Eric C. Rowell                                          

Assistant Professor                                                                                                                

Department of Mathematics

Mailstop 3368

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77843-3368

Office: Milner 210
Office hours: TBA.
E-mail:  rowell “at” math.tamu.edu
Telephone: (979) 845-2833
Fax: (979) 845-6028

Publications | Research | Schedule | Teaching | Mathematics Links | Useful Links | Personal Links

Conferences

·         Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds and modular categories, a special session of the Spring AMS Central meeting, April 10-11, 2010 in St. Paul, MN. Co-organized with Thang Le and Vladimir Turaev.

·         Fusion Categories and Applications a special session of the Fall AMS Central meeting in Waco, TX October 17-18, 2009.  Co-organized with Deepak Naidu.

·         Modular Categories and Applications held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana March 19-22, 2009.  Co-organized with Michael Larsen and Zhenghan Wang.  

Publications and Talks

·         Downloads and Abstracts (includes submitted and unpublished papers)

·         Curriculum vitae (pdf)

·          La Falda slides (9/09) (pdf)

·         U South Alabama Colloquium  Seminar (11/09) (pdf)

·          UT Tyler slides (10/09) (pdf)

Research

I am an assistant professor in the Texas A&M mathematics department.  Previously, I was a VIGRE postdoc at Indiana University. I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from UC San Diego in 2003, my thesis advisor was Hans Wenzl.

Grants:

• NSA Grant H98230-08-1-0020 (March 2008-March 2010)

• NSA Grant (March 2010-March 2012)

Conference and Talk Schedule 2009

• February 13-14, 2010, Subfactors and Fusion Categories, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
  

• April 10-11 2010, Quantum Invariants of 3-Manifolds and Modular Categories, AMS Sectional, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.

Teaching

Current Courses (Spring 2010):

M654: Algebra (Graduate)

Old Courses:

M308: Differential Equations

M653: Algebra (Graduate)

Spring 2009: M311 Topics in Applied Math

Weekly Schedule (HOMEWORK POSTED HERE)

First Day Handout

Fall 2008: M311 Topic in Applied Math

    First Day Handout

    Weekly Schedule

Spring 2008: M308 Differential Equations

Fall 2007: M151 Calculus I

Spring 2007: M220 Fundamentals of Discrete Math

Syllabus and other information

Fall 2006: M311 Topic in Applied Math

First Day Handout

Weekly Schedule

Mathematics Links

Resources on the Web:

·         arXiv.org e-Print Archive

·         On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

·         AMS website

Useful Links

·         Google

·         Wikipedia

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).

·         Erdös Number: 4 For example:  Erdös—L. Lovász—M. H. Freedman—Z. Wang—E.R. 

Last updated 8/08