ICA Madrid, September 2007

After a long summer break, 5 members of the Acoustics Group attended the International Congress on Acoustics in Madrid, 2-7th September 2007. Five papers were presented by Louis Gomez, Christos Nestoras, Emma Greenland, Georgia Zepidou and Stephen Dance. A fantastic time was had by all as Louis did an excellent job as a tour guide.

IoA Spring Conference Reading, April 2008

The  Spring Conference was well attended by academics, Phd students and MSc students alike. The Acoustics Group had 15 diverse members in attendance including 3 academics: Bridget Shield, Stephen Dance, and Bob Peters; 7 MSc students- Ian Sharp, Ioannis Papanikolaou, Hussein Aied, Salva Morant, Phil Wash and Linda Liviani; 5 PhD students- Christos Nestoras, Louis Gomez, Georgia Zepidou, Anne Carey and Emma Greenland; and finally an exhibitor from Rion, Bob Lorenzetto who is also on the Acoustics MSc course.  Five papers were presented by the LSBU team. Stephen Dance gave a paper entitled, "Noise from a roof-top urban wind turbine in London Phil Wash presented results from his Master’s dissertation on "iPod listening levels on London Underground for speech and music", Christos Nestoras presented his PhD work "Computer model utilization for speech intelligibility assessment in enclosed spaces using sound systems".  Salva Morant presented his Master’s dissertation entitled “Hearing loss amongst classical music students“. Finally, Bridget Shield gave a paper describing the psychosocial effects of hearing loss on adults.

Acoustics 08 Paris, July 2008

Between June 30th and 6th July 2008 9 people from the the Acoustics Group attended Acoustics 08 in Paris. Five papers were presented by Prof Shield, Christos Nestoras, Linda Liviani, Phil Wash, Georgia Zepidou. Salih and Bilgin Hassan joined us for the banquet at the Institute of Chemistry.
It may look like we drink a lot, but we did do some work! Although Steve Dance and Salva Morant were just taking it easy. Georgia Zepidou presented her paper on, "An audiometry study of the students of the Royal Academy of Music".Linda Liviani presented her MSc dissertation on urbines as a poster, Christos Nestoras presented his paper on quiet noise measurements using the swept sine method, Phil Wash presented iPod listening levels, Bridget Shield on an overview of noise in schools.

Inter-Noise 2008 Shanghai, October 2008

The International Congress on Noise Control Engineering was held in Shanghai Convention Centre 26-29^th October 2008. Ten parallel sessions were arranged covering all areas of acoustics with 1200 delegates in attendance. The Acoustics Group had 3 representatives in attendance: Stephen Dance, Christos Nestoras and Louis Gomez.  Three papers were presented in the architectural acoustics session on Underground spaces. Stephen Dance gave a paper entitled, “Are simplified models good enough to predict the acoustics of Underground Stations?” based on the KTP work with Telent. Christos Nestoras presented his PhD research “Design and Validation of Computer Models for the Assessment of Speech Intelligibility in Enclosed Spaces”. Louis Gomez the KTP Associate with Telent presented, “Evaluation of More Suitable Test Methodologies to Obtain RT and STI in London Underground Spaces”. Contacts were made, particular with instrumentation manufacturers in China, which could potentially save the group a fortune in replacing broken microphones!