Shawn Xingshan Cui (崔星山)

Associate Professor at
Department of Mathematics with a joint appointment at
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Purdue University

150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

Office: Math 716
Email: cui177 at purdue dot edu
Phone: 496-0926

My CV

Current Teaching (Fall 2023)

MA 26600: Ordinary Differential Equations.  TTh 10:30a-11:45a and 12:00p-1:15p, SCHM 316. 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)

Varadharaja​n(Rajan) Muruganandam (graduate student, joint with Sabre Kais)

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