About
I am a software engineer currently based in Cambridge, UK. Contact me at alexander@inclem.net.
I was previously (up to mid-2018) a postgraduate student then postdoc in theoretical physics at the University of Bristol. My academic publications and other activities include:
Scientific Publications
2018: Universal statistics of vortex tangles in three-dimensional random waves
Alexander Taylor, J Phys A 51, 075202 (2018)
2017: Analysis of Quantised Vortex Tangle
Alexander Taylor. Analysis of Quantised Vortex Tangle. Springer, 2017.
My thesis was published as a book as part of the Springer Theses series, recognizing outstanding Ph.D. research, following a nomination for this prize by the University of Bristol.
2017: Proteins analysed as virtual knots
Keith Alexander, Alexander J Taylor and Mark R Dennis, Scientific Reports 7, 42300 (2017)
2016: Vortex knots in tangled quantum eigenfunctions
Alexander J Taylor and Mark R Dennis, Nature Communications 7, 12346 (2016)
2015: PhD Thesis: Analysis of Quantised Vortex Tangle
Accepted May 2015.
2014: Geometry and scaling of tangled vortex lines in three-dimensional random wave fields
Alexander J Taylor and Mark R Dennis, J Phys A 47, 465101 (2014)
Selected for inclusion in the Journal of Physics A Highlights of 2014 collection.
Cover image for J Phys A 47 (46).
Conferences and Presentations
2017 APS March Meeting, New Orleans, USA
Contributed presentation: Stability of knotted vortices in wave chaos
Session K17: Knotting in Filaments and Fields
2016 Probabilistic Methods in Spectral Geometry and PDE, CRM, Montreal, Canada
Invited presentation: Geometry and topology of vortices in random quantum eigenfunctions
2016 Knots in Hellas, Ancient Olympia, Greece
Contributed presentation: Virtual knotting in protein chains
2016 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madrid, Spain
Invited seminar: Geometry and topology of vortices in random quantum eigenfunctions
2016 APS March Meeting, Baltimore, USA
Contributed presentation: Complexity of knotting in chaotic 3D eigenfunctions
Session V43: Wave Chaos: Theory and Applications
2016 University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Invited seminar (the JFI Theory Seminar): Knots in random waves
2015 Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems, Bad Herrenalb, Germany
Contributed presentation: Geometry and topology of vortices in random quantum eigenfunctions
2015 APS March Meeting, San Antonio TX, USA
Contributed presentation: Geometry and topology of tangled vortices in wave chaos
Session Q8: Wave Chaos: Theory and Applications
2014 Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Warsaw, Poland
Poster: Topology of dark tangles in light
2014 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Guest speaker seminar: Topology of quantised vortex tangle
2014 APS March Meeting, Denver, USA
Contributed presentation: Knotting of vortex tangle in three-dimensional random waves
Session S35: Vortices, Solitons and Driven Systems
2014 Physics Colloquium, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Contributed talk in the annual postgraduate colloquium, which consists of talks by three postgraduates elected from those in their final year of PhD study: Topology of quantised vortex tangle
2013 International Workshop on Singularities and Topological Structures of Light, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Contributed presentation: Topology of quantised vortex tangle
Recipient of Oral Presentation Award from the Optical Society of America
2013 International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum, Glasgow, UK
Poster: Topology of dark tangles in light
2012 Quantised Flux in Tightly Knotted and Linked Systems, Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
Poster: Topology of dark tangles in light
2012 IOP conference “Photon12”, Durham University, UK
Poster: Topology of dark tangles in light
2012 Physics by the Sea (summer school), St Bees, Cumbria, UK
Poster and short presentation: Knots in random fields
2012 Knotted Fields Miniprogram (1 month), Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Santa Barbara CA, USA
Invited short presentation: Knots in random fields
This site
This is my blog about my personal projects and interests, especially as a core developer of the cross-platform Kivy graphical framework for Python. I’m particularly involved in maintaining the python-for-android APK packaging tool, which supports multiple types of Python apps (not just Kivy!). I originally made this site to host my series of video tutorials that turned out to be quite popular.
These pages are constructed using Pelican, a static website generator for Python. The source is all publicly available on github.
Contact
My email address is alexander@inclem.net. Communications are welcomed.