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church of St. Sulpice featuring its famous organ. Over 1,300 people enjoyed the banquet held at the Maison de la Chimie; 626 attended the student lunch, and 230 attended the Women in Acoustics luncheon. The medals and awards ceremony was jointly sponsored by the ASA, EAA, and SFA. The award recipients are listed in Table 4. A press confer- ence was held at the meeting and many authors were interviewed by journalists during the week. The reporter for the American Association for the Advancement Science (AAAS) wrote articles cover- ing the meeting in Science magazine.
Eight technical tours were con- ducted, including visits to the European Acoustics Lab in the Building Industry, the Aerotechnical Institute, and various sites related to musical acoustics (Musical Acoustics Lab, IRCAM, and a tour of the organs of Paris). The ASA and EAA technical committees met together, and the ASA’s Public Relations Committee exchanged ideas with their European counterparts. Members from the ASA Student Council attended the meeting of EAA students who are looking into creating their own student council. The closing ceremonies on Friday fea- tured an excellent performance by the jazz band Les Flagada Stompers. Also, Jonathan Rathsam, an American singer, and Renzo Vitale, a European piano player, both graduate students in acoustics, gave excellent renditions of some Gershwin tunes and the U.S. national anthem. (It was the 4th of July, America’s Independence day.) Co-chairs Michael Vorländer, EAA; Bertrand Dubus, Manell Zakharia, SFA; and William Yost, ASA reflected on how successful Acoustics’08 Paris had been based on its scientific con- tributions and by providing a meeting place to renew or form new friend- ships with colleagues from around the world.
History of joint ASA/EAA meetings
1999—1st joint ASA/EAA meeting
The first joint meeting of ASA and EAA held in Berlin in March 1999 registered an attendance of 2,263. It combined the second EAA Forum Acusticum, the 137th meeting of the
Fig. 10. Technical Co-Chairs Michael Vorländer (EAA) and Bertrand Dubus (SFA) at TPOM.
Fig. 11. Acoustics’08 Paris Co-Chair William Yost (ASA) welcomes participants at Opening Session.
ASA, and the 25th anniversary of the German Acoustics DAGA conference. Up until Acoustics’08 Paris, it had been the largest meeting held solely on acoustics. The idea for the first joint meeting began with preliminary talks in 1993.
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