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Fig. 12. Poster sessions held in the Palais des Congrès.
Further discussions between the ASA and EAA resulted in the German Acoustical Society (DEGA) offering to hold the conference at the Technical University of Berlin with Michael Möser as general chair for the EAA and Jiri Tichy for ASA. The Technical Program Organizing Meeting (TPOM) was held in Norfolk, Virginia in 1998 with David Havelock as the technical program chair. The three organizations were represented at the meeting in Berlin by James West (President of ASA), Jens Blauert (Chair of EAA), and Jacob Scheuren (President of DEGA). The first joint meeting in 1999 built a strong foundation for holding the sec- ond joint meeting in Paris.
Acoustics’08 Paris—2nd joint ASA/EAA meeting
Based on the success of the first joint ASA/EAA meeting, it was inevitable that a second one would be considered. In September 2001, the SFA proposed Paris, France to be the site of the 2007 International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), with Manell Zakharia as general chair. Madrid was subsequently selected, and shortly thereafter representatives from the ASA consulted with the SFA to determine whether they would be inter- ested in hosting the 2nd joint ASA/EAA meeting in Paris in 2008. The proposal for the joint meeting was approved by the boards of the SFA, the EAA, and the ASA by the end of 2001. A description of sub- sequent events beginning in 2002 is given above.
Conclusion
The second joint ASA/EAA meeting, like the first, provided an important avenue for advancing the many fields of acoustics. It brought together acousticians from Europe and North America as well as from other parts of the world, almost a thousand of whom were students. We believe this meeting created a sound basis for future collaboration. All of this was made possible thanks to funding support from 17 public and private sponsoring organizations (Table 5). We hope that Acoustics’08 Paris advanced the interna- tional dynamism of this discipline and invigorated the enthusiasm of the younger generation of acousticians in this ever changing world.
Fig. 13. ASA exhibit booth (Elaine Moran (l) and Kelly Quigley (r).
Fig.14. Presidents Gilles Daigle (ASA)(l) and Luigi Maffei (r) (EAA).
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