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Fig. 4. Members of TPOM, Paris, February 2008.
Fig. 5. TPOM members inspect rooms at Palais des Congrès.
poster sessions, and assigned times and meeting rooms and poster locations for each session. The large number of abstracts, and the fact that only 25 meeting rooms were available, made it necessary to assign a larger percentage of poster presentations than for a typical meeting. No lecture presentations were scheduled during the time allocated for posters to ensure that attendees would have adequate time to attend poster sessions.
The TPOM representatives were aided in their formidable task by a software management program which pre-sorted the abstracts by subject and session, and then allowed the representatives to manipulate papers electronically (Fig. 7) with some help by master computer controller Didier Cassereau (Fig. 8). The abstracts, along with their assigned times and locations, were arranged to mini- mize conflicts (Figs. 9 and 10). The sorted abstracts were then sent elec- tronically across the Atlantic Ocean to ASA’s headquarters in NY. There the ASA staff, headed by Elaine Moran, with the assistance of the American Institute of Physics, creat- ed the 1,000-page program which
was mailed to ASA members. The completed program was then sent back electronically across the ocean to the EAA, where Dick Botteldooren, the editor of Acta Acustica united with Acustica, pro- duced the meeting program for EAA members.
Fig. 7. TPOM members plan their technical sessions.
Fig. 6. Pascal Laugier explaining the abstract organization process.
and 15 (Fig. 4) at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI is the site of the labo- ratory where Madame Curie discovered radium over a century ago). The TPOM representatives first inspect- ed the meeting spaces in the Palais des Congrès (Fig. 5) and learned about the process for sorting abstracts (Fig. 6). Then they sorted papers into lecture and
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