A road named NoNameUno

About a month ago, local nightly news channel flushed out a message about "Finding the structure of Lie Group", often they are called E8 group. But it did not repeat the news again, since there are lots of more important news that targeted audience is supposed to watch. Fair enough, publicity and profitablity are interlinked, and we all know it...

What is so great about it?. It's a huge amout of computations, unparallel to lot of other computations we are used to so far. It took an organized approach by a team of mathematicians and computer scientists. The team, and American Mathematical Institute thinks it is a fundamental achievement in basic research. And it is going to help particularly the String Theory community. The community is engaged in an alternative way think physics and physical phenomena. I'm out of even basic physics for quite some time, I will pass it ...

This research will also spring up lot of thinking about parallel computations, distributed computations, algorithmic analysis etc., etc. And right around the same time I found another interesting project that has to do with Genome analysis in a distributed way. Both project have their main offices with couple miles of each other. The name of the project is GPU Folding. This projects aim is to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. The data gathered from this effort helps scientists better understand the development of many diseases, including Alzheimer's, BSE (aka Mad cow disease), some cancers, Huntington's Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, and other aggregation-related diseases.

If you don't know, Category Theory ( an advance topic in Abstract algebra), and Galois Fields ( fields of finite polynomials) are two fundamental areas of research for Cryptography as well as computer languges ( functional languages) that are more amenable to formal proof of programs.

So this kind of progress may help other areas of wedlock between Theory and Applications.