New Research Fellow Appointment

On 1st October 2010 Louis Gomez will join the Acoustics Group as a Research Fellow. He will strengthen the research group in the area of speech intelligibility. Louis was formerly a KTP Associate with Telent plc. Welcome Louis!

Acoustics Group at the Royal Society

On 8th June 2010 two Acoustics Group KTP projects were presented at a Knowledge Transfer Network event held at the Royal Society. The two projects were concerned with improving the speech intelligibility on London Underground and mitigating noise exposure of Classical Musicians. Afterwards discussions took place over a glass or two!

Presentations at the Royal Society

On the 8th June 2010, results from two KTP projects will be presented to the Electronic Knowledge Transfer Network to be held at the Royal Society. The projects are the updating of the Public Address system of London Underground with Telent and Classical Musicians and their hearing with Sound Research Laboratories.

BBC Classical Music, Noise and Hearing

On the 19th July 2010 we have ben invited to the BBC seminar on Classical Music, Noise and Hearing. This event has been organised to conjunction with the BBC Proms and will be held at the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House.

MSc student awarded Concert Hall scholarship

Masters student John Zeman has been invited to attend the CHRG Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 25-29, 2010. He was also awarded a full scholarship, $1500. Well done John!

Goto Meeting Webinar - The Future?

On the evening of the 12th May 2010 at London South Bank University the combined forces of the IMechE / CIBSE / ASHRAE group gave the first virtual seminar using Goto Meeting. Three international presentations were given - Dubai, Chicago and from India. So, some people stayed up late. Is this the start of the Virtual University?

Peter Mapp gives a Guest Lecture

On the 10th May 2010 Peter Mapp gave a guest lecture to the Masters students in Acoustics on most aspects of speech intelligibility. Peter also demonstrated some practical issue when trying to take STIPA measurements. Finally, he gave his thoughts on the future direction of intelligibility. The talk was appreciated by one and all!