Memorandum of Understanding with Vanguardia

A Memorandum of understanding was informally agreed whereby Vanguardia will partner the Acoustics Group on a long term basis in future collaborations. This will begin with an offer of audiometry testing services for musicians. Jim Griffiths and David Trevor-Jones were shown the laboratory facilities and discussed mutually beneficial projects which we hope we can be a part of.

Masters Students Field Trip

On Thursday 26th March the Masters students visited St Paul's Cathedral and Tate Modern. One was shut, the other had a giant steel box with unusual acoustics. We reached the end of a successful term and look forward to the next one

Inaugural RBA Acoustics Prize

On Wednesday 24th March Gil Van Buuren was awarded the inaugural RBA Acoustics Prize for best student project. Russell Richardson of RBA-Acoustics presented Gil the cheque and a set of room acoustics books. Gil then donated the money to Moorfield's Eye Hospital. Well done Gil!

Acoustic students at Henry Wood Hall

On the 19th March 2010 the Masters students on the Environmental and Architectural Acoustics course undertook room acoustics measurements at Henry Wood Hall. A Norsonic 121 Sound analyser was used to drive a B&K loudspeaker at low frequencies to help identify any boominess in the hall. None was found, so the acoustic solution installed by Dance and Sons over the summer of 2009 is still working!

Joint MIT/LSBU presentation to Institute of Acoustics

On 18th March 2010 at the London branch of the Institute of Acoustics a joint presentation was given by Dr Stephen Dance and Dr Bradford Backus. The topic was our work for the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music. Demonstrations of our newly developed musician's sound badge was given, as well as the patented sound absorbing mirror and novel iPhone apps. Audiology was then discussed over a beer at a local establishment. Thanks to WSP Engineering for hosting the event.

Guest lecture from RBA Acoustics

On the 9th March 2010 Russell Richardson of RBA Acoustics came in to give a guest lecture to the full time Masters students. The talk was entitled, 'An overview of Acoustic Consultancy', which lead to an informative discussion as to the pro's and con's of being an expert witness, at which point I took a rather animated (blurry) picture of Russell!

Paper accepted for Energy in the City conference

Dr Stephen Dance will be presenting a paper at the Energy in the City conference, June 23-24 2010. The conference will be held at the new CEREB facility at London South Bank University. Stephen will be presenting his research on rooftop wind turbines.