Tao Chen

Tao Chen (陈涛 in Chinese)     

Professor of Mathematics                                                                                                                                                                              

The Graduate Center (Doctoral Faculty) / LaGuardia Community College                                                                         

City University of New York

Email:  tchen1@gc.cuny.edu  or tchen@lagcc.cuny.edu

Academic Employment: 

• Fall 2021-Present,  Professor (Doctoral Faculty),  Graduate Center, CUNY

• Fall 2021-Present,  Professor, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

• Fall 2017-Spring 2021,  Associate Professor, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

• Fall 2013-Spring 2017,  Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Collaborators: 

1. Linda Keen,  Professor Emeritus of Graduate Center and Lehman College

2. Yunping Jiang, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Center and Queens College

3. Gaofei Zhang, Professor of Nanjing University. 

Publication:  (My research is supported by the Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York)

1.   T. Chen, and Linda Keen,  Meromorphic functions with a polar asymptotic value, Accepted by Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, arXiv:2206.05622 

2. T. Chen, Yunping Jiang, and Linda Keen, Ergodicity of some families in the Nevanlinna functions, To appear on Fundamenta Mathematicae,  Arxiv.2309.16927

3. T, Chen, Yunping Jiang, and Linda Keen, Slices of Parameter Space for Meromorphic Maps with Two Asymptotic Values, Ergodic theory and dynamical systems, 43(1), 99-139, 2023.

4. T. Chen, Yunping Jiang, and Linda Keen, Accessible Boundary Points in the Shift Locus of a Family of Meromorphic Functions with Two Finite Asymptotic Values, Arnold Mathematical Journal, 8, 147-167(2022). 

5.  T. Chen, Linda Keen, Dynamics of the meromorphic families $f_\lambda=\lambda \tan^p z^q$, New Zealand Journal of Mathematics Vaughan Jones Memorial Special Issue, Vol 52 (2021), 469-510.

6.  T. Chen, Linda Keen, Slices of Parameter Spaces of Generalized Nevanlinna Functions. Discrete and Continuous Dynamics Systems, 2019, 39(10): 5659-5681.

7. T. Chen, Yunping Jiang, Linda Keen, Cycle Doubling, Merging and Renormalization in the Tangent Family, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of American Mathematical Society, 22 (2018), 271-314.

8.  T. Chen, Yunping Jiang, and Linda Keen, Bounded geometry and characterization of some transcendental maps. Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 66 (2017), 1537-1571.

9.  T. Chen, Yunping Jiang, and Linda Keen, Bounded geometry and families of meromorphic functions with two asymptotic values, The Proceedings of the Six International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Higher Education Press and International Press, Beijing–Boston, ALM37, Vol. II (2016), 343-362.

10. T. Chen, Yunping Jiang, and Linda Keen, An appendix on transcendental functions, a Chapter in A framework towards understanding the characterization of holomorphic maps. Frontiers in Complex Dynamics: In Celebration of John Milnor’s 80th Birthday (Ed. Araceli Bonifant, Misha Lyubich, and Scott Sutherland), March 2014, Princeton University Press, 255-256.

11. T. Chen, Yunping Jiang, Canonical Thurston obstructions for sub-hyperbolic semi-rational branched coverings, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, Volume 17 (2013), 6–25.

12. T. Chen, Yunping Jiang, and Gaofei Zhang, No Invariant Line Fields on Escaping Sets of the Family $\lambda e^{iz}+\gamma e^{-iz}$, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Volume 33, Number 5(2013), 1883-1890.

Publication in Pedagogy

1. Hofrenning, Stella K.; Hargraves, Rosalyn Hobson; Chen, Tao; Filippas, Afroditi Vennie; Fitzgerald, Rhonda; Hearn, John; Kayes, Lori J.; Kunz, Joan; and Segal, Rebecca (2020). "Fishbowl Discussions: Promoting Collaboration between Mathematics and Partner Disciplines," Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations: Vol. 16: No. 1, Article 3.

2. Piercey, Victor; Segal, Rebecca; Filippas, Afroditi; Chen, Tao; Kone, Soloman; Hargraves, Rosalyn; Bookman, Jack; Hearn, John; Pike, Debbie; and Williams, Kathy PhD (2020), "Using Site Visits to Strengthen Collaboration," Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations: Vol. 16: No. 1, Article 4.

3. Lai, Choon Shan; Henshaw, Glenn; Chen, Tao; and Kone, Soloman,(2020) "Integrative and Contextual Learning in College Algebra -An Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Economics," Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations: Vol. 16: No. 1, Article 11.

4. May, Mike; Segal, Rebecca; Piercey, Victor; and Chen, Tao (2020) "Good Teachers Borrow, Great Teachers Steal: A Case Study in Borrowing for a Teaching Project," Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations: Vol. 16: No. 1, Article 15.

Press Highlight

1. Mathematical Association of America Economics Makes College Algebra Come Alive

2. CUNY The graduate Center News FROM TANGENTS TO CHAOS, VIA HOLOMORPHIC MOTION

3. CUNY SUM SNAPSHOT: A Mathematical Route to Chaos

4. CUNY Twitter

Scholarly Service

1.  Ph. D. thesis defense committee 

• Arkady Etkin (Graduate Center, 2022) 

2. Peer Reviewer

• Journal of Applied Mathematics and Informatics

• Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 

• Transaction of American Mathematical Society,

• Science China Mathematics

• Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

• Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations

2. Reviewer of American Mathematical Society

3. Reviewer of zbMATH (formerly Zentralblatt MATH)