2013 Winter Research

Definition: Winter 2013 means January-April 2013.
This page includes: Progress log | Tasks at a glance | Violin checklist | Internet usage

Aim: > 6 hours of Writing + Reading + Thinking; < 2 hours of Discussions + Others.
Black -- Writing; Purple -- Reading; Green -- Thinking; Light Purple -- Face/Mind Bumping; Blue -- Dreaming/Locations/Admin.

• January 1-12:
  • 1: Gcat: Worked on Section II.A. [1 hour]
  • 2: Gcat: Worked more on Section II.A, while not letting go. [1 hour]
  • 3: GeoCodes: Worked on Section 6.7 (Establishing the projectively flat connections on the restriction bundles). [3.75 hours]
  • 4: GeoCodes: Finished adding to Section 6.6 (Paths in F, paths in the restriction bundles and paths in Gr(K,N)). [1.25 hour]
  • 4: GeoCodes: Worked on Section 6.7 again. [0.5 hour]
  • 4: Braidpack-NP: Reviewed QIP poster. [0.25 hour]
  • 4: Braidpack-NP: Took a look at the first page. [0.25 hour]
  • 4: GeoCodes: Worked some more on Section 6.7. [0.5 hour]
  • 5: GeoCodes: Worked on Section 6.7. [2 hours]
  • 5: GeoCodes: Made some progress on Section 6.7. [2.75 hours]
  • 6: GeoCodes: Worked more on Section 6.7. [2.5 hours]
  • 7: GeoCodes: More or less finished writing Section 6.7. [1.5 hours]
  • 7: Yidun: asked me questions about quantum groups. [0.5 hour]
  • 7: Daniel: Discussed approach to Section 5, 6 and 7 (Example II: Toric codes and string operators), mostly 7. [1.5 hour]
  • 8: GeoCodes: Added intro to Section 7, organized the section, started adding to Section 7.1 (The toric codes). [1 hour]
  • 8: GeoCodes: Worked on Sections 7.1 and 7.2 (The string operators). [3.5 hours]
  • 8: Xie: Discussed about SPT phases together. [0.25 hour]
  • 8: Freddy et al.: Physics with Yangians. [0.25 hour]
  • 8: GeoCodes: Worked on Sections 7.4 (The fault-tolerant operations ...) and 7.7 (A projectively flat partial parallel transport on the graph M_1 imbedded in M), and organized Section 7 overall. [1.25 hours]
  • 8: Yangang: I explained to him some things about Zhengcheng's talk. [0.5 hour]
  • 9: GeoCodes: Worked more on Section 7.2. [1.5 hours]
  • 9: Mike Mosca: Emailed about my future intention with the IARPA project. [0.5 hour]
  • 9: Xie: Emailed to initiate a discussion and suggested topics. [0.5 hour]
  • 9: Joel: Exchanged emails about Xiao-Gang. [0.5 hour]
  • 9: GeoCodes: Finished working on Section 7.1, expanded Section 7.2.2 (Discrete time-ordered string operators) and discussions with Daniel. [2.5 hours]
  • 9: Xie, Evelyn, Juven: Explained my projects and clarified a few concepts in category theory. [1 hour]
  • 9: GeoCodes: Worked on 7.2.2. [0.75 hour]
  • 9: Postdoc application: Reviewed January deadlines and gave heads-ups to recommenders. [0.5 hour]
  • 9: Mike M. and Robert K.: Emailed exchanges about IQC postdoc arrangements. [0.5 hour]
  • 9: GeoCodes: Worked more on Section 7.2.2. [1.25 hour]
  • 10: GeoCodes: Finished writing Section 7.2.2. [3 hours]
  • 10: Bei: Discussed about program member support for my potential CIFAR Junior Fellow Academy application. [0.25 hour]
  • 10: Tian (Lan) and Xia-Gang: Discussed about the Drinfeld center and the special category of bimodule functors that is suitably equivalent to it, numerics and representations of certain weak Hopf algebras. [1.25 hours]
  • 10: Adam: Skyped and discussed about the IARPA project, both about the proof and beyond surface codes. [1 hour]
  • 10: Robert K. and Mike M.: Emailed about collaborating together on the IARPA project. [1 hour]
  • 10: GeoCodes: Laid out the complete procedures for Section 7.2.2, and added a little bit to Section 7.4 (The discrete set C_K^(n_v, n_f) in Grass(K,N)). [0.75 hour]
  • 11 Xie: attended her talk on special constructions of edge SPT phases, mostly focused on those from 2D bulks, by analogy only for 3D bulk; mapping of 1D SPT phases (with different group extensions) to 2D LRE phases, both of which are classified by projective representations. [1.5 hours]
  • 11: GeoCodes: Explained to Daniel the narrative plan for Section 7. [2.25 hours]
  • 12: GeoCodes: Reviewed QIP poster. [0.5 hour]
  • 12: GeoCodes: Copied down my own notes from yesterday from the blackboard. [0.25 hour]
