Paul Calamia
		Email calamp AT rpi DOT edu Web page  http://symphony.arch.rpi.edu/~calamp/ Office Greene Building, Room 202 Office hours Tuesdays 2:00 - 4:00 Phone 518.276.8075 Fax 518.276.3034 Mailing address  Paul Calamia School of Architecture Greene Building Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th St. Troy, NY  12180

Classes

Fall:	Arch. 4840 - Architectural Acoustics 1
Spring:	Arch. 6965 - Architectural Acoustics 2

Research

I am part of the Program in Architectural Acoustics in the School of Architecture at RPI. My research interests include computational room acoustics, interactive sound-field simulations, edge-diffraction modeling, and spatial audio rendering.

Publications

Journal Articles

"Measurement and modeling of diffraction from an edge of a thin panel," T. Lokki, V. Pulkki, and P. Calamia, Applied Acoustics, 69 (9), pp. 824 - 832, 2008.

"Fast time-domain edge-diffraction calculations for interactive acoustic simulations," P. Calamia and U. P. Svensson, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Spatial Sound and Virtual Acoustics, vol. 2007, Article ID 63560, 2007.

"Edge-diffraction impulse responses near specular-zone and shadow-zone boundaries," U. P. Svensson and P. Calamia, Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 92 (4), pp. 501 - 512, 2006.


Conference Papers

"A Perforated Desk Surface to Diminish Coloration in Desktop Audio-Production Environments," K. Gentner, J. Braasch, and P. Calamia, Proc. 123rd AES Convention, New York, October 5-8, 2007.

"Culling insignificant diffraction components for interactive acoustic simulations," P. Calamia and U. P. Svensson, Proc. 19^th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2007), Madrid, September, 2007 (invited).

"Edge subdivision for fast diffraction calculations," P. Calamia and U. P. Svensson. Proc. 2005 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2005), New Paltz, NY, October 2005.

"Integration of edge-diffraction calculations and geometrical-acoustics modeling," P. Calamia, U. P. Svensson, and T. Funkhouser. Proc. Forum Acusticum 2005, Budapest, August 2005.

"Scattering from simple-shaped objects using edge diffraction," U. P. Svensson and P. Calamia. Proc. AIJ/ASJ Symposium on Computational Acoustics, March 2005.

"Refurbishment of the Barbican Concert Hall," Carl P. Giegold and Paul T. Calamia, Proc. Institute of Acoustics Auditorium Acoustics Conference, London, July 2002.


Conference Presentations

"Numerical solution of high-frequency acoustic scattering problems by integral equations preconditioned using pseudo-differential impedance operators," David Calvo and Paul Calamia, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, p. 3033 (2007) (A).

"Investigation of voice stage support: A subjective preference test using an auralization system of self-voice," Cheuk Wa Yuen and Paul T. Calamia, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, p. 3174 (2007) (A).

"Acoustical requirements for music in non-Western worship spaces," Paul T. Calamia and Jonas Braasch, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, p. 3193 (2007) (A).

"Cross-modal perception of room acoustics," Anthony McCreery and Paul T. Calamia, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, p. 3150 (2006) (A).

"Edge diffraction in computer modeling of room acoustics," U. Peter Svensson and Paul T. Calamia, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, p. 2998 (2006) (A).

"Measurement and Prediction in Concert-Hall Design," Paul Calamia, Presented at the 95th Semi-Annual Symposium of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society, Potsdam, NY, October 21, 2006 (invited).

"Time-domain edge-diffraction calculations near zone boundaries," Paul T. Calamia and U. Peter Svensson, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, p. 1970 (2005) (A).

"A case-study comparison of computer modeling and scale modeling in acoustics consulting," Paul T. Calamia, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111, p. 2370 (2002) (A).

"The renovation of Madison’s Oscar Mayer Theater," Joseph W.A. Myers and Paul T. Calamia, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111, p. 2341 (2002) (A).

"Applications of physical and mathematical modeling in concert hall design," Paul T. Calamia and Martha M. Larson, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, p. 2389 (2001) (A).

"Renovating a landmark: London's Royal Festival Hall," Carl P. Giegold and Paul T. Calamia, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, p. 2300 (1999) (A).

"The effect of closely spaced high-frequency reflections on the perception of music," Paul T. Calamia and Scott D. Pfeiffer, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, p. 1046 (1999) (A).

"Measurement of the head-related transfer function at close range," Paul T. Calamia and Elmer L. Hixson, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, p. 3117 (1997) (A).

"On the use of pavement surfaces to attenuate traffic noise," Paul T. Calamia and Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, p. 3076 (1997) (A).


Miscellaneous

"Recent advances in diffraction modeling with the Biot-Tolstoy-Medwin method," Paul Calamia and Peter Svensson, Presented to the Spatial Audio and Room Acoustics Research Group in the Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, March 3, 2005.

M. McCann, P. Calamia, and N. Ailon, "Audio Extraction from Optical Scans of Records," 2004.

M.J. Lucas and P.T. Calamia, "Military Operating Area and Range Noise Model MR_NMAP User’s Manual," Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio: AAMRL, AL/OE-MN-1996-0001, 1996.