2009

Keynote Panel (Mar 7), Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis (WCCMTA), Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Keynote (Feb 5-7), Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium (SMERS VII - Understanding Musical Expression), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2008

Music and Operations Research (Sep 19), Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. [ abstract ]

Engineering Science and Musical Art (Sep 12), Arts, Media and Engineering Program, Fulton School of Engineering and Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. [ abstract ]

MuSA.RT and the Pedal: The Role of the Sustain Pedal in Clarifying Tonal Structure (Aug 25), (joint presentation with Alexandre Francois.) International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.

Music Science and the Mathematical Modeling of Tonality. Symposium on Interactive Visualizations of Music (organizer: Juan P. Bello), Music Technology Program, New York University, New York, NY. [ website ]

Scientific deconstruction of music performance -- from score analysis to expressive gestures (May 19), CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA

The Mathematics in Music -- a concert-conversation with Elaine Chew (May 12), joint seminar by Department of Mathematics and Music and Theater Arts Section, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
[ press release, website ]

Life after the ORC in the academe (April 4), Operations Research Center Open House, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Music Science and the Mathematical Modeling of Tonality.
(March 25), Operations Research Seminar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. [ abstract, pdf slides ]

The Mathematics in Music -- a concert-conversation with Elaine Chew (Mar 24), Arts Now Series, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. [ audio ]

Music Science and the Mathematical Modeling of Tonality.
(March 4), School of Informatics Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. [ abstract ]

Analytical Listening Through Interactive Visualization. (Feb 29),
HCI Seminar (joint presentation with Alexandre François), Stanford University, Stanford, CA. [ abstract, video ]

Scientific Expressions of Musicianship. (Feb 28), Master's Dinner Speaker, USC Parkside International Residential College, Los Angeles, CA.

A Technical Analysis of P.D.Q. Bach. (Feb 15),
Annual Special Improbable Research Session (w/ Alex François)
AAAS Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston, MA.
[ improb res events, photos ]

Music Science and the Mathematical Modeling of Tonality. (Feb 8),
Musical Information Archiving and Retrieval (Axis 3) Workshop
Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
[ website, announce ]

Introductory Talk about MuCoaCo. (Jan 25), North East Music Information Special Interest Group, Columbia University, New York City, NY. [ website, slides ]

Analytical Listening Through Interactive Visualization. (Jan 16), Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series (joint presentation with Alexandre François), Radcliffe Gymnasium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. [ announcement, radcliffe cover, photos ]

2007

Music Science and the Mathematical Modeling of Tonality
(Nov 29), Computer Science Department Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. [ abstract ]

MuSA.RT and the Visualization of Tonality (Nov 8), Hearing Seminar,
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. [ announce ]

Life After The MCS Program: One Person's Story (Nov 8),
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Music and Operations Research - the Perfect Match (Oct 19),
Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. [ abstract, photos ]

MIMI in the Context of Music and Computing (Aug 2),
MIT Alumni Association, Club of Southern California,
Pasadena Lunch, Guest Speaker (jointly with Alex François),
The Beckham Grill, Pasadena, CA. [ announce ]

Lecture & Demonstration: The Seiler Grand Piano and Computer-Interactive Improvisation with MIMI
(May 19) joint presentation with Alex François
Intl Conf on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM2007)
Musical Instrument Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Visible Humour : Seeing PDQ Bach's Musical Humour Devices in The Short-Tempered Clavier on the Spiral Array Space (May 18)
Intl Conf on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM2007)
Musical Instrument Museum, Berlin, Germany. [ pdf abstract ]

Creating an Interdisciplinary Research Program in Music and Engineering (Apr 10), USC Women in Management Monthly Luncheon Guest Speaker, Los Angeles, CA.

The Mathematics in Music: A Performance, Computer Demonstration and Conversation with Elaine Chew (Mar 16), Invited lecture-recital as part of the National University of Singapore Arts Festival, NUS University Cultural Center, Singapore.
[ announce, review ]

Slicing It All Ways: Mathematical Models for Tonal Induction, Approximation, and Segmentation Using the Spiral Array (Mar 14), Invited Seminar, Room S14 03-10, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore. [ abstract ]

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University of Victoria Women Scholars Lecture Series, Victoria, BC, Canada (Feb 23-28)

Public lecture: "Music, Mathematics and Computing - beyond tuning, fractions, and sound synthesis"

Computer Science lecture: "Heuristics and Algorithms for Music Problems"

Lecture-concert: "the Mathematics in Music - performance and conversation with Elaine Chew"

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the Mathematics in Music - performance and conversation with Elaine Chew (Jan 24), Invited lecture-recital as part of Provost's Arts and Humanities Initiative, Alfred Newman Recital Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

"A Multi-Pronged Approach to the Creating of an Interdisciplinary Research Program in Mathematics and Computation in Music" (Jan 5), invited speaker for the Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Music Analysis as part of the 113rd Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

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