  • 12: GeoCodes: Worked through much of Section 7, at a coarse level. [2 hours]
• January 14-17:
  • 13: Arrived in Aspen!
  • 14: Gcat: Worked through and asked research questions for Section III.B to somewhere in Section V.B of the paper. [2 hours]
  • 14: ENOhomotopy: Read a little bit of Section 7.1 and the whole abstract. [1 hour]
  • 14: Gcat: Thought about the connections of Gcat with other people's works. [1 hour]
  • 14: Society: Started drafting a new post on Gcat and updated the About page. [0.5 hour]
  • 14: ENOhomotopy: Answered some of my own earlier questions, set up and shared my notes on ENOhomotopy. [1 hour]
  • 15: Gcat: Worked more on Section V.B (Symmetric topological gauge theory). [1 hour]
  • 16: Gcat: Finished commenting through Section V.B. [2 hours]
  • 16: Gcat poster: Started making the poster for Aspen workshop, struggled with formatting. [2 hours]
  • 17: Gcat poster: Overcomed some formatting problems, completed the layout. [5 hours]
  • 17: Gcat poster: Added contents. [3 hours]
  • 17: Gcat poster: Hand drew pictures. [0.5 hour]
  • 17: Gcat poster: Presented at Aspen. [1.5 hours]
  • 18: Sick. :-(
  • 20: Arrived in Beijing.
  • 25: Arrived in Hangzhou ... Still sick.
• January 28-March 13 (intermittent):
  • 28: GeoCodes: Edited Sections 7.0 and a large part of 7.1.1. [1.5 hour]
  • 31: Joel: Chatted about ENOhomotopy together, in particular about categorical extensions. [1 hour]
  • February 1: Ying Ran: Attended his talk and had a discussion on SET phases. [2 hours]
  • 1: Juven: Taught me about K-matrices in Chern-Simons theories. [1 hour]
  • 1: Oliver: Discussed about multi-partite entanglement measures. [1 hour]
  • 4: GeoCodes: Finished editing Section 7.1.1 and edited Section 7.1.2. [1.75 hours]
  • 5: GeoCodes: Edited Section 7.2.0 and some of 7.2.1. [0.5 hour]
  • 21: GeoCodes: Finished reading Section 7.2.1, read Sections 7.2.2 and 7.2.3.
  • 22: GeoCodes: Read Section 7.3.1 ...
  • ... (undocumented) ...
  • March 5: GeoCodes: Proofread Sections 7.4.3, 7.4.4. [3 hours]
  • 6: GeoCodes: Proofread Section 7.5.1. [1 hour]
  • 6: GeoCodes: Proofread Section 7.5.2. [0.5 hour]
  • 7: GeoCodes: Proofread Sections 7.6 and 7.7. [2 hours]
  • 7: GeoCodes: Proofread Section 5.2. [1 hour]
  • 8: GeoCodes: Proofread Sections 5.3 and 5.4. [1.5 hours]
  • 8: GeoCodes: Proofread Section 5.5.1, commented on Sections 5.5.2 and 5.5.3. [1.5 hours]
  • 9: ... (undocumented) ...
• March 14-:
  • 14: ENOhomotopy_notes: Updated Sections 2.1 and 2.2, added Section 2.1.1. [1 hour]
  • 14: Gcat abstract: for GRT Seminar. [0.5 hour]
  • 14: ENOhomotopy: Started reading Section 6.1. [0.25 hour]
  • 14: ENOhomotopy: Read Section 3.1. [0.75 hour]
  • 15: Overall life planning with discipline, finally accepted musical goals and moved onto implementation, e.g. worked out realistic daily schedule.
  • 16: GeoCodes: Proofread Section 1.3 (Plan of the paper) and cleaned up Section 9 (Conclusion). [1 hour]
  • 16: GeoCodes: Reorganized the structure of the paper some, somewhat majorly. [0.5 hour]
  • 16: GeoCodes: Proofread Section 2.1. [2 hours]
  • 16: GeoCodes: Proofread part of Section 2.2. [0.5 hour]
  • 16: Daniel: Chatted briefly about questions in Section 2 of GeoCodes. [0.5 hour]
  • ... (undocumented) ...
  • 23: GeoCodes: Finished proofreading Section 2.2 and began 2.3.
  • 24: GeoCodes: Proofread more of Section 2.3.
  • 25: Gcat: Had a longish discussion with Xiao-Gang.
  • 25: GeoCodes: Finished proofreading Section 2.3.
  • 27: GeoCodes: Started proofreading Section 3.1. [0.25 hour]
  • 28: GeoCodes: Finished proofreading Section 3.1.1. [0.5 hour]
  • 29: GeoCodes: Proofread Sections 3.1.2-3.1.4, 3.2.1-3.2.4. [2 hours]
  • 30: GeoCodes: Proofread Section 4.1.0 and started 4.1.1. [0.5 hour]
  • April 1: GeoCodes: Proofread more of Section 4.1.1. [0.25 hour]
  • April 2: GeoCodes: Finished proofreading Section 4.1.1 and began proofreading 4.1.2. [1 hour]
  • April 3: GeoCodes: Finished proofreading Section 4.1.2. [0.5 hour]
  • April 4: GeoCodes: Proofread Sections 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.2.1 and 4.1.2. [1.5 hour]
  • April 5: GeoCodes: Finished proofreading. [0.5 hour]
  • April 6: ENOhomotopy: ...

