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"):
- Zhaobidan Feng, PHD student
- Hannah Solomon, PHD student
- Benjamin Warren, PHD student
- Aatmun Baxi, PhD student
- Adam Deaton, 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:
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.
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.