2020 Summer Research

Definition: Summer 2020 means May-August 2020.
This page includes: Progress log | Tasks at a glance

Black -- Writing; Purple -- Reading; Green -- Thinking; Light Purple -- Face/Mind Bumping; Blue -- Dreaming/Locations/Non-science

• May 8 (Friday) [0.5 hour]
  • 8: Emailed Jacob: to initiate a discussion. [0.5 hour]
• May 11-13 (Monday-Wednesday) [1.75 hours]
  • 11: Research notes: Rewrote and re-derived variations of domain wall B operators, and thought about organization and conventions. [0.75 hour]
  • 12: Email exchange with Tobias: Discussed about the domain wall operator expressions and reorganization, and invited Tobias to join in on the upcoming discussion with Jacob. [0.75 hour]
  • 13: Email exchange with Jacob: Arranged discussion time. [0.25 hour]
• May 18-22 (Monday-Friday) [7.25 hours]
  • 18: Paper Jacob #3: Read a tiny bit of the abstract. [0.25 hour]
  • 19: Papers Jacob #2-#4: Read their abstracts, and read more into Paper #2. [1.75 hours]
  • 19: Online meeting with Jacob and Tobias. [1 hour]
  • 20: Paper Jacob #4: Started reading in detail. [1 hour]
  • 21: Paper Jacob #4: Continued to read in detail. [1.25 hours]
  • 22: Paper Jacob #4: Continued to read in detail, up to page 3, and asked some basic questions to Daniel. [2 hours]
• May 24, 26-29 (Sunday, Tuesday-Friday) []
  • 24: Email exchange with Tobias: Responded to his points about Paper Jacob #3, and decided to pursue Point 2. [0.25 hour]
  • 26: Research notes: Thought about definition of a general point defect, and wrote down the axioms for bimodules in research notes. [1 hour]
  • 26: Email exchange with Tobias: Worried about the loss of PD. [0.25 hour]
  • 27: Research notes: Thought about definition of a general point defect with good progress, and jotted down some research notes. [2 hours]
  • 27: Emailed Tobias: with current progress and obstacles. (Email was mostly drafted as I did my thinking.) [0.25 hour]
  • 28: Emailed Tobias: Followed up briefly on my last email. [0.25 hour]
  • 29:
• Later:
  • ??: Book Riehl: Reviewed questions and did some exercises from Section 1.2 (Duality). []
  • ??: Book Riehl: Reviewed some examples and all questions from Section 1.3 (Functoriality). []

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
◊ 4-7 hours/week; ♣ 8-11 hours/week; ♦ 12-15 hours/week; ♥ 16-19 hours/week; ♠ 20-23 hours/week; ∇ 24+ hours/week.
(assuming 4-ish workdays a week)