Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:38

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Phoenix, AZ, January 7-10, 2004
Meeting #993

• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, I
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Polya's Enumeration Theorem in Music Theory (Or, Why Are There 29 Tetrachords?).
    Julian L Hook*, Indiana University
    (993-05-551)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Non-Acoustical Application of the Discrete Fourier Transform to Music Theory.
    Ian Quinn*, University of Oregon
    (993-42-1486)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Some Musically Interesting Properties of Multi-aggregate Compound Interval Cycles.
    E Gollin*, Williams College
    (993-20-1338)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Counting Potential Intervals in Infinite (and Smaller) Spaces.
    Michael H. Buchler*, Florida State University
    (993-05-574)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, II
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Filtered Point Symmetry and Dynamical Voice-Leading.
    Jack Douthett*, TVI Community College
    Richard Plotkin, University of Chicago
    (993-37-632)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Spirlz.
    Stephen Soderberg*, Library of Congress
    (993-00-1310)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A computer-aided exploration of the transformational process in Xenakis' Nomos Alpha.
    Moreno Andreatta*, Ircam-Cnrs
    (993-20-1108)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tone System and Mental Process.
    Thomas Noll*, Technical University of Berlin
    (993-51-1485)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Pitch-Class Isometries.
    Robert W. Peck*, Louisiana State University
    (993-55-899)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pitch combinatoriality in gapped spaces.
    Jon Wild*, Harvard University
    (993-00-1397)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Statistical Aspects of John Cage's Etudes Australes.
    Murray Bremner*, University of Saskatchewan
    Mik Bickis, University of Saskatchewan
    (993-62-236)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model describing the Metricity of Musical Pieces.
    Anja Volk*, DJE Department of Industrial and Systems Engineeri
    (993-92-1590)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday January 10, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, III
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Cardinality Equals Variety for Chords, with a Note on the Twin Primes Conjecture.
    David L. Clampitt*, Yale University
    (993-11-1178)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Well-formed Scales and the Stern Brocot Tree.
    Norman A Carey*, Eastman School of Music
    (993-11-1046)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Winding modes around the circle of fifths.
    Vittorio Cafagna*, DMI - University of Salerno
    Domenico Vicinanza, DMI - University of Salerno
    (993-05-935)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Role of Mathematics in the Construction of Musical Scales.
    Richard J Krantz*, Metropolitan State College of Denver
    (993-00-737)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Aspects of Saturation and Ordering in Twelve-Tone Music.
    Ciro G Scotto*, Eastman School of Music
    Robert D Morris, Eastman School of Music
    (993-20-1663)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Topological Model of Motivic Analysis of Music: Theory and Implementation.
    Chantal Buteau*, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
    (993-54-1237)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A geometric model of continuous musical spaces.
    Clifton D Callender*, Florida State University
    (993-51-1212)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Knots, Braids and Chord Diagrams, As New Musical Structures.
    Franck J. Jedrzejewski*, Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-INSTN)
    (993-54-315)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Coincident histories or historical coincidence? Concurrent developments in nineteenth-century group theory and music theory.
    Nora A Engebretsen*, Bowling Green State University
    (993-01-1646)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.