Lay Paper submitted to the Acoustical Society of America

On the 9th April 2012, the Acoustical Society of America asked for a shorter lay version of the Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong paper to be written. This summary paper concerns the improvement of the acoustic environment for classical musicians, to be presented on the 14th May 2012. The paper was written to raise peoples' interest in architectural acoustics.

Papers submitted to the Journal of Sound and Vibration

On the 6th April 2012, a paper split into two parts was submitted to the Journal of Sound and Vibration. The premier acoustics journal. The paper was based on the award winning MSc dissertation by Gil Van Buuren. The paper is entitled, "Parametric studies on the low-frequency acoustics of listening rooms using a hybrid wave model: Part I -the model; Part II - Parametric study". Let's hope the reviewers understand the equations!!

MSc students visit Tate Modern

On the 20th March 2012 the MSc students visited the Whispering Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral - where they were quiet. So then we visited Tate Modern's turbine hall, where we made a lot of noise trying happy clapping and native calls! It did seem to work, so here's to our first video blog:)

RBA Acoustic Prize Winner 2012

On the 16th March 2012 RBA Acoustics awarded the MSc Environmental and Architectural Acoustics prize to Tamara Potaz. Tamara's project was entitled, "Something not to shout about- An evaluation of the implementation of the City of Buenos Aires’ acoustic pollution legislation and the measures applied to mitigate it". Prize giving is on the 26th April 2012 when the cheque arrives! Well Done Tamara!

RBA Acoustics Seminar

On 13th March 2012 Russell Richardson of RBA Acoustics gave a seminar to the Masters students in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics. Russell gave an overview of life of the consultants and a briefing on the workings of the Assocationof Noise Consultants. This time we ended up eating a chocolate fudge cake!

Peter Mapp Presents 120 Years on Intelligibility

On the 6th March 2012, for the 4th year Peter Mapp came in to teach a Master Class on Intelligibility. Peter then gave some insightful demonstration on the meaning of speech quality. It was enjoyed by all the students.

Third paper submitted to Acoustics 2012

The third Acoustics Group paper was submitted to Acoustics 2012. The paper will be presented in the Education session by PhD Candidate Georgia Zepidou and is entitled, "Introducing acoustics to classical musicians". Another reason to go to Nantes!