Summary of 2013

Thanks for all your support over 2013. We won four key awards: Dr Luis Gomez was the recipient of the Institute of Acoustics Peter Barnett Award, Dr Stephen Dance and the Acoustics Group received the  LSBU Enterprise team award, Dr Bob Peters received the Institute of Acoustics R W B Stephens Medal, and two of our MSc students were awarded Acoustical Society of America Newman medals: Shane Sugrue and Rob Burrell. Peter Mapp submitted and successfully defended his doctoral thesis. International links were furthered with the Politecnico of Turin and Federal University of Minas Gerais. Links with the Institute of Acoustics were also furthered with LSBU hosting a meeting on the Principles of Uncertainty, Dr Gomez gave an evening seminar as did two of the  MSc students. After a break of 17 years the Institute of Acoustics Diploma was reinitiated with 17 new students now in attendance.  Four papers were published in the Journal of Sound and Vibration, Applied Acoustics and the Journal of Building Acoustics and presentations given at the following conferences: Birmingham, Manchester, London, Southampton, Bangkok, Montreal, and Innsbruck. A new three year research project commenced with Baykam of Turkey. Significant investment was gratefully received for the refurbishment of the reverberation chamber, and cutting edge instrumentation: an impedance gun, a standing wave tube and four XL2 meters. For the Research Exercise Framework the Acoustics Group contributed two of the five engineering case studies. We look forward to 2014 in particular Melbourne for Inter-noise 2014 and the Musical Acoustics seminar at the Royal Academy of Music, but especially to two visiting PhD students from South America. Best wishes for the New Year