Resume for Daniel Zaharopol

Daniel Zaharopol
259 St. Paul St.
Brookline, MA 02446
danz@mit.edu
(617) 734 - 9211
http://web.mit.edu/danz/www

Education:
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Degree anticipated in May, 2004 in Mathematics

Goals:
	A research position for the summer in mathematics or theoretical computer science, ideally beginning late Spring term or running into Fall term, but with a break for other summer commitments (specifically Mathcamp). A UROP, thesis, or something else to fill my time would all be ideal.

Classes:
	Mathematics:	Current term: 18.405/6.841 (Advanced Complexity Theory), 18.950 (Differential Geometry), 18.103 (Lebesgue Integration and Fourier Series), 18.510 (Logic and Set Theory). Prior terms: 18.705 (Commutative Algebra), 18.112 (Complex Analysis), 18.404/6.840 (Theory of Computation), 18.701/18.702 (Algebra), 18.904 (Seminar in Algebraic Toplogy), 18.901 (Topology), 18.100B (Analysis). Also Operations Research at Binghamton University.
	Computer Science:	Current term: 18.405/6.841 (Advanced Complexity Theory). Prior terms: 18.404/6.840 (Theory of Computation), 6.001 (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs). Also Intermediate Programming in C++, Introduction to Interactive Multimedia at Johns Hopkins University.
	Physics:	Prior terms: 8.04 (Quantum Mechanics I), 8.03 (Waves and Optics), 8.012/8.022 (Physics with theory).
	Other:	Various classes in acting and writing; also introductory chemistry and biology.

Computer Skills:

Languages: C++, Java, Mathematica, HTML, Scheme, Pascal, BASIC

Fluent with Windows 95/98, Borland C++ Builder, GNU C++. Familiar with Unix/Linux and Visual C++ 6.0.

Graphical/layout experience: Fluent with Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, Quark XPress, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, and Macromedia Director 6.5 and above (for creating both programs and Shockwave).

Experience:

Teaching: 6.001 (MIT introductory computer science class) Recitation Instructor for ESG section.

Counselor: Mathcamp 2001 and 2002, a summer program for mathematically talented high school students. As a junior counselor, in addition to standard tasks for keeping the camp running, and helping with the social situation, taught classes in computer science (a class on finite automata/languages/Turing machines as well as algorithmic complexity), ray tracing/computer graphics, and a guest lecture in a discrete mathematics class on graph theory.

Educational Studies Program at MIT. Two ten-week courses, one an introduction to higher mathematics, and one an introduction to computer algorithms. Several classes for a weekend-long programs, "What's Cool About Math," "Introduction to Astronomy," "Visualizing Our World: Ray Tracing & Computer Graphics." SAT Prep classes. Also several classes at Stanford Educational Studies Program, an offshoot of the MIT program.

Tutoring at both the high school level and college level in C++ programming.

Leadership: Educational Studies Program at MIT. Chair, 12/01-; Publicity Chair, 4/01-12/01; Director, High School Studies Program, Spring 2001 & 2002.

Member, board of trustees, MIT Community Service Fund.

Projects and Research:

REACH, Research Experiences in Algebraic Combinatorics at Harvard, with Professor Jim Propp, fall term 2002. At this program, I worked on the problem of finding an efficient algorithm to tile a region of hexagonal tiles with certain tiles of size 3.

Mathematics UROP for professor Anne Schilling at MIT; during the summer of 2001. See also proposal. Project consisted of creating Mathematica program to examine various test cases.

Programmer for the Synthetic Characters group at the MIT Media Lab. Work on the Alpha Wolf project during January 2001.

MARTI, MAthcamp Ray Trace Implementation (http://web.mit.edu/danz/www/marti), a ray tracing program to simulate a universe in which light travels differently.

Astronomy CD-ROM in Macromedia Director for class at Johns Hopkins.

Scholarships and Awards:

Score of 40 on the 2001 Putnam Exam, with national rank of 164.

On 2002 MIT team to the COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM); received score of "Meritorious."

Finalist in the USA Computing Olympiad, 1999 (http://usaco.uwp.edu). One of 14 high school students selected nationally for a week-long training program for the International Olympiad in Informatics.

Received ranking of "National Outstanding" (highest possible) in the COMAP High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling as part of the Vestal Senior High School team.

National Merit Finalist

Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship

Vestal Dollars for Scholars Scholarship

Personal Reading:

Bits and pieces of Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms by Cox, Little, and O'Shea, Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik, Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Geometry of Surfaces by John Stillwell, various other math and computer science books. As well as plenty of fiction.

Leadership Experience:

Chair and various other positions (Educational Studies Program), MIT Orientation Leader (introducing new freshmen to the institute), New Member Orientation Leader (Epsilon Theta Fraternity), Treasurer (Epsilon Theta Fraternity), Historian (Epsilon Theta), Music Librarian (Epsilon Theta), high school clubs including Astronomy and Computer Groups (president), Mock Trial (lawyer), and school paper (Editor-in-Chief)