Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Noise Awareness Seminars at the Royal Academy of Music

On the 8th and 9th September 2010 the Acoustics Group delivered the 4th in the series of educational seminars to the Royal Academy of Music. Over the month 330 students will be audiometrically tested at the Acoustics Lab at London South Bank University. It's going to get busy!

Monday, 6 September 2010

External Examiner for Georgia

Over a few drinks at ICA 2010 Prof Phil Nelson, ICA Past President, agreed to be Georgia Zepidou's external examiner for her doctoral defence. The date has been set for 23rd February 2011, so hurry up George!!

Georgia attends ISRA 2010 in Melbourne

On 29-31st August 2010 Georgia Zepidou attended an associated meeting - The International Symposium on Room Acoustics in Melbourne. During the meeting Leo Beranek gave the banquet speech. I believe Georgia had a great time, as she does prefer the older man!

Steve Presents and Chairs at ICA 2010

On the afternoon of the 25th August 2010 Steve co-chaired the Architectural Acoustics session in the presence of Leo Beranek at the ICA in Syndey. The session was co-chaired by Henrik Moller. Steve presented, to a full room, his paper entitled, "Improving the Acoustic for Classical Musicians". Leo did indeed ask a question!

Georgia Zepidou presents at ICA 2010

Very early on 25th August 2010 Georgia Zepidou presented a paper at ICA 2010 in Syndey. The paper was entitled, "Noise at Work Regulations 2005 and the Royal Academy of Music 'Noise Project' " and was in the Occuptional Noise session. Well done for presenting without the aid of coffee George!

ICA Sydney 2010

On the 23rd August 2010 Steve and Georgia attended the International Congress on Acoustics at the Sydney Convention Centre on Darling Habour. The congress had 900 delegates and 800 papers spread over 10 parallel sessions. The trip was sponsered by a Royal Academy of Engineering Travel Grant, too whom are grateful thanks go!

Sunday, 1 August 2010

Concert Hall Research Group's Summer Institute

John Zeman, a Masters student, really enjoyed his time in Santa Fe at the Concert Hall Research Group's Summer Institute. Many thanks go to the committee who awarded him a full scholarship to attend. He made links with industry and with Lauren Ronsse of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.