Yourong Frank Wang

Today is Lantern Festival – the first full moon after Spring Festival / Chinese New Year. It had hardly been festive for me, and today the festivities end. Well. It’s been well said that “it does not feel like new year” isn’t the most productive approach to the matter. Children are provided with “new year feel” seated by the side of the dinner table. Adults have to construct that.

Tangyuan (lit. soup balls) are wheat we traditionally ate on this day, and I made sure to grab a pack before I came home this evening. The only remaining flavour in the store was dorian and I glossed over why the illustrations were yellow. That is beyond the point.

Tangyuan was also the name of a dynamical test case that I enjoyed playing around with, in the first year with PyUL and scalable modelling of Schroedinger-Poisson dynamics. The ground state solutions — Auckland called them Solitons — are arranged to orbit one another in a circular orbit. Small nudges would quickly send them in other chaotic unfoldings. I enjoyed watching the dynamics greatly. There was one point where Richard remarked that I spent the same order of magnitude of time visualising as computing.

I wanted to write more about the oscillatory experience of loneliness and the thrill of finally getting on track to my current (handful of) research threads. This is a microblog though.

Good night.