IOA Students to Present to London Branch

On the 16th January 2019 three former London South Bank U'niversity IOA Diploma students, Class of 2018, will present their dissertations to London Branch, hosted by WSP in Chancery Lane. We look forward to presentations from Kim, Jon and Jason on Overheating, Impulsive sound sources and Auralisation.

Summing up Acoustics 2018

We thank you for all your support over 2018. The year started well with PhD candidate Nick Durup successfully defending his doctoral thesis. In January Eric Ballestero joined us as a PhD student funded by the Royal Opera House. Three papers were published on feathers, sound field amplification in classrooms and noise from hydrogen explosions, as well as ten conference papers delivered at London, Cardiff, Crete, Hiroshima, Chicago, Hamburg and Bristol. More students won awards including Jamie Spary and Carl Ruegger winning the Acoustical Society of America Newman medal, and Jamie Spary again winning the RBA  Acoustics Prize. Links were again strengthened with the Institute of Acoustics with Dr Dance taking over as Chair of the Musical Acoustics Group. In addition Diploma and MSc students presented at London Branch meetings. The UK Acoustics Network was progressed with three meetings held in LSBU. Two new visiting positions were formalised for Prof. Peter Mapp, and Dr Bob Peters. Finally, 30 students were enrolled on our postgraduate courses this autumn. We wish them luck with their respective courses. Best wishes for 2019 from the Acoustics Group when we plan to start our new Apprenticeship programme

Testing a New Recital Hall

On the 18th December 2018, PhD Candidate Doug Shearer and Masters student Paula Menin went to measure the room acoustics of a new recital hall. The Acoustics Group were asked to assess the acoustics. During a busy afternoon a complete set of measurements were undertaken in this beautiful hall.

PhD students at the First EAA Winter School

The European Acoustics Association held their first ever "Winter School on Computational Acoustics". University of Le Mans hosted the event over 5 days 10-14th December 2018. The Acoustics Group was well represented with two PhD candidates in attendance: Doug Shearer and Eric Ballestero. The meeting was supported by the Young Acousticians Network, the UK Acoustics Network, the French Acoustical Society (SFA), LUAM and CNRS. They learnt a lot of maths and coding, plus had wine with lunch!

Merry Christmas to our Students

The Acoustics students came together for the annual Christmas party to celebrate the end of a most successful year. We'd like to thank all the students for joining the courses. We hope you had fun, made new friends, randomly enjoyed Venice, and most importantly learnt something about sound and vibration!

IoEE Christmas Dinner 2018

On the 10th December 2018 the annual Institute of Environmental Engineering held their annual Christmas dinner. IoEE was the former name of the Building Service and Acoustics Group and was lost when the Polytechnic became a University in 1992. As ever they are still active organising the CIBSE Technical Symposium for 2019, the Building Services Engineering Research and Technology journal, and the updating of CIBSE Guide A and B. We wish them all well and continue to support their active retirement!

Presentation at Reproduced Sound on new VR Plugin

The Institute of Acoustics Reproduced Sound conference held their annual meetin in Bristol, UK between 24-26 November 2018. At the meeting |Daniel Castro presented a joint paper with PhD candidate Eric Ballestero entitled, “Walk through auralisation framework for virtual reality sceneries powered by game engine architectures”. This was later demonstrated to our Masters students inn class!