Final Doctoral Recital

Voice, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kyle Krause, Richard Strauss. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

Final Doctoral Recital

Cello, J. S. Bach, Ludwig v. Beethoven, Elliott Carter. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

PROTOCOL: New York State Race, Ethnicity, and Insurance Disparities in Follow-up Prostate Cancer Screening

Using de-identified reports from the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) data, this descriptive study will identify the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) metrics on the follow-up prostate cancer screening care within 3 years of index prostate cancer screening test in NYS. The socioeconomic status metrics will be subclassified into race, insurance, and ethnicity and each of these sub-components will be evaluated for its impact on the follow-up cancer screening care. The exclusion criteria for this study includes patients records with unknown age, age \u3c55 or \u3e75, previous history of prostate cancer or radical prostatectomy, previous prostate biopsy, female sex, lives outside NYS, unknown or missing data on race, ethnicity, or insurance status, or multi-ethnic patients. For the included patients, initial prostate cancer screening, follow-up screening, characteristics (e.g., age, SES), and risk profiles will be evaluated. Moreover, patients diagnosed with prostate cancer or receiving prostatectomy will be reported. Additionally, the following hypotheses will be tested: H(0): Among patients with a baseline PSA test, socioeconomic status (SES) metrics (i.e., vulnerability based upon race/insurance/ethnicity) may pose as barriers to follow-up prostate cancer screening care within 3 years of index prostate cancer screening test (e.g., Vulnerability = V = Black, Hispanic, and Self-pay Insurance) o H(0): Among patients with a baseline PSA test, race does not impact the likelihood of follow-up prostate cancer screening care within 3 years of index prostate cancer screening test (e.g., R-FC) o H(0): Among patients with a baseline PSA test, insurance does not impact the likelihood of follow-up prostate cancer screening care within 3 years of index prostate cancer screening test (e.g., I-FC) o H(0): Among patients with a baseline PSA test, ethnicity does not impact the likelihood of follow-up prostate cancer screening care within 3 years of index prostate cancer screening test (e.g., E-FC

Life Cycles of Baroclinic Waves in the Framework of Local Finite-Amplitude Wave Activity

Baroclinic waves are important due to their role in energy, momentum, and moisture transport, and their impacts on surface weather in the mid-latitudes. Life cycles of baroclinic waves have been well studied with numerical spectral or non-spectral models and dynamical diagnostic methods (e.g., energetics and PV diagnostics). However, the relative roles of the radiation of Rossby waves (i.e., downstream development), the momentum exchange between waves and the mean flow (barotropic process), low-level eddy heat flux (baroclinic process), and diabatic heating have not been fully explored, especially in terms of the budget of the nonlinear conservative wave activity, e.g., local finite-amplitude wave activity (LWA). In this dissertation, we investigated the life cycles of baroclinic waves with the diagnostic method of LWA in reanalysis data and dry and moist two-layer QG models. We found that troughs in the Southern Hemisphere may grow by downstream development, convergence of nonlinear advective LWA flux due to eddies, and diabatic heating and decay by downstream development and divergence of nonlinear advective LWA flux. Anticyclonic advective LWA flux due to the reference flow or eddies transfers LWA into or out of the trough. The differential heating with height is crucial for the non-conservative generation of LWA. In the dry two-layer QG model, convergence (divergence) of radiative LWA flux is the dominant term for the growth (decay) of troughs of all kinds of wave packets (i.e., growing, propagating, and decaying) in the simulation with the weakest vertical shear (i.e., 15 m/s at radiative equilibrium). The barotropic process plays a more and more important role in the life cycle of troughs as the vertical shear increases gradually, though this result depends on the type of wave packet. In the moist two-layer QG model, latent heating can generate negative PV in the upper layer and thus lead to the growth of ridges; however, it is unlikely a source for the growth of troughs due to the absence of vertical structure in the heating. For the mean LWA budget, latent heating is an evident source of LWA for all simulations; however, the total generation of LWA by baroclinic process and latent heating decreases as the latent heating parameter increases, and hence eddies are weaker compared to the dry model forced with the same radiative forcing. We further applied the formalism of LWA to water vapor (LWA-V), aiming to interpret the moisture displacement in the framework of nonlinear wave activity. The ability of LWA-V to trace down moisture source in a far region is attested by an atmospheric river (AR) event. The LWA-V budget analysis not only reveals that meridional moisture flux is the dominant term for the northward intrusion of moisture but also contains the measure of wave amplitude (i.e., the meridional displacement of moisture contours from the equivalent latitude) by design

