ACOUSTICAL NEWS FROM ABROAD

Walter G. Mayer Physics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057

INTER-NOISE 88 details announced

The secretariat of the 1988 International Conference on Noise Control

Engineering has announced further details about scope and venue of IN- TER-NOISE 88. The meeting will take place 30 August to 1 September 1988 in the Palais des Papes in the ancient city of Avignon. The technical sessions will include invited and contributed presentations as well as poster sessions. An exhibit will be held in conjunction with the conference, featur- ing noise control and soundproofing equipment. In an effort to reduce the number of parallel sessions the French Scientific Committee will select pri- marily papers that deal with topics covered by the general theme of the INTER-NOISE 88, "The Sources of Noise."

The meeting is sponsored by I/INCE and is organized by the Indus- trial and Environmental Group of the French Acoustical Society, with J. Mattel acting as General Chairman. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 31 October 1987 and manuscripts must be received by 15 March 1988. The address for general inquiries is INTER-NOISE 88 Secretariat, BP 23, 60302 Senlis Cedex, France.

Short courses on music and information theory to be held at the University of Padova

The Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padova, Italy, has announced the titles and contents of nine short courses that will be conducted between July and November 1987 as part of the series "Corsi di Informatica Musicale." The courses generally run 4 days a week for 6 hours a day. The topics covered range from psychoacoustics, musical instrument digital interfacing, and numerical evaluations to synthesis algorithms. Var- ious hardware and software will be used in support of the lecture material. The staff conducting the courses comes mainly from the Centro and from other universities or agencies in Italy. More details are available from CSC, Universira di Padova, via S. Francesco 11, 35121 Padova, Italy.

Institute of Acoustics (U.K.) schedules weekend meetings

Two conferences have been scheduled that will follow a recently intro- duced pattern by being held during weekends. The first of these conferences, Reproduced Sound 3, is sponsored by the Institute of Acoustics, in collabor- ation with AES, ASCE, EMAS, and APRS. It will be held at the Winder- mere Hydro Hotel, 5-8 November 1987. The technical sessions will start Friday and end Sunday afternoon with some time set aside for relaxation. The sessions will be concerned with the technical aspects of room, recording studio, and auditorium acoustics and noise control, speech reinforcement, loudspeaker development, electroacoustic music, and digital and other in- strumentation techniques. Further details are available from the conference organizer, R. Lawrence, Institute of Acoustics, 25 Chambers Street, Edin- burgh, EH1 1HU, U.K.

The other meeting is scheduled for the same location for 26-29 No- vember 1987, dealing with Industrial Noise. This conference is sponsored by the Industrial Noise Control Group of IOA. The program will include contributions to the open sessions, poster sessions, and workshops on any topic relating to the general theme of the conference. Additional informa- tion is available from R. J. Peters, Department of Construction Studies, NESCOT, Reigate Road, Ewell, Epsom, Surrey KT17 3DS, U.K.

Both conferences are being held during a weekend so that a mixture of work and relaxation within a family atmosphere might prevail.

British Society of Audiology has new offices and officers

Earlier this year the British Society of Audiology held its Annual Gen- eral Meeting during which new officers were elected. The outgoing Chair- man, M. C. Martin, reported that A.M. Martin was elected Vice Chairman and N. C. Bland would succeed to the Chairmanship at the end of the AGM.

At about the same time the BSA moved its headquarters from Harvest House on London Road in Reading to new quarters. The new address of the BSA is 29 Auckland Road, Reading RG6 1NP, U.K.

China to host International Congress on Acoustics

The International Commission on Acoustics held its annual business

meeting earlier this year in Rome, Italy. A number of countries had submit- ted proposals to host the 14th ICA. The Commission decided to accept the invitation by China to hold the 1992 ICA in Beijing. No specific dates have been announced but it is anticipated that the Congress will be held in late August or early September.

The Commission also reported that preparations for the 13th ICA, to be held 24-31 August 1989 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, appear to be well on schedule.

Swiss Acoustical Society expands scope of meetings

Starting this fall, the Swiss Acoustical Society annual meetings will be expanded to last 2 days instead of the traditional 1 full day. This new sched- ule will make it possible to incorporate 2 half-days of technical papers pro- grams, in addition to business meetings and technical tours. The first meet- ing that follows this new format is scheduled to be held 22-23 October 1987 in Freiburg, Switzerland. Information is available from A. Lauber, Swiss Acoustical Society, P.O. Box 251, 8600 Diibendorf 1, Switzerland.

French University honors American acoustician In a ceremony on 17 March 1987, the Universit• du Havre awarded an

honorary Doctorate of Science to Herbert 'Oberall of The Catholic Univer- sity of America. The award was presented in recognition of Professor Ober- all's development of the "resonant scattering theory," which he and his co- workers, Lawrence Flax and Louis Dragonette first published in 1978 [J. Acoust $oc. Am. 63, 723 (1978) ].

Proceedings available ß Ultrasonic Technology 1987, edited by Kohji Toda, Proceedings of Inter-

national Conference on Ultrasonic Technology, April 1987, Toyohashi, Japan. 366 pp., contains 45 papers, text in English. List price $95, pub- lished by MYU Research, 2-32-3-303 $endagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.

ß Acoustooptics and Applications. Proceedings of the 3rd Spring School, May 1986, Gdansk, Poland. 224 pp., text of all papers presented, text in English. Available from Institute of Experimental Physics, Gdansk Uni- versity, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland.

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