International Congress on Sound and Vibration 24

Between 23-27 July 2017 London hosted the International Congress on Sound and Vibration. This was the 24th such meeting organised jointly by the Institute of Acoustics and the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, of whom Dr Stephen Dance is a founding member. At the meeting there were 1040 delegates presenting 940 papers from 60 countries.  The presentations were given in 16 parallel sessions over 4 days. The event was a great success with many discussions which went on late in the evening!

International Congress on Sound of Vibration comes to London!

The International Congress on Sound and Vibration came to London, July 23-27th 2017. The host were the Plaza Hotel opposite the Palace of Westminster. This location is just 12 minute walk from London South Bank University were we are based. The Acoustics Group had a significant presence at the conference with five papers presented, one theme organised - Musical Acoustics, and four assistants helping out with the running of the event. Our thanks go to all of them for doing such an amazing job!

PhD student Gizem Okten presents at ICSV 24

On Monday 24th July former PhD student Gizem Okten presented her research to ICSV 24 in the Musical Acoustics session. Gizem's paper was entitled, "An investigation into the effect of acoustics on vocal strain of Opera singers". This research summarized her entire doctoral thesis! Gizem now works at WSP in their London office.

MSc student Eric Ballestero presents at ICSV 24

On Wednesday 26th July 2017 MSc student Eric Ballestero presented his Masters thesis on Virtual Reality at ICSV 24. Eric presented in the Signal Processing session his paper was entitled, "Head tracked auralisation for a dynamic audio experience for a dynamic audio experience in virtual reality sceneries". Eric is now a PhD student on our doctoral programme so he can continue with the research.

MSc student Rodrigo Sanchez-Pizani prresents at ICSV 24

On Tuesday 25th July 2017 MSc student Rodrigo Sanchez-Pizani presented his Masters thesis to ICSV 24. Rodrigo's presentation was in the Room Acoustics session and entitled, "Impact that acoustic design has on higher education for non-English speaking students". He has just been funded by King's College to continue the work as a PhD student.

Luis Gomez presents at ICSV 24

On Monday 24th July 2017 Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina gave a presentation at ICSV 24 to Education Project and Policy on, "Do performance musicians need acoustic education?". After asking the audience there was a unanimous answer!

New NTi Environmental Noise Monitoring Kit

On the 21st July 2017 the Acoustics Group purchased 2 new NTi M2230 WP measurement systems for outdoor monitoring of noise. The new kit is already in use working on the Heliport project taking long term environmental noise measurements.