About Me

My name is Dylan Green, and I am an Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. You can email me at dylangreen [at] lbl [dot] gov. This is my personal and professional site, but to nobody’s surprise I am more than just a physicist. Let me give you an overview of some of my hobbies.

I enjoy spending some of my free time programming, and using these side projects to learn new concepts or programming languages. The largest and most complex project I’ve worked on is my chess engine, Chrysaora. Chrysaora is written in Nim, and uses a neural network composed of fully connected layers that are trained using reinforcement learning. I plan to revisit the project in the near future and rewrite the project in a more flexible language with better support for both machine learning and mathematics, as I have some unique ideas I’d like to test.

I formerly served as one of two hosts on a variety of podcasts, all of which can be found at decorativevegetable.com. My cohost and I used to release weekly episodes about Doctor Who as well as classic Science Fiction television. At one point we would write blog posts on a weekly basis about various science fiction or adjacent topics. My current favourite post that I’ve written discusses the third season of Torchwood from the perspective of the first contact archetype. It’s great fun and both of us take pride in the shows. All of the shows are currently on hiatus, as my co-host has taken other responsibilities with his time and my time is currently dedicated to my research. We may return in the future.

If time permits I also engage in some analog photography, which means I shoot photos on 35mm film. I use a Canon FtB, and generally shoot whatever film I have available. The photo of the Mayall 4-meter on this page was taken on Ultramax 400 during my observing shift in December of 2019. On occasion I will upload some photos to my flickr account.

Hobbies that do not necessarily have a web home but that I enjoy, and would love to discuss with anyone interested include philately (the study and collection of stamps) and watching an inordinate amount of movies (for more on this check out my letterboxd account). I’m also an avid fountain pen user, and have a small collection of pens I am proud of.