Current Teaching (Fall 2024)
MA 261: Multivariate Calculus. MWF 3:30p-4:20p, Brown Family Hall (BHEE) 129. For more information, refer to the Brightspace page for this course.
Research Interests
low dimensional topology, knot theory, topological quantum field theory, tensor categories, topological quantum computation, quantum information
Publications and Preprints
A list of publications can be found on arXiv, Google scholar, or the CV above.
Group members
Qing Zhang (Golomb Visiting Assistant Professor. Next: Visiting Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara, since 2023)
Penghua Chen (graduate student)
Bowen Yan (graduate student)
Nicolas Bridges (graduate student)
Diego Arturo Romero Fonseca (graduate student, University of the Andes (Colombia), joint with César Galindo)
Miscellaneous
- Lecture notes for a 5-week course on topological quantum computation at Stanford University during Spring 2018, pdf
- Legendary story about renowned Chinese mathematicians Shiing-shen Chern and Hua Luogeng, web link
- My Erdős number is 3, via the path "Myself - Michael Freedman - László Lovász - Paul Erdős".
- From here to Math Department, Physics Department, Topology Seminar
- A review article on quantum error correction in SIAM News, "Fighting Errors with Space".
