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 2019: Wednesday 10-11am and Tuesday 2-3pm
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 will be/am/was a Simons Fellow, visiting UC Berkeley. My research is on the mathematical foundations of topological phases of matter (which is the subject of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics). I am also a consultant for Microsoft Research Station Q, and will be a Distinguished Visiting Professor at BICMR, Peking University beginning March 2018 (spending 2 months/year in residence). 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 (September 2011-August 2015)
PI: NSA Grant (March 2012-March 2014) (awarded, but declined in favor of NSF support)
PI: NSF Grant (December 2015-December 2017)
PI: NSF Grant (December 2017-December 2020)

Research Group (postdocs and students in my "Lab"):

Qing Zhang, PHD student
Adam Deaton, PHD student

Emeritus members:

Andrew Kimball, PHD (2019)
Yuze Ruan, Masters (2018)
Julia Plavnik, postdoc (2018)
Paul Gustafson, PHD (2018)
Daniel Creamer, PHD (2018)
Christian Williams, Masters (2017)
Liang Chang, postdoc (2016)
Paul Bruillard PHD (2013)
Deepak Naidu, postdoc (2010)

Conference Co-organization

August 14-19, 2016: Modular Categories--their Representations, Classification and Applications CMO, Oaxaca, MX
January 4-7, 2017: Special Session at the JMM, Atlanta, GA.
April 1-2, 2017: Special Session at AMS Central Meeting, Bloomington, IN
July 24-28, 2017 Sepcial Session "Mathematics of Quantum Phases of Matter and Quantum Information" Math Congress of the Americas. Centre Mont-Royal and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
September 20-22, 2018: 1st IAMCS Workshop on Quantum Computation, Texas A&M University. (with Klappenecker, Wang and Zeng).
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)

Travel and Conference Schedule (reverse chronological order)

June 22-June28, 2020: Mathematics of Topological Phases of Matter IPAM (UCLA)
December 15-21, 2019: ShenZhen, China.
December 4-7, 2019: LSU Colloquium and TAMU Graduation.
October 27-30, 2019: Quantumfest, CINVESTAV, Mexico City.
October 15-19, 2019: Simons Annual Meeting, New York City.
Sept 30-Oct 04, 2019: SQuaRE at American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose, CA.
August 2019-June 2020: Berkeley, CA
August 19-24 2019: Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara.
July 3-31, 2019: Beijing, China and Sendai, Japan.
June 23-29, 2019: Quantum Symmetries (lecture series) Bogota, Colombia
May 3-9, 2019: Vanderbilt U. Conference (no talk)
April 5, 2019: Quantum Computing Seminar, Ohio State U.
February 28-March 1: Seminar, Louisiana State U.
February 14-18, 2019: Colloquium, Indiana U.
January 11, 2019: MSRI, Berkeley, CA
January 7-10, 2019: Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara.
December 10-14, 2018: Quantum 60, Cordoba, Argentina.
October 14-19, 2018: Subfactors and Fusion Categories, Banff, Canada.
September 20-22, 2018: 1st IAMCS Workshop on Quantum Computation, Texas A&M (home!)
August 27-30, 2018: IPAM conference (tentative).
August 22-26, 2018: Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara
July 17-August 14, 2018: BICMR, Peking University, China
May 10-24, 2018: BICMR, Peking University, China
April 13-16, 2018: AMS sectional, Nashville, TN.
April 4-6, 2018: Materials Science Research Spring meeting, Phoenix, AZ
February 28-March 2, 2018: Leeds, UK
February 16-18, 2018: Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, U. Houston.
December 1-9, 2017: consulting Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara CA.
November 4-5, 2017: AMS Sectional, Riverside, CA.
September 9-10, 2017: AMS Sectional, Denton, TX.
August 5-26, 2017: San Diego
July 31-August 3, 2017: Kitaev Models, Perimiter Institute, Waterloo, Canada.
July 24-28, 2017: Math. Congress of the Americas, Montreal, Canada.
July 17-21, 2017: Probabilistic and algebraic methods in quantum information theory, Texas A&M (home!)
July 4-6, 2017: Quantum Physics and Geometry, Trento, Italy.
June 15-July 13, 2017: Sweden, Italy, Finland.
May 28-June 9, 2017: Tensor Categories and Field Theories: U. Melborne, Sydney, and Canberra, Australia.

Teaching/Lectures

Courses:

Sabbatical 2019-2020

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 June 2019 or later.