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. Right now, I am working on understanding disordered open quantum dynamics.
This semester, I am the recitation leader and grader for MTH 828: Graduate real analysis I.
My Google Scholar and my ORCiD.
Research
I am interested in the mathematical physics of quantum mechanics. Currently, I am working on disordered open quantum dynamics. In particular, I study the theory of ergodic quantum processes (aka, repeated interaction quantum systems, aka, quantum collision models), which, mathematically, are positive linear cocycles on finite-dimensional von Neumann algebras.
Preprints
Reducibility Theory and Ergodic Theorems for Homogeneous Repeated Quantum Interactions, arxiv:2406.10982.
with J. Schenker.Asymptotic Purification of Quantum Trajectories under Disordered Generalized Measurements, arXiv:2404.03168.
with E. Moreno-Nadales, L. Pathirana, & J. Schenker.
In preparation
Spectral Properties and Mixing for Homogeneous Repeated Quantum Interactions, (in preparation).
with J. Schenker.Ergodic Theorems for Quantum Trajectories under Disordered Generalized Measurements, (in preparation).
with E. Moreno-Nadales & L. Pathirana.
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.