Friday, 29 July 2011

Brad presents at ICBEN

On the 28th July 2011, Brad Backus presented a joint paper with Steve Dance and Emad Bukhary on "Novel Noise Dosimeters" to ICBEN's Team 1. He did this using a "Show and Tell" style - a first for the conference!

Georgia presents at ICBEN

On the 28th July 2011, Georgia Zepidou presented her paper entitled, "Hearing loss amongst
classical music students" at Imperial College for ICBEN. Georgia then had to answer many tricky questions, which she helded with ease!

ICBEN Banquet at the Science Museum

On the evening of 26th July 2011, ICBEN held their conference banquet at the impressive Science Museum. During the proceedings Bridget Shield received a bouquet for her tireless work organising the conference over the past 2 years, from "flower girl" Nicky Shiers :)

Bridget stands in for Julie at ICBEN

On the 25th July 2011, Bridget Shield give a presentation entitle,"Noise in secondary schools pupils' : Perception and Performance" at the 10th ICBEN conference. Bridget had to stand in at the last minute for Julie Dockrell!

Acoustics Group at ICBEN 2011

On the 24-28th July, the Acoustics Group attended 10th ICBEN conference at Imperial College. The conference was organised by Prof Bridget Shield, who also arranged the beautiful weather. Well done Bridget.

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Acoustics Group Summer Party

On the 20th July 2011, the Acoustics Group held their summer party by the river Thames. We did miss a few people, but we did drink to your good health!

Joint Anglo-Franco Conference 2012

For 2012 a joint Institute of Acoustic/French Acoustical Society conference will be held in Nantes between 23-27 April. I've been asked to organise a session on acoustical education with Catherine Polet of Le Mans Univesity. I would think that we could use cheap acoustics as a basis for the session