Wednesday 31 January 2024

Presenting... The Art of Being Meetings

 
The Art of Being Meetings are back with the support of the IOA and UKAN Early Career groups! This time down in Southampton. The two one day events will be hosted by the National Oceanographic Centre on 21/22nd March 2024. The idea is to bring together practitioners and academic to share their knowledge and experience of the business. You can register here! UKAN will assist with financial support for all delegates here! All you need to do is to become a member... whic his free!!

Friday 19 January 2024

2022-23 NTI-Audio award best LSBU IOA Diploma project

 

The Institute of Acoustics (IOA) London Branch held its first meeting of the year at London South Bank University (LBSU) on 17th January 2024. Two of the best 2022-23 IOA Diploma student projects at LSBU were shortlisted to present their final projects as part of annual NTI-Audio sponsored best final project award competition. The students shortlisted and their topics were: Rebecca Page on Impact Noise and Vibration Induced by Deadlifts and Rhiannon Hawkins on Acoustic design of heritage school buildings

Sponsor of the award  NTI-Audio UK Managing director Charles Greene and LSBU IOA Diploma course director Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina presented the award to the joyous winner: Rebecca Page. This year’s event has marked the sixth anniversary of this successful award. The hybrid meeting  was well attended by a mix of senior consultants, academics, acoustics students and alumni. In the presentation speech Charles mentioned the consistent high quality of the projects entered to this award reflecting the high standard of the Diploma run at LSBU. Many congratulations to Rebecca and the other shortlisted finalist, we wish you all the best for the future.

Tuesday 16 January 2024

Article on "Acoustical and Vibrational Properties of Thin Rigid plates " published

 

On 16th January 2024 MDPI published an article in Acoustics by Dr Haydar Aygun. The paper was entitled, "Computational and theoretical investigation into acoustical and vibrational properties of thin rigid materials".  Well worth a read! 

LSBU to Host Acoustics AI Conference

 

The Institute of Acoustics is organising an "Acoustics in AI " meeting at London South Bank University on Wednesday 22nd May 2024. This one day meeting is a first for instittue. A Call for Paper has been announced covering fundamentals in AI, Limitations of AI,  Reliability of AI, and Potential applications for AI. See you in London!

Wednesday 3 January 2024

IOA London Evening Branch Meeting for Diploma Student Project Prize

 

For the sixth year the annual LSBU Diploma project presentations will take place at the Hub building on Wednesday 17th January 2024, as sponsored by NTI-Audio. This year there will be two presentations: the first on, "Impact noise and vibratin induced by deadlifts" by Rebecca Page, and second from Rhiannon Hawkins on, "Acoustic design of a heritage school building". Looking forward to seeing you all!