Black -- Individual work in math/physics/CS; Purple -- Scientific interactions; Light Purple -- Talks given; Green -- Papers posted.
◊ 1 hour/day; ♣ 2 hours/day; ♦ 3 hours/day; ♥ 4 hours/day; ♠ 5 hours/day; ∇ 6+ hours/day.
OR
◊ 2 sessions/week; ♣ 4 sessions/week; ♦ 6 sessions/week; ♥ 8 sessions/week; ♠ 10 sessions/week. (1 session = 3 hours)

Aim: 3 hours
none -- practice time; () -- rehearsal time; [] -- youtube time.

January 6: 1.5--0.5[1.5]--0--0--0--0--0
January 13: 0--0--0--0--0--0--0
January 20: 0--0--0--0--0--0--0
January 27: 0--0--0--0--0--0--0
February 3: 0--0--1--2--2--0--1
February 10: 2--0--0-- ...
... (mostly skipped) ...
March 10: 0--0--0--0--

Aim: Total < 3 hours; F emails < 1 short/day
none -- total usage; <> -- # of F emails sent.

January 6: 6<2>--8.5<3>--5<3>--5.25<0>--3.5<2.5>--6.5<1>--6<2>
January 13: <3>--<2>--<0>--<3>--<1>--<3>--<0>
January 20: <0>--<2>--<2>--<2>--<1>--<2>--<0>
January 27: <2>--<1>--<3>--<4>--<3>--<4>--<2>
February 3: <3>--<3>--<3>--<4>--<4>--<3>--<5>
February 10: <6>--<10>--<9>--<12>-- ...