Pictures

Fall 2005

Winter 2006

Passover 2006

Santa Cruz, July 2006

Best pie of Summer 2006

China, July 2007

Medellin, Colombia, July 2007

Frisbee photos

Family

Partner

• Elen Oneal

Brothers

• Ethan
• Jeremy
• Gavi
• Justin

Parents

• Ralph E. Miller
• Avis D. Miller

Ultimate Frisbee

• I play as much as I can, which usually ends up being twice a week, or so. Here in Durham, NC, it's not so remarkable to play through the winter. But even back in Minnesota, from whence I just came, we still weren't bothered by such trifles as "cold" or "snow": it's surprisingly unpainful to play outside in the middle of winter, even when it's -20 Celsius (around 0 Fahrenheit). In 2006-2007, I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the frisbee players enjoy the cold reasonably as much as Minnesotans.   The sequence of two pictures above was captured by Dan Stedman (great shots, Skip!), a General Lee teammate, at Cooler 2006, in Delafield, Wisconsin. A couple of seconds after these photos were taken, Tiffany Davis (number 01, in orange -- duh!) was already in the end zone, where she caught the continuation pass. The defender is John Fieberg, also from the Twin Cities. More Frisbee photos, mostly General Lee in 2006 and 2007, but also one Huzzah team photo.

Music

• Here is a scan and analysis of a fugue I wrote, which (faded using the image viewing program ``xv'') doubles as the background for the page you're reading. Yes, that is my handwriting -- I work with a real calligraphy pen, dipped in ink. I dream someday of having links here to more of my music, including some Baroque style dances, inventions, preludes, etc. Maybe I'd scan in the symphonic material, too. With some luck, I'd even be able to set up a link to some sort of electronic performance of some of these things.
  
  My favorite composers are Bach, Dvorak, Schubert, and Handel. Mozart is sometimes quite good, too, but usually I prefer it when he's being serious (Mass in c, Requiem in d, later symphonies, some piano concertos). Palestrina and Victoria wrote some supremely beautiful counterpoint, but I unfortunately don't own much. I do also like various kinds of rock and popular music, but my feeling is that I can listen to that nearly anywhere, when someone else is playing it for themselves. So I listen mostly to classical at home.

Biochemistry

• I did laboratory research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland for a few summers in a row in the early 90s, on gene regulation and expression in mammalian cells and yeast, and on protein interaction in yeast. I still try to keep informed on such subjects. I enjoy discussing biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and other kinds of biology with researchers, for their perspectives and for potential projects relating to mathematics. During the 2007-2008 academic year, I took part in the IMA Thematic Year on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Physics

• Toward the end of grad school, I developed a side interest in theoretical physics. I never took physics beyond high school, but knowing some requisite math makes certain kinds of physics rather accessible, as these things go (e.g., quantum mechanics = quantum field theory in zero plus one dimensions).