Making friends at Inter-Noise 2016

Over the course of Inter-Noise 2016 many new friends were made and old faces resurfaced, Allan Menino! Stefan Weigand of Hafen City University asked if Dr Stephen Dance would become his second supervisor on his room acoustics simulation project, "Sound Particle Methods in Noise Control". It was a pleasure to meet him and many more conference delegate, just too many to mention!

Simon Brown presents at Inter-Noise 2016

On Tuesday 23rd August 2016 former MSc student Simon Brown presented his paper at Inter-Noise 16. Simon's paper was entitled, "The suitability of additive manufacturing materials in a 1:10 scale reverberation chamber" and it was in a Materials session called, "Experimental porous characterisation - from State of the Art to Standardisation". There were many questions some of which needed deciphoring!

Doug Shearer presents at Inter-Noise 2016

To a full house, PhD student Doug Shearer presented his first conference paper to Inter-Noise 2016. Doug presented in the Measurement Method in Building Acoustics session his paper, "Measuring absorption below 100 Hz with a particle velocity- pressure sensor. He was asked many questions which he handled, although I think the paper produced more questions than answers!

The Acoustics Group at Inter-Noise 2016

The Acoustics Group attended Inter-Noise 2016 hosted by Hamburg. On the 20-24th August Hamburg hosted Inter-Noise 2016. Three oral presentations were given at the conference by the Acoustics Group, as well as assisting with a bid to I-INCE to host Inter-Noise 2019 in Glasglow, in the end Madrid won. Hamburg is a beautiful city and Germany were wonderful hosts!

Testing Active Absorbers

On the 19th August 2016, LSBU Elephant Studios were testing the new AVAA active absorbers. The absorbers were introduced at AES in June 2016, so the Acoustics Group thought they needed testing! Using Elephant Studios 2 AVAA C20 absorbers were tested. Future testing will be undertaken in a less challenging environment.

New Lecturer joins the Acoustics Group

On the 1st September 2016 we will welcome back Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina to the Acoustics Group. Dr Gomez-Agustina will be joining us as an acoustics lecturer and Institute of Acoustics Certificate and Diploma course director. Welcome Back Luis!

Visit to KU Leuven

On the 9th August 2016, Dr Stephen Dance visited the Catholic University of Leuven to discuss options for potential research collaborations. Dr Elke Deckers of the Department of Mechanical Engineering hosted the discussions in splendid style on a beautiful day. Let's hope a return visit can be organised soon.