Nuclear physics has always caught my interest, particularly nuclear fusion. Sad to say, the Five College Consortium doesn't offer many courses in this area. This is one of the sciences, in my opinion, that can advance the future technological revolution. Despite my limited knowledge of sociology, I believe that many societal issues, including hunger, warfare, and poverty, can only be resolved if there are sufficient unrestricted resources, which nuclear fusion can offer. For a sustainable future, we also need to produce dependable renewable energy, and I believe that's fusion.
As a student with many passions, I am interested in many things outside physics.
AI music composition has always been one of the technologies I wanted to implement.
Being a music producer who writes code, after performing with live coding (using code as an instrument), the idea of having an AI composer perform with me took shape in my mind.
My first implementation was using the Markov Decision Process, but the result wasn't good enough. So far, my friend and I have tried evolutionary programming and variational autoencoder, but the outcomes weren't satisfactory.
Besides, the most current working AI music composer only implements the melody, not the color or texture.
As I know analog synthesizers very well, I want to use that part of physics knowledge -- wave, to let the AI composer involve in the stage of sound design.
I am very interested in group theory in nature.
In classical harmony, we can use group theory to describe all the key changes, the circle of the fifth (fourth), the chord progressions, or counterparts.
But so far, there isn't a good group theory description of jazz harmony.
I would love to try to "mathematicalize" the contemporary jazz harmony theory.
Note: Not only the ii-V-I s'