Dan Gareau

Moses Brown School, Attended 1982 - 1995, Class of 1995

University of Vermont, Oregon Health and Sciences University (stud. bod. pres. '03-'05)

Oregon Health Sciences University, Attended 2003 - 2006, Class of 2006, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, Attended 2000 - 2002, Class of 2002, Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering
University of Vermont, Attended 1996 - 1999, Class of 1999, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Minors: Music, Physics

Scientist, ask me questions!

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Oregon Medical Laser Center, the Alaska Coalition of Oregon, Vermont Transit, Camp Fuller, Windridge Tennis Camp

Optical Feng Shui, The Human Brain, Eye Contact, Evolution, Revolution, Revelation, Relativity, Elevation, Longevity, Consciousness, Subconsciousness, Concentration, Data Collection, Symmetry, Asymmetry, Spatio-Timevariant Electromagnetic Field Analysis, anything having to do with the greatest compound on earth: Water, Biochemistry, Fractal Geometry, Biking, Hiking, Dancing, Recycling, Roller Bladeing in Central Park, Fishing, Swimming, Snowboarding, Nice Cloths, Hot Tubs w/ Good Jets, Breathing in Saunas, Onion.com, Windsurfing, Sailing, People Watching, Museums: member @ Met, AMNH & MoMA, Blingy Gemstones, Live Music (especially good classical), Playing Guitar, Bass, Piano and now Viola, Reading, Learning Anatomy, Yoga (Hatha & Kundalini), Bowling (10-pin), Social Experimentation, Sweating, Sushi and Indian food, Avocados (w/squirt of lime and pinch of salt), Garlic, Chewing Gum, Photography & Other Types of Imaging, Spinning Records, Tennis, flying in my dreams

The Elegant Universe, The Little Prince, The Fountianhead, The Tipping Point, Temperment, A Wrinkle in Time, life of Pi, Pretty much anything from Shakespeare to Larouche, Scientific articles about crazy schnizzit you probably don't understand (and it's a good thing too, because if you did I'd call you a dork ..... wait a minute) Dan Brown books are my guilty pleasure because I don't have time to read them but I do anyway because I'm hooked on litcrack.

The Pink Panther (circa 1963), King Kong, Indianna Jones, Wizard of Oz, Crash, Undercover Brother, X-men, Troy, Real Genius, Better off Dead, Evil Dead, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, This is Spinal Tap, Star Wars, What About Bob, Waking Life, Koyaanisqatsi, Anchorman, Garden State, Sixteen Candles, Back to the Future, Ghost Busters, Napoleon D., Breakin & Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo, You Got Served, Mallrats, Shine...

Phish, Dahlia, Rachmaninoff, Spinal Tap, Jackson 5, Prince, U2, Climber, Zap Mama, Zappa, Postal Service, Decemberists, Gloria Estefan, Bjork, Ani Difranco, Tory Amos, Tribe Called Quest, Manu Chao, Theivery Corp., Jamiroquai, Morcheeba, St. Germaine, Kanye West, Harry C. Jr., Tupac, Dave Matthews, Ben Harper, Damien Rice, Bella Fleck, Raq, Floristan Trio, Madonna, NIRVANA, ACDC, 70-Volt Parade, Moe, Concrete Blonde, The Grateful Dead, String Cheese Incident, Snoop Dog, Bestie Boys, Stones, Who, Clapton, P. Floyd, Jimi, Zepplin, Shock_G from Digital Underground, Norah Jones, Sade, Atmosphere, G. Love, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Pato Benton, Mark Farina, Deftones, Digable Planets, De La Soul, John Mayer, Euromotion, David Bowie, Tim Reynolds, Bruce Hornsby, Danay Warhols, Cranberries, Edie Brickell, Ween, Alanis Morrissette, The Police, Morcheeba, the Beetles, Yoyo Ma, Gypsie Kings

... don't have one but I used to watch Sledge Hammer as a kid ....

Capricorn

Hmm about me ... I am alive, very alive. I'm about 70% water. I strive to live like I'm going to die tomorrow and learn like I'm going to live forever. I have a child-like sense of wonder and adult-like OCD. I don't feel anger at all. I have distain for the untested hypothesis and dirty optics. I try to eat good foods, breathe deeply and appreciate good music. I have a big problem with clear cuts. I have a PhD in biomedical laser engineering. I tend to feel the feelings of others intensely, acting as an emotional weathervane. As years of accumulated crust break away from me, exposing layers of my soul, which melt into the world around me, I extend beond my physical body, it's heavy. I'm affected by music and emotions. I am willing to forget everything and hyperfocus on the moment with an intensity that many people don't get, it's intense concentration. I am impressed by the simple yet profound. I try to practice benevolence. I must not erase what I feel for convenience because I would rather live in painful truth than ignorant bliss. I have intense visions in my dreams and when I close my eyes. In one of them that recurs, huge crystals collide in space and fragment into sub-crystals which themselves collide and fragment silently. In another, electric green palm trees wave in the wind on the tan background of the desert. I don't know where these visions come from but I have some ideas. Basically, I am living in a fractal world and I'm trying to understand it. I'm sure that a fractal-geometrical analysis could offer a simpler and more elegant solution to nature's apparent chaos than the Cartesian status quo. Fractal geometry is tough though and I'm trying to work on that :)


I develop microscopes with lasers and disco balls to detect cancer earlier


I'd go Vinilla over Cinnemon

People who ask good questions. People who aren't afraid to take risks or make sacrifices in order to create the change they wish to see in the world.


A flute or violin player to lay down a track on my latest classical composition. It's called "Untitled." Download it at http://www.bme.ogi.edu/~gareau/CLASIC.HTML If you think it's lame and sounds like a generic movie soundtrack, that's because it's waiting for you to spice it up!


Tennis players.