Chair & Dwight B. Goodner Professor of

Mathematics

Department of Mathematics,

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL

Office: 227 Love Building

Phone: 850-645-3338

Fax: 850-644-4053

Em: bowers AT math DOT fsu DOT edu

Research Interests

I was trained as a topologist, but have moved more and more into geometry and complex analysis and have started dabbling in some applications of mathematics. My continuing interests are

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   •Discrete conformal geometry: conformal tilings; circle packings on Riemann surfaces; discrete analytic functions; the type problem for graphs; piecewise flat surfaces and their conformal types; Grothendieck dessins d'enfants;
   
   

2. •Geometric group theory: negatively curved, automatic, and CAT(0)-groups; boundaries of groups; metric geometry;
   
   

3. •Classical complex analysis: the Koebe uniformization problem;
   
   

4. •Applications: discrete conformal flattenings; numerical uniformizations of riemann surfaces and piecewise flat surfaces; flat anatomical mappings;
   
   

5. •Quantum: quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, quantum computing.
   
   

My Family

My son John C. Bowers is a student in the computer science department at UMass, Amherst. His wife Katherine is currently attending Simmon’s library science program.

My son Thomas is a student at Florida State, and makes freehand pipes, among other things. His wife Kellie is completing her Anthropology degree at FSU.

My daughter Maddy is in 5th grade.