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Computer Science
Contributions I've made to computer programming or software engineering.
Mathematics Research
Papers I've written about various mathematics topics. My research interests here tend to be in graph theory, especially graph labellings.
- From the Even Cycle Mystery to the L-Matrix Problem and Beyond (HTML)
Masters Thesis, University of Washington, June, 1996.
- Kevin Brown's Most Wanted List:
Collaborative Virtual Environments
Papers I've written about collaborative virtual environments.
- Network Places (HTML)
Popular introduction to the concept of network places.
- The AstroVR Collaboratory, An On-line Multi-User Environment for Research in Astrophysics (HTML, Postscript)
Dave Van Buren, Pavel Curtis, David Nichols, Michael Brundage. Presented at ADASS IV; published in ASP Conference Series, Vol. 77, 1995; eds.: R.A. Shaw et al.
Astrophysics Research
I'm not an astronomer, and I don't play one on TV. Nevertheless, I strangely have a couple of astrophysics papers.
Dr. Dave "planet seeker" Van Buren has included me in some observations looking for companions of nearby Gliese stars. Nothing yet, but we're still looking. Through this project, I got to observe on both the Palomar 200" and Keck II telescopes. If you ever have the chance to see the insides of these huge telescopes, don't pass up the opportunity! This was a lot of fun.
- 10 Micron Search for Cool Companions of Nearby Stars (abstract and reprint)
Dave Van Buren, Michael Brundage, Michael Ressler, and Susan Terebey. Presented at AAS 192nd meeting; published in The Astronomical Journal, Vol 116, nr 4, October, 1998.
The radiative transfer simulation software Dave and I put together was used by his wife, Susan Terebey, in her proposal for time on the Hubble Space Telescope to look at protoplanetary evolution. Among the many observations she made is what appears to be the first optical image of a planet (TMR-1C) outside our solar system. The media made a big deal out of it. (She appeared on CNN, all the morning shows, and even in newspapers in Germany where I was when the media storm erupted. I think I'm still not allowed to talk to reporters about this one.).
- A Candidate Protoplanet in the Taurus Star Forming Region (abstract and preprint)
Susan Terebey, Dave Van Buren, T. Hancock, D. L. Padgett, Michael Brundage. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol 507, nr 1, part 2, November, 1998.
I also have written a few online docs, including:
Emerging Software Development Practices
Viewgraphs from a series of talks I started at IPAC on emerging trends in software development and other related topics.
- 21 May, 1998, Michael Brundage:
Collaborative Virtual Environments (HTML)
- 30 April, 1998, Dave Van Buren:
The Unified Modelling Language and Design Patterns (HTML, 17 slides)
- 16 April, 1998, Michael Brundage:
Java Networking (10 slides, not yet available)
- 12 March, 1998, Michael Brundage:
The Java Class Libraries
- 26 February, 1998, Michael Brundage:
The Java Language and Virtual Machine
- 12 February, 1998, Michael Brundage:
Design by Contract and Object-Oriented Programming (HTML, 16 slides)
- 29 January, 1998, Michael Brundage:
The Design and Construction of Radiative Transfer (HTML, 12 slides)
UW Math Seminar notes
Notes from the Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics Seminars that I took while a graduate student in the Mathematics Department of the University of Washington (Seattle, WA).
- 8 November, 1995, Michael Brundage:
Holographic Memory (Postscript, slide 1, 2, 3, 4)
- 21 June, 1995, Jan Kratochvil:
Intersection Graphs (Postscript)
- 28 June, 1995, Beifang Chen:
Linear Conditions on f-Vectors of Polyhedra (Postscript)
- 5 July, 1995, Jürgen Richter-Gebert:
Realization Spaces of 4-Polytopes are Universal (Postscript)
- 12 July, 1995, Branko Grünbaum:
Geometry, Algebra, and Analysis of Polygons (Postscript)
- 19 July, 1995, Jaroslav Nesetril:
Coloring of Geometrical Configurations (Postscript)
- 26 July, 1995, Moshe Rosenfeld:
The Icosahedron, the Great Icosahedron, Graph Designs, and Hadamard Matrices (Postscript)
- 2 August, 1995, Victor Klee:
Apollonius Revisited: Supporting Spheres for Sundered Systems (Postscript)
- 9 August, 1995, Heidi Burgiel:
Realizations of Regular Maps (Postscript)
- 4 October, 1995, Jason Rush:
Sphere Packing in Dimensions 1-24 (Postscript)
- 18 October, 1995, Brian Ruud:
The Genus of a Graph (Postscript)
- 23 October, 1995, Speaker Unknown (from Uni-Bielefeld):
Orbifolds (Postscript)
- 20 November, 1995, Hunter Snevily:
An Info Commercial (Postscript)
- 29 November, 1995, James King:
Uses of Geometry Software: Geometer's Sketchpad and Cabri (Postscript)
The Future of Mathematics Communication
Notes from a conference I attended at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI, Berkeley, CA), 30 November - 3 December, 1994. This is where I first learned about Oak and Webrunner, which eventually became Java and HotJava.
- 30 November - 3 December, 1994
The Future of Mathematics Communication (HTML, 7 pages)
Other Publications
When I was a student at Caltech, I helped draft their hazing policy (with letter to students). I also published and contributed to an edition of the Caltech Honor System booklet.
Being involved in the discovery of TMR-1C has gotten my name into a lot of weird places, such as the UFO Folklore Center and .
Once upon a time, I started the first online fan page for Whiteheart. I passed this on to the official Whiteheart FAQ, once the band got online.
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