Bridging Chasms: Founders

BRIDGING CHASMS STEERING COMMITTEE:

Edmund Campion: (Professor of Composition, and Director Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley) [Current research: Compositions involving a wide range of concerns: the composition of music for a large ensemble of ancient Korean instrumentalists; another for orchestra and the Kronos Quartet featuring the CNMAT Spherical Loudspeaker Array; and collaborative multi-media works.]
music.berkeley.edu

Olivia A. Graeve: Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego [Current research: nano materials manufacturing; connecting fundamental principles of materials processing with specific engineering needs, with special emphasis on electromagnetic multifunctional materials for sensors and energy applications]
ograeve@ucsd.edu

R. Benjamin Knapp: Director of the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) and Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. [Current research: human-computer interaction focusing on the development and design of user-interfaces and software that allow the augmentation of physical control of instruments through direct sensory interaction.]
benknapp@vt.edu

Stephen McAdams: Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition, Professor, Schulich School of Music, McGill University [Current Research: Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience: psychophysical techniques capable of quantifying relations between the properties of vibrating objects, acoustic signals or complex messages and their perceptual results; perceptual and cognitive foundations of musical creation, performance and reception]
stephen.mcadams@mcgill.ca

Scott E. Page: Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics, the University of Michigan [Current Research: complex adaptive social systems, such as political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies; modeling how heterogeneous agents of bounded abilities generate optimal solutions to difficult problems.]
scottepage@gmail.com

Roger Reynolds: University Professor, UC San Diego, Department of Music; Pulizer Prize for Music, 1989. [Current research: conceiving and exercising computer algorithms for the real-time processing of natural sound; intermedia creations involving spoken text, instrumental music, computer-processed and spatialized sound, imagery presented through flexible projection design strategies
reynolds@rogerreynolds.com

Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri: Professor of French Literature at the University of California San Diego; Chair of the Department of Literature, UC San Diego. [Current research: French and Arabic literature; Early Modern culture; Comparative studies in European and Arab cultures; Orientalism; recently: "Turcs et Mores : Monarques musulmans dans les 'Histoires Tragiques' de Boaistuau et Belleforest”, L'Esprit créateur (Johns Hopkins University Press]
ozhiri@ucsd.edu