Michael Brannan

Associate Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Associate Member, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo

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. Before moving to Waterloo in 2021, I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University. I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's 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:

PMATH 950 - Quantum Representation Theory. Course Outline

University of Waterloo Analysis Seminar (co-organized with M. Kennedy, N. Spronk, and K.Tatarko)

Online Seminar on Operator Algebras and Quantum Information (co-organized with I.Todorov and T. Vidick): Seminar Webpage

Links to my:

Students and Postdocs (Current and Former):

Roberto Hernandez-Palomares (Postdoc 2023-2025, cosupervised with M. Kennedy)
Camila Sehnem, (Postdoc 2022-2025, cosupervised with M. Kennedy)
Samuel Harris (Postdoc 2019-2022. Current: Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University)
Li Gao (Postdoc 2018-2021. Current: Assistant Professor at University of Houston)
Erik Seguin (Ph.D., ongoing, cosupervised with Nico Spronk)
Adina Goldberg (Ph.D., ongoing)
Padraig Daly (Ph.D., ongoing, cosupervised with David Kribs)
Jennifer Zhu (Ph.D., ongoing)
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)
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:

AIM Workshop: Non-local Games in Quantum Information Theory (Co-organized with Vern Paulsen, Ivan Todorov, and Anna Vershynina)
Topological Quantum Groups, C*-Tensor Categories, and Subfactors (Co-organized with Makoto Yamashita)
Brazos Analysis Seminar (Regional conference series cofounded with Mehrdad Kalantar from U. Houston and Tao Mei from Baylor U.)
Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop: Operator Algebraic Quantum Groups

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

Michael Brannan

Associate Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo Associate Member, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo

Associate Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Associate Member, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo