2012 Fall Thesis Research

Definition: Fall 2012 means September-December 2011.
This page includes: Progress log | Tasks at a glance

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

• September 25-October 1:
  • 25: Davydov: Reread the abstract and a little bit of Section 2, absent-mindedly. [2 hours]
  • 25: DMNO: Started reading Section 1 (Introduction). [1 hour]
  • 26: DMNO: Finished reading Section 1. [0.25 hour]
  • 27: ENO1: Reread the abstract. [0.25 hour]
  • 28: ENO1: Reread some of Section 1 (Introduction). [0.25 hour]
  • 29: ENO1: Finished rereading Section 1 and began reading Section 2 (Results on squared norms, global dimensions, weak Hopf algebras, and Ocneanu rigidity). [1 hour]
  • 30: ENO1: Finished reading intro to Section 2, read Section 2.1 (Squared norms and global dimensions). [1.5 hours]
  • 1: ENO1: Read Sections 2.2 (Results on pivotal, spherical, and modular categories) and 2.3 (Module categories, the dual category, the Drinfeld center). [1.5 hours]
• November 1:
  • 1: Xiao-Gang: suggested adding my Masters unpublished work to my thesis-related research, and emphasized examples and concrete models, say based on Z_n, in thesis.

Black -- Individual work in math/physics/CS; Purple -- Scientific interactions; Light Purple -- Talks given; Green -- Papers posted.
◊ 0.5 hour/day; ♣ 1 hour/day; ♦ 1.5 hours/day; ♥ 2 hours/day; ♠ 2.5 hours/day; ∇ 3+ hours/day.