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Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
New Education Manager at the Institute of Acoustics
Keith Attenborough has been appointed Education Manager of the Institute of Acoustics as of 1 November 2007.
Keith graduated in Physics from University College London before obtaining a PhD in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Leeds. From 1970 for 28 years he worked in the Open University (Milton Keynes UK) being promoted to a personal Chair in Acoustics in 1992. In 1996 he received the Institute of Acoustics’ Rayleigh medal for distin- guished contributions to acoustics. He is also Chair of the ANSI Working Group on Ground Impedance.
Keith is a Fellow of the Acoustical
Keith Attenborough
Society of America and of the UK Institute of Acoustics. He is a member of the ASA and EAA Technical Committees on Noise. In addition, he
is Editor-in-Chief of Applied Acoustics, an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and on the Editorial Board of Acta Acustica united with Acustica.
Keith has published over 240 papers in refereed journals and conference pro- ceedings and his research has included pioneering studies of acoustic-to-seis- mic coupling and blast noise reduction using granular materials. He has jointly authored the text’ published by Taylor and Francis at the end of 2006.
During his ‘retirement’ as well as working part time for the IOA, Keith plans to continue research including laboratory simulations of blast noise propagation, development of an acoustic rain gauge and investigations into sonic crystal noise barriers.
International Meetings Calendar
2008
10-11 April 16 April
17-18 April 26-29 May
4-6 June
29 Jun-4 Jul
6-10 July 7-10 July
21-25 July
Institute of Acoustics (UK) Spring Conference, Reading, UK \[www.ioa.org.uk/viewupcoming.asp\] Playing Safe. Meeting the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 in Music and Entertainment, London, UK \[www.ioa.org.uk/viewupcoming.asp\] Spring Meeting of the Swiss Acoustical Society, Bellinzona (Tessin), Switzerland \[www.sga-ssa.ch\] The Jubilee XXV Symposium on Hydroacoustics (7th EAA International Symposium on Hydroacoustics), Jastrzebia Gora, Poland \[www.amw.gdynia.pl/sha2008\] 5th International Styrian Noise, Vibration & Harshness Congress 2008, Graz, Austria \[www.accgraz.com\]
Acoustics’08 Paris: 155th ASA Meeting, 5th Forum Acusticum (EAA) 9th Congrés Français d’Acoustique (SFA), Paris, France \[www. acoustics08-paris.org\]
15th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Daejeon, Korea \[www.icsv15.org\] 18th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics (ISNA18), Stockholm, Sweden \[www.congrex.com/18th_isna\]
9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Mashantucket, Pequot Tribal Nation (ICBEN 9, P.O. Box 1609, Groton, CT 06340-1609, USA \[ww.icben.org\]
10th Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, Keele
27-31 July
25-28 August 25-29 August
8-12 Sept 9-11 Sept
10-12 Sept 15-17 Sept
22-26 Sept 23-25 Sept 3-5 October
6-8 October
University, UK \[www.mechanicsofhearing.com\] 1st International Conference on Water Side Security, Lyngby, Denmark \[www.wss2008.org\] 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC 10), Sapporo, Japan \[icmpc10.typepad.jp\] International Symposium on Underwater Reverberation and Clutter, Lerici, Italy \[isurc2008.org\]
6th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic \[isud6.fsv.cvut.cz\]
Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Fukuoka, Japan \[www.asj.gr.jp/index- en.html\]
International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering (ISMA2008), Leuven, Belgium \[www.isma-isaac.be\]
INTERSPEECH 2008–10th ICSLP, Brisbane, Australia \[www.interspeech2008.org\] Underwater Noise Measurement, Southampton, UK \[www.ioa.org.uk/viewupcoming.asp\]
7th International Conference on Auditorium Acoustics (Organised by the Institute of Acoustics in collaboration with the Norwegian Acoustical Society), Oslow Norway \[ioa.org.uk\] Acoustics Week in Canada, Vancouver, B.C., Canada \[www.caa-aca.ca/vancouver2008\]
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