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lasted over three hours. None of the students knew before- hand who was chosen. (See Fig. 1) The scene was repeated on Friday when over 400 Grand Awards of the entire ISEF were presented. Bridget Oei, one of ASA’s winners, was selected as one of the Second Awards winners in the category Energy and Transportation. She received $1,500 from ISEF.
To celebrate innovations that have the potential to solve global problems, the Intel SciArt Series featured art inspired by ISEF projects. They paired artists with high school stu- dents at the ISEF to create original pieces of art based on sci- entific breakthroughs. Forty-two pieces of art were selected, among them was Bridget Oei. (See Fig. 2) The artist was Jesse Kirsch, a graphic designer based in Portland, Oregon, who has been practicing professionally for eight years and who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Matt, Fred, and I highly recommend that, if given the opportunity to represent the ASA at ISEF, you should do so. You will not regret it. The entire Fair could only be called stellar. The staff ran a tight, well-organized program. It’s hard to believe that the students were from high schools throughout the world—they were the most exciting part of the program. The Fair even included a panel of eight Nobel Laureates who addressed the students and answered their questions. The highest Grand Award went to a fifteen year old student who created a simple dip-stick sensor to test blood or urine to determine whether or not a patient has early stages of pancreatic cancer. His study resulted in over 90% accuracy and showed his patent-pending sensor to be 28 times faster, 28 times less expensive and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests. His award was $75,000. We repeat, stellar. – Dick Stern.
Fig. 2. Artwork inspired by the work of Bridget Oei by artist Jesse Kirsch.
Calendar of Meetings and Congresses
Compiled by the Information Service of the International Commission for Acoustics
2013
16–18 Jan
15–17Mar 17–20 Mar
17–22 Mar 18–21Mar 23–25 Apr
1–4 May
Frejus, France - 12th Anglo-French Physical Acoustics Conference (AFPAC 2013) https://www.sfa.asso.fr/afpac2013.html Merano, Italy - EAA Winter School http://www.aia-daga.eu.html
Les Arcs, France - Electroceramics for End- users VII (PIEZO 2013) http://www.piezoinstitute.com
Les Houches, France – Winter School on Therapeutic Ultrasound http://houches.ujf-grenoble.fr/
Merano, Italy - AIA-DAGA 2013 / EAA EUROREGIO
http://www.aia-daga.eu
Marrakech, Morocco - 1st Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Stuctural Dynamics and Vibroacoustics (MEDYNA 2013) http://www.medyna2013.com
Singapore - 3rd International Congress on
20–23May 26–31 May
02–07 Jun
04 Jun
Ultrasonics (ICU 2013) concurrently organ- ized with the 32nd International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging (AI 2013) http://www.epc.com.sg/ICU 2010.pdf
Hong Kong - 2nd Symposium on Fluid- Structure-Sound Interactions and Control http://www.fssic2013.com/
Vancouver, Canada - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) http://www.icassp2013.com
Montreal, Canada - 21st International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2013), 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, and 52th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association http://www.ica2013montreal.org
Montreal, Canada - Sound in the Sea: Recent Discoveries and Applications http://www.dosits.org
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