A Year in Acoustics 2012

Thanks for all your support over 2012. We won three key awards: Peter Mapp was the recipient of the International Electrotechnical Commission's 1906 Founders award,  Dr Dance received the inaugural LSBU Enterprise award, and three MSc students were awarded Newman medals: Alba Losada, Paul Herwin and Graham Shaw. Both Nicola Shiers and Luis Gomez submitted and successfully defended their doctoral thesis. International links were initiated with RWTH Aachen University, Politecico of Turin and Federal University of Minas Gerais. Links with the Institute of Acoustics were considerably strengthened with our own Professor Bridget Shield becoming President, the Group hosted four IoA meetings at LSBU: ETSU-R-97, National Planning Policy Framework, the Annual General Meeting, Music to your Ears seminar, and our students gave a London Branch meeting address. Conferences were attended in Iceland, Birmingham, Brighton, Istanbul, Hong Kong and Nantes. New research projects were undertaken with Adande and New Brunswick. We are looking forward to 2013 with a trip to Montreal for the joint ICA/ASA/CAS meeting. Best wishes for the New Year