prize and medals for 1979 were awarded during the assembly. The 1979 GALF prize went to Mr. Lesueur and his laboratory, the Labo- ratoire d'Acoustique de l'INSA-Villeurbanne. The GALF medals were awarded to Mr. P. Rapin of France and to Mr. O. Taraba of Czechoslovakia.

The meeting also included a tour of the variable 4imensions hall of IRCAM and the presentation of reports by the chairmen of the various specialty groups of GALF.

Institute of Acoustics (U.K.) publishes proceedings and handbooks

The Institute of Acoustics has recently announced the publica- tion of the following proceedings, meeting handbooks, and confer- ence handbooks:

Proceedings, volume 1 (Medal Lectures); volume 2 (1976); vol- ume 3 (1977); volume 4 (1978).

Meeting Handbooks: Low Frequency Noise (Chelsea College, January 1979); Acoustic Emission and Materials Evaluation (Chel- sea College, April 1979);Acoustic Test Facilities and Recent Work on Test Methods (Loughborough, May 1979);Nonphysical Aspects of Noise Criteria (Portsmouth Polytechnic, October 1979).

Conference Handbooks: Room Acoustics with Emphasis on Electroacoustics (Edinburgh, August 1979);Autumn Conference (Windermere, November 1979).

Sales information is available from IOA, 25 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HU, U. K.

Proceedings available Occupational Hearing Loss-Conservation and Compensation.

Proceedings of the 1978 Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia; 270 pages. Available through Australian Acoustical Society, NSW Di- vision, 35 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.

Centenary of British Audiomerry. Proceedings of BSA and Sci- ence Museum Symposium, October 1979, London; 40 pages. Avail- able through British Society of Audiology, Harvest House, 62 Lon- don Road, Reading, Berks. RG1 5AS, U. K.

Dates of future meetings

Below are announcements of meetings to be held abroad. De- tails are available from addresses following individual listings.

GALF Hearing Group Meeting on Freqeuency and Hearing. 8-9 May 1980, Marseille-

LMA/CNRS, 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13274 Marseille, France.

International Symposium on Personal Hearing Protection in Indus- try, 14-16 May 1980, Toronto-

Continuing Medical Education, University of Toronto, 245 Fitz- Gerald Building, Toronto MSS 1A8, Canada.

Joint Meeting British Society of Audiology and Irish Oto-Rhino- Laryngological Society, 23-24 May 1980, Dublin-

BSA, Harvest House, 62 London Road, Reading, Berks. RG1 5AS, U.K.

Summer School on Acousto-Optics, 26-30 May 1980, Gdansk- A. Sliwinski, Institute of Physics, University of Gdansk. ul. Wita Stwosza 57, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland.

First Meeting Greek Acoustical Society, 20-23 June 1980, Volos- E. Tzekakis, 5 Agiou Seraphim Street, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Speech Processing for Digital Telecommunications, 27 June 1980, Ipswich-

W. S. White, Post Office Research Centre, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IP5 7RE, U.K.

Acoustic Emission, 3-4 July 1980, London, Institute of Acoustics, 25 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HU, U.K.

National Conference of Audiological Society of Australia, 4-6 July 1980, Melbourne-

Ms. D. Moore, Audiology Department, Prince Henry's Hospital, St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, Australia.

Sensory-Neural Hearing Disorders, 7 July 1980, Nottingham- BSA, Harvest House, 62 London Road, Reading, Berks. RG1 5AS, U.K.

Neuronal Mechanisms of Hearing (Satellite Symposium of Physio- logical Science Congress, Budapest), 21-24 July 1980, Prague-

J. Syka, Institute of Experimental Medicine, U nemocnice 2, 128-08 Praha 2, Czechoslovakia.

NATO Institute on Underwater Acoustics and Signal Processing, 18- 30 August 1980, Copenhagen-Kollekolle-

L. Bjerno, Acoustics Laboratory, Technical University of Den- mark, Building 35 2, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark.

Noise Control in Hungary, 21-25 August 1980, Budapest- Optical, Acoustical, Filmtechnical Society, Anker kiSz 1,1061 Budapest, Hungary.

Ultrasonics and Properties of Condensed Matter, 11-13 September 1980, •.ilina-

I. Baj•tk, Physics Department, Technical University, 010-88 Zilina, Czechoslovakia.

-Ultrasonic Diagnosis in Ophthalmology, 16-19 September 1980, Nijmegen-

J. M. Thijssa, Institute of Ophthalmology, University of Nijmegen, St. Radboud Hospital, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Diesel Engine Noise Research, 20 or 25 September 1980, Lough- borough-

S. Haddad, Department of Transport Technology, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, U.K.

Syntaxe et S6mantique GALF Seminar, 23-25 September 1980, Plelan-le-Grand (near Rennes)-

Jean-Paul Haton, CRIN, Universit6 de Nancy I, CO 140, 54037 Nancy, France.

Speech Intelligibility, 24 September 1980, Birmingham- D. Richards, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Aston, Sumpner Building, 19 Coleshill Street, Birmingham B4 7BP, U.K.

Room and Building Acoustics, 7-10 October 1980, Strbsk6 Pieso- House of Technology CSVTS. •kult6tyho ulice, 881-30 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

Occupational Exposure to Noise and V•ration, 20-21 October 1980, Montreal-

National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. GALF Meeting on Acoustic Propagation, 21-23 October 1980, Marseille-

C. Gazanhes, Laboratoire de Mecanique at d'Acoustique, 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13274 Marseille, France.

Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Meeting, 22-23 October 1980, Montreal-

CAA, P.O. Box 3651, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4J1, Canada.

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