King Khalid University visit the Acoustic Lab

The Acoustics Group part hosted a visit from a delegation from King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. The twenty delegates were interested in experiencing the only large anechoic chamber in London. Many thanks go to Dr Amer Ali for initiating the meeting. 

New conditioning amplifier purchased

A new B&K Nexus conditioning amplifier has been purchased by the Acoustics Group. The team will use the two channel microphone amplifier Type 2691 to undertake binaural measurements and for physical scale modelling projects.

Paper published in Applied Physics Letters

We are delighted to announce a paper on "Experimental validation of deep-subwavelength diffusion by acoustic metadiffusers," has been  published online today, 08-20-2019, in Applied Physics Letters (Vol.115, Issue 8). The paper details a collaboration with University of Le Mans on a new type of thin acoustic diffuser. The research was undertaken by PhD candidate Eric Ballestero and was funded by the Royal Opera House and the EU Cost project DEnorms. The paper can be found here until early September 2019.

IOA Musical Acoustics meeting at Henry Wood Hall

The programme for the annual Institute of Acoustics Musical Acoustics Group has been produced by Prof Stephen Dance on Music, Recording and Performance. At this year's meeting we have a big turn out by London South Bank University with PhD candidate Doug Shearer talking about the acoustic treatment of the hall, Dr Gomez on new room acoustic sound signals and Prof Dance on sound exposure of the Choristers of St Paul's! There are of course 5 other excellent talks! Please see the programme

Dr Aygun is the new MSc Course Director

From 1st August 2019 Dr Haydar Aygun will take over from Professor Stephen Dance as the Course Director for the Masters in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics at London South Bank University. Dr Aygun lectures extensively on the course and has experience of course directorship. He wished to thank Steve for his work developing the course over the past 16 years. Here's to the next 16 years and bigger and better things!

Paper submitted to Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials

A paper has been submitted by PhD Candidate Eric Ballestero for the 2nd Symposium on Acoustics Metamaterials meeting to be held in Ischia, Italy 9-11th October 2019. The paper is a joint collaboration with Le Mans University and is entitled, "Experimental Validation of a 3D printed Quadratic Residue Metadiffuser". Ischia also happens to be a beautiful island!

Papers at Reproduced Sound 2019

The Acoustics Group is well represented at the 35th Institute of Acoustics Reproduced Sound conference to be held in Bristol 19-21 November 2019. PhD candidate Rodrigo Sanchez-Pizani will be presented his research into "Subjective evaluation of permanently installed microphones in classrooms".  This is followed by Visiting Professor Peter Mapp on thought provoking subjects, " What we do, if we didn't have STI?"  and "Acoustic and Audio Survey of Some Churches". See you in Bristol on SS Great Britain!