wang

Botong Wang

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

Botong Wang at IAS
Photo credit: Andrea Kane, Institute for Advanced Study

Vita

Education

  B.S, Peking University, 2002-2006

  Ph.D, Purdue University, 2006-2012

Positions

  Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025-now

  Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021-2025

  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 will be teaching MATH 467, Introduction to Number Theory this semester. Information about the course can be found on the Canvas page.

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 applied mathematics.


Seminars and Conferences


Preprints and Publications


Lecture notes


Students