I am currently a third-year graduate student at the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The best way to reach me is by e-mail at yshapiro(at)math.mit.edu. You can also send mail to yshapiro(at)mit.edu . My mailing address is
Here are some Java applets that draw the Julia and Mandelbrot sets for various maps of the complex plane.
This summer (i.e. in 2006) I'm trying to hike in New Hampshire's White Mountains more or less every Sunday, unless the weather is terrible. Here are some pictures from those hikes:
A hike on Mount Garfield on June 18, 2006.
A hike on Mount Kinsman on June 25, 2006.
I had to cancel a hike on Mount Carrigain on July 2 because of bad weather.
This page was last updated on July 5, 2006.