Jaden Al-Aidroos

Jaden Al-Aidroos

About me

Hello, I am a university student based in Toronto and San Francisco. I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Toronto, specializing in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics

In 2024, I competed in the US Physics Olympiad (Team USA Physics Competition), placing among the top in the country for a shot at representing the United States internationally. Since then, I’ve spent my time building robots, programming in 10 languages, teaching math at high schools around Toronto, doing quantitative finance research, and preparing to represent the University of Toronto in the Putnam Math Competition.

I hope you enjoy this website as much as I enjoyed making it. Go explore this site to see some of the things I’ve been working on!

Quick Facts

Background in Simulation

This Website

My favourite passion projects have been physics and real-time simulations. As you will see throughout this site, every page has a different interactive program running in the background that I've coded from scratch. I encourage you to play around with them and see what interesting patterns you can achieve.

This Page

Move the mouse around and see how the particle behaves (if you are on mobile, tap to move the center of mass). The background of this page is my own physics simulation running fully in your browser; it is calculating the physical effects of gravitational wave propagation on orbiting bodies. The mathematical model even behaves according to special and general relativity, approximating the space-time warping and relativistic effects near the speed of light.

Try getting the white ball to orbit your mouse cursor.

Personal Interests

I play on the University of Toronto Physics Student Union hockey team. Though I was born in Montreal, I grew up for the most part in California, so relearning how to play hockey has been a fun challenge over the last year.

I’ve been playing guitar since I was 7, and it’s my favourite way to unwind. You can check out my music on my music Instagram account.

Contact

Email: jaden.r.alaidroos@gmail.com

LinkedIn: Jaden@LinkedIn