John Leo

If you are looking for my UCLA PhD thesis, it is here: Fourier Coefficients of Triangle Functions.

Site Updates

• (2024/12/8): Proust bibliography created.

• (2024/9/27): New Redonnet bibliography. Also Crime and Punishment Essay added to Fiction.

• (2024/9/10): New Robbe-Grillet bibliography with particular updates to the Souvenirs and Angélique pages. Everything is still in a state of flux.
  Also stories Rush and Jean(ne) de Berg: A Journey added to Fiction.

Upcoming Presentations and Performances

• Seattle Chinese Spring Festival Gala with Chinese Radio Seattle, Benaroya Hall, Sunday, February 2, 2025, 6:30pm.

• Music Analysis and Synthesis, talk and demonstration at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 9:00-9:30am.

Recent Past Presentations and Performances

• Seattle Chinese Orchestra East Meets West Concert, Benaroya Hall, Saturday, September 28, 2024, 1-3pm

• Pacifica Chamber Orchestra concert, Saturday, February 24, 2024, 3pm

• Chinese Remainder Theorem, talk and demonstration at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, Wednesday, January 3, 2024, 3:00-3:30pm. Slides. Music Video

I do independent research in mathematics and computer science at Halfaya Research. I am particularly interested in analysis and synthesis of music.

I perform on 中阮 (zhongruan) with the Seattle Chinese Orchestra. I also compose music and play the piano.

I maintain pages on my favorite authors Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marie Redonnet and Marcel Proust, as well as a selection of my own much more modest attempts at fiction. I've been keeping track of recently read books on Goodreads.

I was co-chair (with Youyou Cong) of FARM 2022, the ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design. In 2023 I was again co-chair of FARM, this time with Mae Milano. I am now on the FARM Steering Committee.

I was an alpine climb and scramble leader for the Mountaineers, although I'm taking a break from mountaineering.

I currently focus on running and competitive racing as a member of Club Northwest, where I was the Vice President of Teams from 2020-23.

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Email: leo@(this domain)