Personal data


     • Citizenship:       Chinese 
     • Place of Birth:   Chengdu, China        
     • Office:                Heinrichstr. 36, 8010 Graz, Austria, 
                                                           Room 528
     • Phone:               (+ 43 316) 380 5155
     • E-mail:               [email protected]

Education and positions

     • March 2014 – present 
      FWF-Project: Sets of Lengths in Krull monoids,
      Institute for Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
      Postdoc
     • July 2013 – Feb. 2014
       Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
       Assistant researcher
    • Sept. 2008  – June 2013
       Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
       Ph.D. Degree,   Combinatorial Number Theory
       Advised by Prof. Weidong Gao
    • Sept. 2004 – June 2008
       College of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
       B.S. Degree, Pure Mathematics

Research Interests

   •  Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory: Zero-Sum theory  and Additive
       problems  (11P70, 11R27, 11B30, 11B50   20K01).
   •  Commutative Algebra : non-unique factorization theory  (11B30, 11R27, 13A05,      
​      20M13).

Honors & Scholarship

   •  National Scholarship for PhD (China), 2012

Scientific Conferences and Seminars

•   30th Journées Arithmétiques
     University of Caen, Caen, France
     July 3-7, 2017
     Talk: The set of  minimal distances and Characterization of class groups.
 •    Palaiseau Days on Additive Combinatorics
      École polytechnique (Palaiseau), Paris, France            
          June  29-30, 2017
​     Talk: The set of  minimal distances and Characterization of class groups in Krull                       monoids.
 •    Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
       Date:  Thursday, 27.10.2016, 15:15‒16:45
       Room:   SR 11.32, Heinrichstraße 36, Uni Graz, Austira
      Talk:  Sets of minimal distances and characterizations of class groups
                of Krull monoids
 •    Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
       Date:  Thursday, 21.4.2016, 15:00‒16:30
       Room:   SR 11.34, Heinrichstraße 36, Uni Graz, Austira
      Talk:  The set of distances in seminormal weakly Krull monoids
 •   Triveni Number Theory Meet @ HRI
     HRI,  Allahabad,  India
     March  4–8,  2016
     Talk:  Sets of lengths in Krull momoids
 •    Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
       Date:  Thursday, 29.10.2015, 15:15‒16:45
       Room:   SR 11.32, Heinrichstraße 36, Uni Graz, Austria
      Talk:  A characterization of class groups via sets of lengths
​ •   Seminar on Combinatorial Number theory, 2015
     Center for  Combinatorics, Nankai  Unversity, Tianjin, China
    ​ October  9-11，2015
     Talk: Sets of lengths of zero-sum sequences
 •   Additive Combinatorics in Marseille,
     CIRM, Marseille, France
     September 7 – 11, 2015
     Talk: The set ∆* (G) of minimal distances.
 •   29th Journées Arithmétiques
     University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
     July 5-10, 2015
     Talk: The set of minimal distances in Krull monoids.
  •   Arithmetic and Ideal Theory in Rings and Semigroups
      University of Graz, Graz, Austria
       September 22-26, 2014.
    •  Seminar on Combinatorics Number Theory
       Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China
       November 15–18, 2012
   •  The Renaissance of Combinatorics: Advances-Algorithms-Applications: In
      Honor of Doron Zeilberger’s 60th Birthday
      George E. Andrews, Bill Chen, Peter Paule
      Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
      August 14–17, 2010
   • The Fifth Cross-Strait Conference on Graph Theory and Combinatorics
       Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
       July 29–31, 2009
FOUNDATIONS
   •  As participant: National Natural Science Foundation of China   
       (0.26 million RMB Yuan),2010.01-2012.12, Grant No: 10971108;
   •  As participant: National Natural Science Foundation of China
       (0.60 million RMB Yuan),2013.01-2016.12, Grant No: 11271207;

