EAGER: CiC: A String Cartography

这个项目的重点是弦理论，它是将粒子物理学与引力统一起来的领先候选者。该方案的目的是通过应用代数几何来研究流形的拓扑不变量，并寻找这些数据与粒子物理和宇宙学中与模型建立相关的结构之间的关联，来表征典型的弦紧化的特征。理论物理学家、数学家和计算机科学家组成的跨学科社区对这项研究很感兴趣。该项目的研究人员高度参与了美国国家科学基金会赞助的弦真空项目，这项研究的结果有望对这一努力产生交叉影响。用于计算代数几何的软件是公开可用的，该项目涉及几个算法改进，这些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用于Microsoft Azure平台。该奖项与云中计算竞赛相对应，由数学和物理科学局多学科活动办公室共同资助。

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.