ITT: post what your research involves

[Anonymous No.7376520]

My research involves applying functional genomic approaches to the study of pediatric brain tumours. I am interested in applying novel genetic animal models to explore the initiation and maintenance events in cancer. If we can understand how tumours arise and the pathways that regulate their growth, perhaps then we can find therapies that can eradicate them. In the long run, I hope to pursue a career as a clinician-scientist in an academic-based hospital.

[Anonymous No.7376534]

>>7376520
> goal being eradicate tumors

Are we sure that all tumors of the brain are bad? What if there is an old stone aged monkey-part of the brain we would be better off without?

[Anonymous No.7376536]

>>7376520
Undergrad here (so bottom-tier research assistant, but whatever)

I work under one of our astrophysics professors researching magnetohydromics of stars and such.

[Anonymous No.7376566]

>>7376520
Oh, sorry I forgot to post my field. Signal Processing, Here's a video of popular test image Lena being packed 1-100 times.

[Anonymous No.7376570]

>>7376566
This method uses wavelets and zero tree coding and 7z entropy coding. Hope to improve it by pre-processing and/or post-processing mathematical optimization.

[Anonymous No.7376575]

Molecullar dynamics simulations on the sedimentary stability of gas hydrates. Basically I fuck around with programs and my own code to see what happens in different scenarios.

[Anonymous No.7376639]

solvent-solute interaction energies as a contributing factor to the colligative properties and geometric structures of hydration complexes.

[Anonymous No.7376647]

Spiking Neural network models.

[Anonymous No.7376651]

Whether or not consuming a sizable amount of jizz on a daily basis will give me superpowers

[Anonymous No.7376732]

Infinitely sized graphs in graph theory.

[Anonymous No.7376734]

>>7376732
That's OP's research. Are you working together?

[Anonymous No.7376742]

>>7376734
Meant for>>7376651

[Anonymous No.7376744]

My current research involves why Indian students cause lecture halls and libraries to smell of curry.

[Anonymous No.7376749]

>>7376742
OP isn't an engineer

[Anonymous No.7376752]

>>7376534
Not how that works
>>7376536
Neat
>>7376566
Biomedical signal processing here.

[Anonymous No.7377200]

Bump

[Anonymous No.7377213]

>>7376732
I really like that topic, can you elaborate more?

[Anonymous No.7377228]

Immortality.

[Anonymous No.7377229]

Organic synthesis, specifically carbohydrate chemistry

[Anonymous No.7377379]

>>7377229
Biochemistry?

[Anonymous No.7377603]

>>7376744
You're a fucking idiot

[chemfag !Hzum9Tvcag No.7377614]

I work on developing lignin-based polymeric systems using commercially available lignin streams, with a specific focus on understanding lignin-polymer compatibilities.
>I try and make plastics from trees and grass and shit

[OHP No.7377626]

Still working on my theory of hodological spaces, although I have added a rather simple axiom that makes the category of these spaces particularly well-behaved (they now form an abelian category, so we can build a cohomology theory around them). I am starting to look at the products of Isbell-dual categories to see what sorts of structures arise, because I think autoduality is going to turn out to be rather important in the future of mathematics and theoretical physics.

[Anonymous No.7377634]

>>7377626
Can you give me a primer on hodological spaces? I've never heard the topic before.

[OHP No.7377681]

>>7377634
I haven't published on it yet. I just started writing a paper on them.

Call P the first-order theory with one added binary relation ~ (read it as "intersects"), with axioms {for all A (A~A), for all A for all B (A~B iff B~A), there exists 0 st (for all A (A~0))}. We will call any model of P a hodological space.

The moral way of looking at these models is as collections of paths with data saying how they intersect. The motivation for this construction comes from the notion that the paths in a space are what we usually care about, not necessarily specific points. So, for hodological spaces, points are instead defined as exactly those paths whose subpaths are necessarily equal to them.

Paths are equal if they intersect all of the same paths, and a path A is a subpath of a path B if A~X => B~X for all X (equality of paths can be versed as A being a subpath of B and B being a subpath of A).

The collection of maps of the unit interval into any given topological space S can be seen as the space of paths in S, and intersection is given in the usual way. From this, any topological space gives rise to a hodological space, but the converse is not usually true.

Some exotic hodological spaces that are nontopological are spaces where you cannot travel arbitrarily long distances. Even in a compact topological space, so long as it is not the point, there are an infinitude of paths that can be taken through the space.

The downside to removing so much structure from topological spaces is that a lot of tools from algebraic topology are lost (a notable example being that hodological spaces do not always have fundamental groups).

My goal is to flesh out the theory a good deal more, and then start doing cohomology with them. By adding the existence of a "null path" that every other path intersects, we have that the null space containing just that path is a zero object in the corresponding category, and also gives rise to both kernels and cokernels. (Continued.)

[OHP No.7377701]

(>>7377681)
I have already defined products, coproducts, equalizers, and coequalizers, and have thus shown (using the aforementioned zero object) that the category of hodological spaces is bicomplete. There is no subobject classifier, and exponentials do not often exist in the category.

Aside form the cohomology theory I mentioned, these spaces will perhaps be useful in approaching problems with resource constraints from a spatial perspective in a way that topological spaces never could. Regardless of potential applications, I find these spaces quite exciting!

[Anonymous No.7378117]

>>7376752
Not how it works, you want to explain what you mean? You want to know how it works?

[Anonymous No.7378685]

>>7376749
Irrelevant. Here's a crude illustration of what I mean.

[Anonymous No.7378737]

>>7376520
Sup OP, good luck on a productive career.

I had an MRI and it checked out OK apparently, but I notice there's a white blob on the left occipital lobe, about the size of a quarter. Since none of the docs said anything, I'm assuming it's fine, but what could it be?

[Anonymous No.7378743]

>>7376520
>tfw need to do an undergrad thesis
>bio/psych major
The fuck do I even do
fuck I am so fucked

[Anonymous No.7379189]

>>7378737
It could be a piece of electronics implanted at your birth. Sorry you should find out this way, anon. But you most likely are part of a mind-reading experiment.

[Anonymous No.7379192]

>>7376520
One word OP

Aspirin

Think about it.

[Anonymous No.7379199]

>>7379192
I think the tumor got his fear center knocked out so there's no use.

[Anonymous No.7379662]

>>7378743
My senior thesis was a literature review of a neuroscience topic that interested me the most.

[Anonymous No.7382131]

I'm just an enthusiast.