Eric C. Rowell
Professor, Presidential Impact Fellow
Department of Mathematics
Mailstop 3368
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3368
Office: Blocker 510B.
Office hours, Spring 2024: Wednesday 12-1:30pm
E-mail: rowell “at”
math.tamu.edu
Telephone: (979) 845-2833 Non-functioning after August 2011 due to
budget cuts (no joke).
Fax: (979) 845-6028
Papers, Preprints and CV
I am a professor in the Texas A&M
mathematics department and a 2018 Texas A&M Presidental Imact
Fellow. During the 2019-2020 academic year I was a Simons
Fellow, visiting UC Berkeley and MSRI. My research
is on the mathematical foundations of topological phases of
matter, the subject of the 2016
Nobel
Prize in Physics. Bruillard, Ng, Wang and I received
the Alexanderson
Award in 2019. I was a consultant for Microsoft
Research Station
Q from 2015-2021), and was a Special Visiting Professor at
BICMR, Peking University March 2018-March 2021. Previously, I was
a VIGRE postdoc at Indiana University. I
received my Ph.D. in mathematics from UC San Diego in 2003, under the direction of Hans Wenzl.
Grants:
- PI: NSA Grant (March 2008-March 2010)
- PI: NSA Grant (March
2010-March 2012)
- PI: NSF Grant
DMS-1108725 (September 2011-August 2015)
- PI: NSF Grant
DMS-1410144 (December 2015-December 2017)
- PI: NSF Grant DMS-1664359
(December 2017-December 2022)
- PI: NSF Grant DMS-2000331
(May 2021-May 2023 from Brannan)
- PI: NSF Grant DMS-2205962
(September 2022-December 2025)
Research Group (postdocs and
students in my "Lab"):
- Hannah Solomon, PHD student
- Aatmun Baxi, PhD student
Emeritus members:
- Benjamin Warren, PHD (2025)
- Adam Deaton, Masters (2024)
- Zhaobidan Feng, PHD (2024)
- Roberto Hernandez Palomares, postdoc (2022)
- John Weeks, PHD (2022) (from Brannan)
- Priyanga Ganesan PHD (2022) (from Brannan)
- Qing
Zhang, PHD (2019) (Now: UCSB postdoc)
- Andrew Kimball, PHD
(2019) (Now: Government)
- Yuze Ruan, Masters (2018) (Now: Tsinghua PHD)
- Julia Plavnik, postdoc (2018) (Now:
Tenured at Indiana University)
- Paul Gustafson, PHD (2018)
(Now: Private Industry)
- Daniel Creamer, PHD (2018)
(Now: Tabor College)
- Christian Williams, Masters (2017) (Now: UC Riverside PHD)
- Liang Chang, postdoc (2016) (Now: Nankai University)
- Paul Bruillard PHD (2013) (Now: Industry)
- Deepak Naidu, postdoc (2010) (Now: Northern Illinois
University)
Conference Co-organization
- May 13-15, 2019: 2nd
IAMCS Workshop on Quantum Computation and Information.
(with Brannan, Klappenecker and Song)
- July 14-20, 2019: Topological Physics,
Beijing, China (with Tian and Wang)
- Spring 2020, MSRI Semester: Quantum Symmetries,
Berkeley, CA (with Jones, Morrison, Peters, Snyder,
Ostrik, Walton)
- August 20, 2021: SIAM minisymposium,
(online)
- October 9-15, 2023: ICMS Topological
Quantum Computation Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Teaching/Lectures
Courses:
Presentations and Talk Slides:
Zhenghan Wang's Frontiers Lectures:
(March 2015) talk1, talk2, talk3
USC Colloquium (January 2016)
Public
Lecture, Beihang University (June 2016)
Personal Links
- My
Mathematics Genealogy E.R.--H. Wenzl--V.F.R.
Jones--A. Haefliger--C.
Ehresmann--E. Cartan--(G. Darboux and S. Lie)...14 generations
from G. Leibniz (Ph.D 1666).
- Erdos
Number: 3: Erdos--R. Graham--R.
Stong--E.C.R. (actually R. Graham was on my Ph.D. thesis
committee, so maybe that gives me a 2.5.)
MuTianYu section of Great Wall, September 2013
Last updated April 2025 or later.