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, Fall 2020: TBD
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"):
- Zhaobidan Feng, PHD student
- Hannah Solomon, PHD student
- Benjamin Warren, PHD student
- Aatmun Baxi, Masters student
Emeritus members:
- 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: Indiana
University)
- Paul Gustafson, PHD (2018) (Now: U.
Penn postdoc)
- 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.
Travel and Conference Schedule (reverse
chronological order)
- May
7-11, 2023: NCGOA,
Vanderbilt U.
- March
14-20, 2023: Alexanderson Prize Meeting, Bock Cay, Bahamas.
- November
16-18, 2022: NYC
- November
6-11, 2022: Quantum
Information Conference, Saarbruecken, Germany
- October
23-19, 2022: Quantum
Symmetries, Montreal, Canada
- September
25-October 1, 2022: American Insititute of Mathematics, San Jose, CA.
- September
10-17, 2022: University of Leeds, UK
- June
2022: Sweden, France, UK (collab. visits and Turaev
conference)
- May
2022: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- February
20-26, 2022: American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose, CA
- September
12-18, 2021: MFO workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany
- August
28-September 2, 2021: IPAM Graduate Summer School on Topological Phases
(UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center)
- January
2020: University of Leeds, UK (last pre-pandemic trip!)
Teaching/Lectures
Courses:
Fall 2023: Representations of Lie Algebras
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 July 2022 or later.