Publications

1.  Y. Fan, W. Gao, and Q. Zhong.
    On the Erdos-Ginzburg-Ziv constant of finite abelian groups of high rank. 
    J. Number Theory, 131: 1864 – 1874, 2011.
2.  Y. Fan, W. Gao, G. Wang, Q. Zhong, and J. Zhuang.
     On short zero-sum subsequences of zero-sum sequences.
     The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 19(3): #P31, 2012.
3.  Y. Fan, W. Gao, L. Wang, and Q. Zhong.
     Two zero-sum invarints on finite abelian groups.
     European Journal of Combinatorics, 34(8): 1331-1337, 2013 .
4.  Y. Fan, W. Gao, J. Peng, L. Wang, and Q. Zhong.
     Remarks on Tiny Zero-sum Sequences.
    INTEGERS: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, 13:  #A52, 2013.
5.  W. Gao, J. Peng, and Q. Zhong.
     A quantitative aspect of non-unique factorizations: the Narkiewicz constants III.
     Acta Arithmetica, 158: 271 – 285, 2013.
6.  A. Geroldinger  and  Q.  Zhong
     The set of minimal distances in Krull monoids.   
     Acta Arithmetica,  173: 97-120, 2016
     DOI: 10.4064/aa7906-1-2016
7.  A. Geroldinger  and  Q.  Zhong
     The catenary degree of  Krull monoids II.  
     Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society,  98(3): 324–354, 2015
     DOI: 10.1017/S1446788714000585
8.  Y. Qu, X. Xia, L. Xue, and Q. Zhong
     Subsequence sums of zero-sum free sequences over finite abelian groups. 
     Colloquium Mathematicum, 140: 119 --127, 2015
     DOI: 10.4064/cm140-1-10
9.  Y. Fan  and  Q.  Zhong
     On the Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv constant of groups of the form $C_2^r\oplus C_n$.
          International Journal of Number Theory, 12(4): 913–943, 2016
     DOI: 10.1142/S1793042116500573
10. A. Geroldinger  and  Q.  Zhong
      A CHARACTERIZATION OF CLASS GROUPS VIA SETS OF LENGTHS II.
      Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux,  29(2): 327-346,  2017
      DOI: 10.5802/jtnb.983 
11. Y. Fan  and  Q.  Zhong
      Products of $k$ atoms in Krull monoids.
      Monatshefte für Mathematik，181(4): 779--795,  2016
      DOI:10.1007/s00605-016-0942-9
12. A. Geroldinger  and  Q.  Zhong
     The set of distances in seminormal weakly Krull monoids.
     Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 220: 3713 -- 3732, 2016 
            DOI:10.1016/j.jpaa.2016.05.009
13. A. Geroldinger, W.  Schmid, and  Q.  Zhong
     Systems of sets of lengths: transfer Krull monoids versus weakly Krull monoids.
       In: Fontana M., Frisch S., Glaz S., Tartarone F., Zanardo P. (eds) 
      Rings, Polynomials, and Modules. pp 191-235 (2017). Springer, Cham. 
     DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65874-2_11
14. Q.  Zhong
​      Sets of minimal distances and  characterizations of class groups of Krull monoids.
​      The Ramanujan Journal, 45(3):719--737, 2018
       DOI :10.1007/s11139-016-9873-2
15.  A. Geroldinger  and  Q.  Zhong
       Long sets of lengths with maximal elasticity. 
       Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 70: 1284-1318, 2018
       DOI: 10.4153/CJM-2017-043-4
16.  Q.  Zhong
     A characterization of finite abelian groups via sets of lengths in transfer Krull monoids
​     Communications in Algebra,  46: 4021-4041,2018
     DOI: 10.1080/00927872.2018.1430811
   
17.  A. Geroldinger  and  Q.  Zhong
​       Sets of arithmetical invariants in transfer Krull monoids
       submitted.
18.  Q.  Zhong
​       On elasticities of locally finitely generated monoids
       submitted.
19.  A. Geroldinger  and  Q.  Zhong
       A characterization of seminormal C-monoids
       submitted.
20.  Q.  Zhong
​       On the arithmetic of Mori monoids and domains
       submitted.