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Mediating the Exquisite: Aesthetic Affordances of the Network Arts
Full text linkThis paper argues that the Network Arts afford uniquely nuanced aesthetic interactions among humans and between humans and machines. After defining these moments under a new concept I call exquisite musicking, I investigate how distributed networks of human and nonhuman actors create experiences that challenge or complicate traditional notions of agency, ensemble, aesthetics, and synchrony. Using Actor-Network Theory as a lens of inquiry, I explore the exquisite affordances of network-based musicking, discussing how pitch, timbre, and texture are co-created in networked performances. I also examine how exquisite musicking could serve as a fruitful concept in music education, particularly in pedagogical strategies that foster the mindful, embodied practice of Deep Listening as developed by Pauline Oliveros and Thích Nhất Hạnh
Transmission: Works of Sarah Rose Weaver and Collaborations (2022–2024)
Full text linkThe Transmission Series took place between 2022 and 2024, primarily in a virtual network music setting. The series consists of my compositions and collaborations for solo, chamber, and large ensemble performance, building on my works and essays since 1998 that engage in-person, hybrid, and virtual spaces. This essay details the artistic and technological strategies employed in the Transmission Series, including audio, video, and score excerpts. The technologies discussed include networked audio and video, along with streaming and recording methods. The works featured in the discussion are “Transcendence Transmission” (2022) for large ensemble, “Sub Way” (2022) for chamber ensemble, “Here Mirror” (2022) for solo bass trombone, “Time Tone” (2024) for solo Glissando Flute®, and “In 3” (2023) for large ensemble
The Pure Yang-Mills Field
No full textWe construct a pure Yang-Mills quantum gauge field theory. The construction is based on the axial gauge, ghost states, the BRST framework and the entropy production maximizing Gribov extension of the Hamiltonian, with a loop expansion to all finite orders for the dynamics. The construction is established by renormalized perturbation theory to finite order. Reflection positivity and the reconstruction theorem are established. Hilbert space convergence of renormalized perturbation theory is a consequence of the reconstruction theorem. All Osterwalder-Schrader axioms are verified. A two-sided mass gap exists in the energy spectrum for the weak coupling limit of low temperature. The conditions of the Yang-Mills Millennium Prize are fulfilled. The construction depends on an assumed principle of a maximum rate of entropy production. The entropy principle reduces drasticly the number of terms in the renormalized perturbation theory series. This principle is essential in achieving convergence
Final Doctoral Recital
No full textPiano, Frederic Chopin, Olivier Messiaen. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program
SEM Images and EDS Spectra of Vapor Deposited Phases
No full textThis file contains supplemental data for the JGR manuscript Trace Element Transport and Deposition during Magmatic Degassing: The Effect on Martian Rocks and Fines (Zimmermann et al., in review). It includes SEM images and associated EDS spectra of vapor deposited phases produced in experiments
Gauge Invariance and Repeated Time Isolated Solution Discontinuities
No full textThe main conclusion of this paper is (a) a gauge structure for the underlying physics, at or above a critical dimension, forces multiple time isolated solution discontinuities (blowups). The main conclusion (b) is that the solution is one Sobolev index more singular that the natural Hilbert space H. Proofs are given for Navier-Stokes fluids
Pass It Along: Learning About Health Inequities Through Project-Based Learning and a Student-Developed Workshop
Full text linkPeople in marginalized communities experience reduced quality of healthcare due to complex interactions between implicit bias, stereotypes, and structural inequities, but future healthcare providers remain unprepared to confront these problems. To address the issue of health inequities in health sciences education, a project-based learning seminar for undergraduates called “Biology of Inequity” was developed and offered by the Department of Anthropology at [redacted] University in Spring semester 2022. Following the project-based learning (PBL) framework, the course was extremely interactive, culminating in a project where students were asked to “materially improve health inequalities out in the real world.” The students responded by creating a one-hour workshop for fellow undergraduate health sciences students on bias and structural healthcare inequities. The results of both the course and the workshop were overwhelmingly positive, and demonstrate an efficacious approach to improving providers’ awareness of inequities in healthcare
United Seas for Resilient Reefs: A Blueprint for Coral Conservation through International Cooperation
Full text linkCoral reefs are one of Earth’s most vital and threatened ecosystems. They protect coastlines, generate billions of dollars of tourism revenue, support valuable fisheries, and contribute to the development of vital medicines. Yet half of the world\u27s coral reefs have been lost in the last 50 years, and 90% of remaining reefs are projected to die off by the middle of this century, mainly due to warming seas from climate change.
Despite these challenges there is reason for hope. Some coral reefs – such as in the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba – have demonstrated remarkable resilience to climate change impacts. However, they are at risk from other threats such as pollution, unsustainable development, harmful fishing, and unsustainable tourism. And like any organism or ecosystem, coral reefs will be in the best position to fight impacts from climate change if they are otherwise in the healthiest condition possible. Therefore, while it is imperative to accelerate the global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions that drive ocean warming, additional conservation initiatives and strategies are necessary to support coral reef resilience, with priority given to those ecosystems that have demonstrated meaningful thermal resilience to this point.
Around the world, local communities, scientists, and policymakers are also developing new ways to protect and restore these ecosystems. Many of these efforts must be implemented at the local level, but, given that coral reefs are highly connected ecosystems spanning large areas of ocean and often cross international borders, reef conservation also necessitates transboundary actions steered by coordination and cooperation across countries.
This report offers a roadmap for global and regional action to safeguard coral reefs. It draws on the work of a coalition of experts across a diversity of disciplines in coral reef conservation, from finance to physiology, from six countries who gathered in June 2024 to develop strategies for supporting coral resilience. Inspired by conservation efforts in the Gulf of Aqaba, they focused on two critical but juxtaposing regions – the Red Sea and the Caribbean – to identify practical, actionable steps at regional and global levels to support transboundary, seascape-level action for coral reef resilience. In addition to concrete recommendations for the focal regions of the Red Sea and Caribbean, the outcomes of their work also provides a comprehensive framework to support international and transboundary management of coral reefs at global and regional levels. The workshop identified several priority actions for supporting resilience, including:
1. Conservation finance;
2. Science and knowledge management;
3. Regional political coordination;
4. Area-based management;
5. Ecosystem restoration; and,
6. Capacity strengthening and community engagement
By examining the unique characteristics of different coral reef ecosystems, such as the extreme thermal tolerance of Red Sea corals, and considering both environmental and social factors as one connected ecological system, this paper provides valuable insights for enhancing coral reef resilience and conservation efforts globally.
Above all, this paper highlights a powerful truth: in a world where diplomacy and political coordination are increasingly strained, coral reef survival depends on international cooperation and coordination.
Reefs span borders. So must our solutions to save them
Traces of Presence: Remembering Daniel Pinheiro
Full text linkA tribute article in memory of artist Daniel Pinheiro (1982–2025)
Final Doctoral Recital
Full text linkViola, Dimitri Shostakovich, York Bowen. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program