Yuzhou Joey Zou (邹雨舟)

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematics and Science Center
146 Library Drive
Rochester, MI 48309-4479

Email: yzou oakland edu (insert punctuation as needed)

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland University.
I am interested in microlocal analysis, inverse problems, PDE, and mathematical physics.

I obtained my Ph.D. in August 2021 from Stanford University under the supervision of András Vasy. I completed postdoctoral positions at UC Santa Cruz (2021-2022) working with François Monard and at Northwestern University (2022-2025) working with Jared Wunsch.

Here is my CV.

Teaching

I am the instructor for MTH 3002 (Intro to Advanced Mathematical Thinking) in Fall 2026.

Previous teaching

Papers

1. The asymptotic structure of forward scattering, joint with Nicholas Lohr and Izak Oltman and Ethan Sussman.

   Preprint, 2026.

2. Gaussian-weighted normal operators on Euclidean space.

   Preprint, 2026.

3. A Comparison Test for Meromorphic Extensions, joint with Adi Glücksam.

   Preprint, 2026.

4. Tensor tomography on asymptotically hyperbolic surfaces, joint with Nikolas Eptaminitakis and François Monard.

   Preprint, 2025. Updated August 2026--significantly expanded to cover tensor tomography for tensors of odd order.

5. A Gutzwiller trace formula for singular potentials, joint with Jared Wunsch and Mengxuan Yang.

   Preprint, 2025.

6. Asymptotic Expansion of the Eigenvalues of a Bathtub Potential with Quadratic Ends.

   Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol. 406, no. 220. 2025. DOI: 10.1007/s00220-025-05394-3.

7. The hyperbolic X-ray transform: new range characterizations, mapping properties and functional relations, joint with Nikolas Eptaminitakis and François Monard.

   Inverse Problems and Imaging, Vol. 22, 65-100. 2026. DOI:10.3934/ipi.2025045.

8. Helmholtz quasi-resonances are unstable under most single-signed perturbations of the wave speed, joint with Euan A. Spence and Jared Wunsch.

   Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 440, Part 2. 2025. DOI:10.1016/j.jde.2025.113441.

9. The Morse index theorem for mechanical systems with reflections, joint with Jared Wunsch and Mengxuan Yang.

   Nonlinearity, Vol. 37, no. 8. 2024. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6544/ad5636.

10. Boundary triples for a family of degenerate elliptic operators of Keldysh type, joint with François Monard.

    Pure and Applied Analysis, Vol. 6, no. 2, 541-580. 2024. DOI: 10.2140/paa.2024.6.541.

11. The C^∞-isomorphism property for a class of singularly-weighted X-ray transforms, joint with Rohit Kumar Mishra and François Monard.

    Inverse Problems, Vol. 39, no. 2. 2023. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/aca8cb.

12. Microlocal Methods for The Elastic Travel Time Tomography Problem for Transversely Isotropic Media.

    Submitted for publication, 2021.

13. Streak artifacts from non-convex metal objects in X-ray tomography, joint with Yiran Wang.

    Pure and Applied Analysis, Vol. 3, no. 2, 295-318. 2021. DOI: 10.2140/paa.2021.3.295.

14. Partial Global Recovery in the Elastic Travel Time Tomography Problem for Transversely Isotropic Media.

    Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Vol. 74, no. 5, 2077-2139. 2024. DOI:10.5802/aif.3617.

Upcoming conferences/workshops/travel

• SIAM Great Lakes Section Meeting , Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, September 18-19, 2026.
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Chicago, IL, January 12-15, 2027.

Recently attended conferences/workshops

• "The VII AMMCS International Conference", Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August, 2026.
• "Great Lakes Mathematical Physics Meeting 2026", University of Dayton, June, 2026.
• "May Midwestern Microlocal Meeting", Chicago, IL, May, 2026.
• "2026 AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting", Boston College, Boston, MA, March, 2026. (co-organized the Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Mathematical Physics)
• "Modern Applications of Microlocal Analysis", University College London, London, UK, February, 2026.
• "High energy spectral theory: geometry and dynamics", Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, January, 2026.
• "Joint Mathematics Meetings", Washington, DC, January, 2026.
• "2025 Northwestern Dynamics RTG REU", Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June-August, 2025.
• "Great Lakes Mathematical Physics Meeting 2025", University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, June, 2025.
• "TeachX 2025", Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May, 2025.
• "2025 AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting", University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, March, 2025.
• "Harmonic and Microlocal Analysis in Partial Differential Equations", MATRIX Institute, Creswick, Australia, December, 2024.
• "2024 AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting", UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, October, 2024.
• "Triangle Area Inverse Problems Weekend", NC State University, Raleigh, NC, October, 2024.
• "Summer School: Geometric Inverse Problems and Inverse Problems for Elliptic Equations", UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, August, 2024.
• "NU Trends in Ergodic Theory", Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, July, 2024.
• "Microlocal Analysis and Quantum Dynamics" summer school and conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June, 2024. (co-organized)
• "Great Lakes Mathematical Physics Meeting 2024", Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, June, 2024.

Links

• UChicago Math REU - a good opportunity to learn more math over the summer as an undergrad. I participated in 2014 and 2015.
• International Mathematics Competition—competition math for college students!
• Nonograms—a discrete tomography problem in puzzle form.