I am becoming rather embarassed of this relatively poorly thought-out, poorly-edited webpage. I have begun to set up a new page at my new school. Some of this content will be ported over. Feel free to look around, but don't expect me to own up to anything here!

Welcome to Dan's terribly out-of-date home page. I'm a junior at MIT, and because of that, I have very little time to keep this particular page up-to-date. Chances are that the best way to really keep appraised of anything is to take a look at my LiveJournal (I did indeed give in to the craze; it's the best way to keep up with many distant friends). With luck, this page here will soon include the two things I most want on it: my reading list of novels (and other media forms) that I consider really, truly worthwhile, and a collection of links that I think are really of useful interest. For now, however, I encourage you to take a look at my weblog, or just putter around my outdated page.

Old Stuff:

This is a page about my interests, passions, and things that I've generally enjoyed in life. It is, in a way, a page about me, but it is also a page that I hope will help others to find interesting stuff.

My other intent with this page was to make something useful. Those interested in astronomy might find some useful information in the astronomy section, or young viewers might find something useful about summer camps in the CTY and Mathcamp sections. Perhaps you'll find some great memories there, too, if you're interested. Maybe you'll find something intriguing (or just some pretty pictures) in the MARTI section. Whatever it is, I hope you enjoy it, and if you do, please e-mail me. I'm anxious to hear about it.

Talk to everyone later,

Dan

While I'm not personally sufficiently schooled in mathematics to undertake such amazing research, Woffle Theory has always fascinated me.

Some pages to look at:
• MARTI is a program that I co-wrote with Clayton Myers. The program is a ray-tracing program designed to simulate two different universes. The first is our universe, where light travels normally. The second is the "circle light" universe, which was thought up by our Mathcamp mentor, Noah Goodman. It's a "toy universe" in which light travels in circles instead of a straight path. The output of the program (a work still in progress) includes some really amazing images that make you twist your mind a new way. Lots of fun to look at.
• Astronomy is one of my favorite hobbies. I try to attack it both scientifically and observationally. Here are some of my thoughts on the topic.
• Computers and computer programming definitely also ranks among my favorite hobbies. I love to program and to work with computers, and have done a lot with them. Here I list (and offer for download) some of what I've done. I also discuss some of my other computer-related hobbies here.
• The Center for Talented Youth was a summer camp I attended in the summers of my 8th and 9th grade school years. I think this camp really changed me for the better, and so I'd like to offer a small tribute to it. I know that many others have done this, but if nothing else, I'd like to point out what others have said about the program.
• Mathcamp was a summer camp I attended in the summer of my junior year. It also changed me a lot, and so I'd like to post a tribute to it as well. While the "culture" wasn't as intense as CTY, the friendships definitely were.