Destinations of MSc Students 2011/12

One year on for the 8 MSc students of 2011/12: Lucia works for Temple Acoustics, Graham is with Adnitt Acoustics, Shane is singing and working for a recording studio, Alex is starting his PhD with the Fraunhofer Institute, Rob is with Sandy Brown still, Rob is still with TBA Associates, Hassan disappeared and Rolins is back in India working at an architectural practice. 

Newman Medalists Celebrate

A Christmas get together for a couple of ex Masters students, Paul Herwin and Nick Durup. They each won the Newman Medal, 2010 and 2012. Paul's dissertation based paper on straw bale constructions will be presented a the ICA in Montreal June 2013.

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

Peter Mapp presents at Reproduced Sound

On 15th November 2012, PhD candidate Peter Mapp gave a highly informative and entertaining presentation to the Institute of Acoustics Reproduced Sound Conference in Brighton. The paper was entitled, "Can sound systems really help overcome poor or inappropriate acoustics?". The students really enjoyed some light relief after a hard day!

Acoustics Group's Christmas Party 2012

On the 3rd December 2012, the Acoustics Group has its annual Christmas party. This year we were joined by Brad Backus, Ruth Hansford, Ken Marriott along with part time lecturers Bob Peter and Salih Hassan. The event was held at the Caprini Restaurant in Waterloo. We did miss the company of Ben though!

Abstracts submitted for 20th ICSV

On the 1st December 2012, an abstract was submitted to the 20th International Congress for Sound and Vibration to be held in Bangkok Thailand. The first paper is entitled, "The effects of air humidity and temperature variations in the acoustic design of voice alarm systems on Underground platforms". This will be presented by Dr Luis Gomez. The second paper, "Noise reduction in commercial refrigerators - A practical approach" will be presented by Dr Cat Marques of Adande. Wish I was going!