Owen Ekblad

Email: ekbladow@msu.edu 

Office: C540 Wells Hall

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in the department of mathematics at Michigan State University. I am a student of Professor Jeff Schenker. My research is in mathematical physics and disordered systems.

My Google Scholar and my ORCiD. 

Research

I am interested in the effect of disorder on mathematical models of physics, particularly on those that describe quantum mechanical phenomena. 

Currently, I work on disordered open quantum systems. I study the theory of ergodic quantum processes (aka, repeated interaction quantum systems, aka, quantum collision models), which, mathematically, are certain linear cocycles with physically-relevant positivity properties. This formalism incorporates classical disorder into models of open quantum dynamics.

Preprints

In preparation

My Google Scholar and my ORCiD. 

Seminars

Here are the seminars at MSU I have organized. 

Graduate student colloquium
Initiated by myself, and co-organized with Ivan So, the graduate student colloquium was a venue in which graduate student mathematicians presented their research to other grad students, in general-audience style talks. The colloquium is concluded as of April 18, 2024. Maybe it will resume in the future. See more here

C*@MSU
C*-algebra theory, Fall semester 2023. Co-ran with Aldo Garcia Guinto. This seminar is concluded as of December 8, 2023.

RMT@MSU
Random matrix theory, Spring semester 2023. This seminar is concluded as of April 27, 2023. See more here