Michael Brannan
E-mail: michael(dot)brannan(at)uwaterloo.ca
Office: MC 5447
Hello! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. I'm also a member of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo. Before 2021, I was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.
Research Interests: Operator Algebras, Quantum Information Theory (QIT), Representation Theory, Quantum Symmetries (Quantum Groups), Non-commutative Probability, and Quantum Algebra. I am particularly interested in studying interactions between these fields.
Current Teaching (Summer 2024):
SYDE 112 - Calculus 2
Some Current Seminars of Interest in the Pure Mathematics Department:
- Departmental Analysis Seminar (co-organized with M. Kennedy, N. Spronk, K. Tatarko, and A. Zucker).
- Operator Algebras Learning Seminar - Tuesdays 1:00pm in MC 5417
- Quantum PCP Seminar - Wednesdays 1:30pm (room TBA)
- Harmonic Analysis on Tensor Categories Learning Seminar - time and date TBA
Links to my:
Postdocs (Current and Former):
- Roberto Hernandez-Palomares (Postdoc 2023-present, cosupervised with M. Kennedy)
- Junichiro Matsuda (Postdoc 2024-present, cosupervised with M. Kennedy)
- Camila Sehnem, (Postdoc 2022-present, cosupervised with M. Kennedy)
- Alex Frei (Postdoc 2023-present, cosupervised with M. Kennedy and W. Slofstra)
- Samuel Harris (Postdoc 2019-2022. Current: Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University)
- Li Gao (Postdoc 2018-2021. Current: Assistant Professor at University of Houston)
Students (Current and Former):
- Adina Goldberg (Ph.D., ongoing)
- Alec Gow (Ph.D., ongoing)
- Aareyan Manzoor (M.Math., ongoing)
- Erik Seguin (Ph.D., ongoing, cosupervised with Nico Spronk)
- Jennifer Zhu (Ph.D., ongoing)
- Padraig Daly (Ph.D. 2023, cosupervised with David Kribs)
- Benjamin Anderson-Sackaney (Ph.D. 2022. Current: Postdoc at University of Caen)
- Priyanga Ganesan (Ph.D. 2022. Current: Postdoc at UCSD)
- John Weeks (Ph.D. 2022. Current: Lecturer at TAMU.)
- Kari Eifler (Ph.D. 2021. Current: Data Scientist at Microsoft)
- Xiaoyu Su (M.Sc. 2019. Current: Ph.D. at TAMU Math)
- Tristan Pace (M.Sc. 2019. Current: Ph.D. at UT Austin Math)
- Stefan Frunza (Undergraduate researcher, Fall 2023)
- Nick Priebe (Undergraduate researcher, Summer 2023)
- Noah Fournier (Undergraduate researcher 2020. Current: M.Phil. Oxford Math)
- Daniel Kimble (Undergraduate researcher 2020)
- Braden Yosko (Undergraduate researcher 2020)
- Josiah Blaisdell (Undergraduate researcher 2017. Current: Ph.D. at Oregon State Computer Science)
- Nathan Mehlhop(Undergraduate researcher 2018. Current: Ph.D. at Rutgers Math)
- William Ogletree (Undergraduate researcher 2018)
UPCOMING AND RECENT CONFERENCES THAT I (CO-)ORGANIZED:
2019 Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium
The 2nd IAMCS Workshop on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
Free Probability - On the occasion of Roland Speicher's 60th birthday
Probabilistic and Algebraic Methods in Quantum Information Theory