BREAKING: 2016 Physics Nobel Prize
The winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics have just been announced. Three scientists, all born in the UK, and all working in the USA, share the award.
What makes me particularly excited is that the work which got them the prize is really at the boundary of mathematics and physics... Broadly speaking, on the math side, topology is involved, i.e. beautiful stuff close to what @complexring does :-), and on the physics side, their studies have very concrete implications for materials science, in particular regarding our understanding of exotic states of matter (superconductors, superfluids and thin magnetic films).
Building bridges across communities and domains of knowledge is the most exciting and fruitful human activity, as far as I am concerned, and a great antidote for racism and bigotry.
I didn't know this was close to @complexring's field. What is it exactly?
I think @complexring focuses on algebraic geometry. Not topology as such, but close enough :-)
Technically, applied algebraic geometry (which sounds like an oxy-moron). But it's the overlay of things like Algebraic Statistics, Tensor Decomposition, Matrix Multiplication, and Numerical and Symbolic Solutions to Polynomial Systems -- which is what worked on, particularly the numerical aspect -- and if you don't think numerical solutions are good enough, I suggest you look into Alpha Theory!
I see. Oxy-moron is absolutely brilliant :-)