Final Doctoral Recital

Piano, Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kaija Saariaho. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

Final Doctoral Recital

Coltrane, John and Fadini, Alessandro. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

Final Doctoral Recital

Piano, Grażyna Bacewicz, Gayane Chebotaryan, Charles Ives, Chick Corea, Fats Waller. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Progra

Synthesis: Works of Sarah Weaver and Collaborations (2020-2022)

Synthesis Series is a set of contemplative contemporary network arts works for solo, chamber, and large ensemble performance. The works are my compositions and collaborations from the years 2020 to 2022. The concept of synthesis is conceived as an activation of synchrony. Synthesis Series follows my prior works in Synchrony Series and Source Series as sequences of compositions since 1998 proliferating into a networked system of artistic realization. In Synchrony Series I defined synchrony as the perceptual alignment of distributed time and space components. Synthesis builds on this to activate the alignment as a networked state of composite resultants, networked synchrony across realities, transformation of distance, and synthesis activation for healing and transcendence. Synthesis is expressed through the pieces “Integral Infinity” (2021) for large ensemble, “At the Intersection of Eternity and Time” (2021) for solo percussion (collaborative composition with Gerry Hemingway), “Isomorphic Now” (2021) and “Interpolation Space” (2021) for chamber ensembles, and “Duplexity State” (2020) for audiovisual duo (collaborative composition with Daniel Pinheiro). The artistic and technological strategies for Synthesis Series utilize network arts in concept and in practice. Artistically, the pieces apply composition, improvisation, gestures, and individual performer artistic languages for virtual, hybrid, and in-person settings. The technology strategies for network performance, streaming, and recording include usages of open source technologies JackTrip, Pretty Good JackTrip Toolkit (PGJTT), and Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), together with commercial technologies Zoom, Vimeo, and Squarespace. This essay outlines the Synthesis Series technological context, artistic strategies for the series, details and excerpts for each piece, and new directions for the work, from my perspective as a composer

Musical Time in Network Interaction: The Case of unfinished line

Considering recent world events, art and music could not be unmoved by the dramatic turn of directions in both the way people relate and the place of technology in their lives. An ongoing project of both the authors in writing a new piece for cello and Disklavier operated by interactions in real-time gave place to a new kind of composition, mixing written music to improvisation and replacing real-time for something we are calling remote time. This paper presents such walking of resilience, first reviewing some relevant points of view about musical interaction in real-time and the importance of synchrony for musical poetics; secondly, we report technical matters of the project such as the logic of the Max patch that operates the virtual piano and the threshold be- tween playing the notes in the score and improvising after them; thirdly, we reflect on the ways our thoughts and practices had to change. As results, we suggest that network musical interactions may point to temporal relations that can affect musical poetics even for in-person performances, suggesting new ways of conceiving musical composition. Finally, in reporting our uses of network resources, we hope this work could present potentialities of such features and also technological limitations that can be solved in the future

Increasing Study Abroad Participation Among Historically Excluded Students

Higher education has yet to address the deeper causes of inequities in student participation rates in study abroad programs across student demographics. Factors contributing to inequities include disparities in access to social and cultural capital and neglect of identity-related experiences of racially minoritized and first-generation, historically excluded students. This qualitative study examined faculty and staff experiences in the development of study abroad programs and explored their considerations for the needs of historically excluded students. A consensus among interview participants indicated a significant role for intentionality throughout the processes of program development, recruitment outreach, and preparation of students for the study abroad experience