Nathaniel R. Reindl
I'm currently an undergraduate student of computational
and applied mathematics at Southern Illinois University at
Edwardsville.
I'm mostly interested in differential geometry and
topology and their applications in industrial robotics.
I also have an interest in applied harmonic analysis,
specifically the application to wavelet analysis. This has
interesting applications in medical imaging as well as
run of the mill image compression (e.g., JPEG 2000 uses a
somewhat configurable DWT for compression).
I also think topological quantum computing is neat, but I
don't know enough about it.
Lately, I've been doing a lot in the area of computer
graphics — naturally, given my involvement in the
demoscene — with my focus being on methods for
optimized drawing to the display of Java/MIDP devices. That
said, drawing procedurally-generated images pixel-by-pixel
is painfully slow, so I have to make a lot of use of
run-length encoding and other tricks to try to shove as much
drawing information into each method call as possible. In
the future, I may look at algorithmic music applications in
conjunction with procedurally-generated graphics.
About me
- Contact
information (if you're one of a select few people
with whom I potentially desire to share no words, namely
individuals associated with my father and his
family)
- Contact information (for
everyone else)
What am I doing?
- Distracting myself from my parents'
seemingly-never-to-finalize-even-after-almost-three-years
divorce
- Reworking parts of a 1930's Craftsman bungalow-style
house in the Metro East when money and weather permit
- Considering playing 5-string electric bass in a
St. Louis area swing jazz ensemble
- Living with the HP Pavilion tx2000 and Windows
Vista (soon to be Server 2008)
- Wishing the St. Louis area had better public transit
infrastructure and better concern for
pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly urban planning (i.e., I
don't like driving my car to the grocery two miles away
just to pick up a gallon of milk)
- Participating in the North American demoscene
- CELLULOL by Orchestra Hit (4th at Blockparty
2009, Java/MIDP on a Nokia 5310, party version
written 100% at the partyplace, final version to
follow Real Soon Now™) — Thanks to
the Northern Dragons, Necros, and Gargaj/CNS for
an awesome competition. You guys are the
best.
- Organizing the Nurupo
"NullPointerException" demoparty for
MAGFest 8
between 31 Dec 2009 and 4 January 2010 in
Alexandria, Virginia, USA. We'll have streaming
music, oldschool music, and wildcard as far as
competitions go with maybe others (e.g.,
freestyle graphics) as interest gathers.
Invitation (hopefully) to be released at Assembly
summer 2009.
- Writing a small essay on the mathematics of FM
synthesis based on interest from Jake Kaufman and Lenore
Horner
- Mathematics
- Fall 2009 M421 Linear Algebra
II
- Fall 2009 M450 Real Analysis I
- Spring 2010 M451 Complex Analysis
I
- Fall 2010 M465 Numerical
Analysis
- Fall 2010 M498 Senior Seminar
- Spring 2011 M499 Senior Thesis
- Category theory
- Categories for the Working
Mathematician by Saunders Mac Lane
(Springer-Verlag Graduate Texts in
Mathematics series)
- Applied harmonic analysis
- Illinois/Missouri Applied Harmonic
Analysis seminars...
- ... hosted by Myung-Sin Song
at Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville on 27 September
2008.
- ... hosted by Richard
Laugesen at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on
27 March 2009.
- Computational and mathematical physics
- Calculating matrix elements for an
elementary, antisymmetric model of the
fractional quantum Hall effect, with Lenore
Horner