Skip to main content

Colleen Delaney

NOTE: E-mail addresses end with @purdue.edu

Faculty
MATH 440
(765) 494-0846
[Homepage]

Education

  • PhD in Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara 2019
  • MS in Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara 2016
  • BS in Physics, Caltech 2013

Professional Experience

  • Simons Collaboration Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Berkeley, 2022-2024
  • NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Indiana University, 2019-2022
  • Microsoft Station Q Graduate Research Fellow, 2018-2019

Research Interests

Topological order, fusion categories, topological quantum field theory, quantum computation, quantum topology, categorical symmetries and anomalies, algebraic combinatorics of QFT

Teaching

Math 366 (Ordinary Differential Equations), Fall 2024

Selected Research Articles

  1. An algorithm for Tambara-Yamagami quantum invariants of 3-manifolds, parametrized by the first Betti number. with Clément Maria and Eric Samperton. arXiv:2311.08514
  2. Zesting produces modular isotopes and explains their topological invariants. with Sung Kim and Julia Plavnik. arXiv:2107.11374
  3. Braided zesting and its applications. Colleen Delaney, César Galindo, Julia Plavnik, Eric C. Rowell, and Qing Zhang. Communications in Mathematical Physics. Vol. 386. (2021)
  4. On invariants of modular categories beyond modular data. Parsa Bonderson, Colleen Delaney, César Galindo, Eric C. Rowell, Alan Tran, Zhenghan Wang. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. Vol. 223. (2019).

 

 

Last Updated: Mar 7, 2025 3:06 PM

Department of Physics and Astronomy, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2036 • Phone: (765) 494-3000 • Fax: (765) 494-0706

Copyright © 2024 Purdue University | An equal access/equal opportunity university | Copyright Complaints | DOE Degree Scorecards

Trouble with this page? Accessibility issues? Please contact the College of Science.