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International News
Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
Colin English (r) presents Rayleigh Medal to Michael Howe (l).
young acoustical engineers across a huge range of British industry sectors.
Dr. Coussios is a Lecturer at the Department of Engineering Science within the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford. His award-win- ning project utilizes novel techniques for sensing and controlling acoustic cavita- tion during non-invasive cancer therapy by HIFU, with a view of accelerating tumor destruction and making it possi- ble to monitor the treatment in real time.
Trevor Baylis, guest of honor at the Awards, presented Constantin with the heavyweight silver trophy. In addition to a solid silver replica of the trophy, Constantin received a luxury weekend break for two in Barcelona with tickets to a concert of his choice, and lunch with Spain’s Institute of Acoustics. He gener- ously donated his prize check of £500 for the best student paper in biomedical acoustics to be presented at the IOA’s next conference.
On accepting his award, Dr. Coussios said: “As a young researcher, I feel honored and encouraged. Acoustics enabled many life-changing developments in the course of the last century, ranging from supersonic flight to numerous architectural wonders. I very much hope that this Award will encour- age other young acousticians to work on what constitutes, in my view, the biggest acoustics challenge of the 21st century:
IOA awards Rayleigh Medal
Michael Howe, Professor of Theoretical Mechanics at Boston University, was awarded the 2007 Rayleigh Medal of the Institute of Acoustics for his outstanding contribu- tions to research, mainly in aeroacoustics stretching over almost four decades.
The Rayleigh Medal is awarded without regard to age to persons of undoubted renown for outstanding contributions to acoustics. It is normal- ly presented to a UK acoustician in even numbered years and an overseas acoustician in odd numbered years. The medal is named after John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1842- 1919), a very versatile physicist who conducted both experimental and the- oretical research in virtually every branch of the subject.
The presentation was made by Colin English, President of the Institute of Acoustics at the Institute’s Autumn Conference on Advances in Noise and Vibration Engineering at Oxford. Following receipt of his medal, Professor Howe presented a paper on the acoustics of fluid structure interactions.
Michael Howe’s published contri- butions to acoustics are numerous and span a wide range of topics, but are mainly in aeroacoustics, involving the interaction of sound with, or its gener- ation by, fluid flows and rigid or flexi- ble structures. Since 1997 he has also
published widely on pressure wave generation by the inter- action of high-speed trains and tunnels.
Colin English, President of the Institute of Acoustics, added, “Professor Michael Howe’s work is characterized by a profound insight into the most significant aspects of physical problems, and an outstanding gift for casting these problems in mathemat- ical form and for finding appropriate solutions. The impact of his research in the
fields of wave propagation in general, and acoustics in particular, has been enormous. For this reason the Institute of Acoustics is very proud to award him the 2007 Rayleigh Medal, which recognizes outstanding life time achievement in the field of acoustics.”
Michael Howe is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2001—2007).
IOA Young Persons’Award to Oxford University Acoustics Engineer
British inventor, Trevor Baylis OBE officiated at the Institute of Acoustics Awards dinner on 17 October in Oxford where Dr. Constantin-C. Coussios of Oxford
University received the Institute of Acoustics’ top prize in the 2007 Young Persons’ Award for Innovation in Acoustical Engineering, for his contributions to cancer therapy using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). The Award is sponsored by world leading noise con- trol company IAC Limited and celebrates the contribution of
Constantin Coussios (r) with Brian Quarendon (l) and Trevor Baylis (c).
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