Alex was born in 1975 in New York City. He earned a B.A. in Mathematics and Visual Art from Yale University, (1997), an M.A. in Art Education from Teachers' College (2001), and an M.S. in Architectural Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2009). He is currently working towards his PhD in Architectural Sciences and anticipates graduating in the winter of 2010.

He researches the construction of next generation computational engines for the simulation of acoustic wave propagation. Such efforts will provide designers of critical listening spaces greater expressive freedom in geometry and surface treatment while maintaining an optimal aural architecture.

Xiang, N., Calamia, P. and Bockman, A. C. (In Process) "Optimized overdetermination for solutions to interior Helmholtz problems."

Xiang, N., Jing, Y., and Bockman, A. C. (2009). "Investigation of acoustically coupled enclosures using a diffusion-equation model," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126, 1187-1198.

Bockman, A. (2009). "On the construction of a coupled solver for 2D boundary element acoustics: intrinsic error and its minimization," in School of Architecture (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), pp. viii, 131 leaves, bound : ill. ; 129 cm.

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