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Fig. 3. Peter Dahl planning on the R/V Shi-Yan 3 in the Asiaex experiment.
agreed to screen the students and recommend those who she felt would flourish in the American system.
Recently, Larry’s research interests have focused on med- ical ultrasound, particularly therapeutic ultrasound. He dis- covered on a visit there in 2001 that the Chinese have not only developed ultrasound systems that could perform tran- scutaneous tumor ablation, but had treated several thousand patients with a number of commercial systems. Accordingly, together with the assistance of Chinese colleagues, the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound was formed and annual symposiums have been held ever since. The 2011 Symposium was held in New York with over 300 attendees and over 200 papers presented.
The following are comments from Larry concerning Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong, “I strongly recommend develop- ing a working relationship with our Chinese colleagues. If you are an academic, they can help screen students so that you won’t be unpleasantly surprised when that student appears in your laboratory. If you are in industry, China is not just con- cerned with low-cost manufacturing, the percentage of their budget that they spend on Research and Development (R & D) is significantly more than that of the US. I travel to China 4 or 5 times a year to work with a medical device company, and my experience is that they are innovative, highly technical, and have strong government backing, and a reduced tax-rate, for high-tech industry. The ASA meeting in Hong Kong next year is an excellent opportunity to develop such a relationship and I strongly encourage you to attend.”
An interesting paper entitled “Fifteen Years of U.S.–China Cooperative Research in Underwater Acoustics: 1995–2010,” in the Proceedings of the Second International Shallow-Water Acoustics Conference (AIP conference proceedings 1272, Melville, NY, 2010) was authored by Drs. Ellen Livingston, Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Jeffrey Simmen, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington. The following is quoted from the abstract “The Office of Naval Research and the Chinese Academy of Sciences established and continue to encourage an unprecedented collaboration between the United States and China in the basic research field of ocean acoustics.” The abstract goes on to state “This cooperative research effort, primarily focused on shallow-water acoustics,
has varied over fifteen years. It has involved numerous researchers and institutions from the U.S., China, and other countries, and it has resulted in productive workshops, confer- ences, field experiments, research collaborations, and scientif- ic publications.”
Two large joint field experiments, the Yellow Sea Experiment (1996) and the Asiaex experiment (in the East China Sea and the South China Sea) have taken place in 2000 and 2001. Two shallow water acoustics conferences ensued— the first in Bejing in 1997 and the second in Shanghai in 2009. Participating scientists for the Yellow Sea Experiment came from the National Acoustics Laboratory in Beijing, Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in Guangzhou, Ocean University in Qingdao, Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The Chinese research vessels Shi-Yan 2 and the Shi-Yan 3 were involved. In the Asiaex Experiment, scientists came from the U.S., China, Korea, and Taiwan (Fig. 3). The U.S. R/V Melville, the Taiwanese R/V Ocean Researcher I and the Chinese research vessels R/V Shi-Yan 2 and R/V Shi-Yan 3 were involved in the various phases of the Asiaex Experiment.
Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong will be an exciting meeting and the opportunities to advance the field of acoustics as a result of this meeting will be many. Take advantage of this excellent opportunity and plan on attending Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong. AT
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