Before college I studied composition with Leo Kraft. At Yale I continued my studies with Robert Morris, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonanthan Kramer and others. In recent years my works have had performances in such places as NYC, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Kiel, Australia. Mathematics often informs my compositional work, but the manner and degree varies from composition to composition.
Composer Clarence Barlowe (born 1945, in Calcutta) coined the term *persistant dispersion chain* for a (finite or infinite) sequence of real numbers a_1, a_2, ..., a_n with the property that for each i less than or equal to n, the set {a_1, ... , a_i} contains one element lying in each open interval of the form ((a-1)/i, a/i), as a runs from 1 to i. Many year before Barlowe rediscovered the concept, mathematicians had proved a bound on the maximum length of such chains.