John Leo

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

Site Updates

• (2024/12/29): Cookie Stories and The Teeth of Crime added to Fiction.

• (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, computer science and the arts at Halfaya Research. My focus is on using math and CS to help analyze music, as well as create new forms of music and literature. I am also interested in translation.

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)