EAGER: CiC: A String Cartography

EAGER：CiC：字符串制图

• 批准号: 1048082
• 负责人: Brent Nelson
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1048082&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; CiC; String; Cartography

This project focuses on string theory, a leading candidate for unifying particle physics with gravity. The proposal aims to characterize features of the typical string compactification by applying algebraic geometry to study topological invariants of manifolds and to search for correlations between these data and structures relevant to model building, both in particle physics and cosmology. This research is of interest to an interdisciplinary community of theoretical physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists. Researchers in this project are highly involved with the NSF-sponsored String Vacuum Project the results of this research are expected to cross-fertilize that endeavor. The software employed for computational algebraic geometry is publicly available, and the project involves several algorithmic improvements that can be incorporated into future versions of these codes. All computations are to be ported and developed for use in the Microsoft Azure platform.This award corresponds to the Computing in the Cloud competition and is co-funded by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

该项目的重点是弦理论，弦理论是统一粒子物理与重力的主要候选者。该提案旨在通过应用代数几何研究流形的拓扑不变量来表征典型弦紧化的特征，并在粒子物理学和宇宙学中寻找这些数据和与模型构建相关的结构之间的相关性。这项研究引起了理论物理学家、数学家和计算机科学家的跨学科社区的兴趣。 该项目的研究人员高度参与了美国国家科学基金会资助的弦真空项目，这项研究的结果预计将有助于这一努力。用于计算代数几何的软件是公开可用的，该项目涉及多项算法改进，可以合并到这些代码的未来版本中。所有计算都将被移植和开发以在 Microsoft Azure 平台中使用。该奖项对应于云计算竞赛，由数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同资助。