COVID Pandemic and Its Impact on ASA Members A modified version will appear in the summer 2021 issue of Acoustics Today – DOI 10.1121/AT.2021.17.2.02 How Are ASA Students Being Impacted by the Pandemic? ‘Bubble’ took on an entirely new meaning to...
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University of WashingtonLocation: Seattle, WA Job Description: The University of Washington seeks an energetic & empowering leader for the position of Executive Director of the Applied Physics Laboratory.Job Title: Executive Director of the Applied Physics...
Dr. Jim West outside Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Jim West, Acoustical Society of America’s (ASA) President from 1998-1999, has been a Fellow of the Society since 1985[1]. The Minority Fellowship, established in 1992, was renamed the James E. West...
Welcome to the fourth installment of The World Through Sound. In previous articles we discussed properties of sound, including sound speed, and wavelength. Today, we are going to take a step back and consider sound on a more fundamental level. We are going to discuss...
Some notes about the sound files that accompany “The Invention and Evolution of the Piano” by N. Giordano I have selected several sound files that contain snippets of some well-known music to illustrate aurally the differences between an early piano and a...
Current Issue From the Editor | Arthur N. Popper From the Editor | Arthur N. Popper From the President | Lily Wang From the Editor in Chief | James Lynch Mechanical Speech Synthesis in Early Talking Automata – Gordon J. Ramsay Early attempts at synthesizing...
What’s going on in ASA Publications? With three scholarly journals and a magazine, it can be hard to keep up with everything going on with Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Publications! To help readers “navigate” this plethora of information, we have a variety of...
Welcome to another installment of The World Through Sound. Last time we talked about Acoustic Impedance, and how horns are actually a kind of transformer, and operate in a way analogous to how a lever makes a large mass easier to move. In this article, we will talk...
Acoustics Today News ...sound off, let us know what you think - March 2019 M T W T F S S « Feb 123 45678910 11121314151617 18192021222324 25262728293031 Historical Biographies in Acoustics: Ernest Glen Wever – Elle O’Brien Jan 10, 2019...
To view or download the full issue, click the cover image. To read an individual article, click its title. From the Editor – Arthur N. PopperFrom the President – Peggy Nelson Featured Articles The Sound from Underwater Explosions – David R....
Welcome to the fifth installment of Interviews with Interview with Latin American Acousticians. You can find the previous interviews at http://acousticstoday.org/accolti.Today we interview Professor Pablo Luis Rendón from the Autonomous National University of Mexico....
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Acoustical Society of America The premier international scientific society in acoustics, dedicated to increasing and diffusing the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications. Enjoy the latest Acoustical Society News… Residential Quietude, the Top...
Goals and Achievements Task Force 1 – Awareness of Acoustics Task Force 2 – Membership Engagement and Diversity Task Force 3 – Dissemination of Information and Knowledge Task Force 4 – Financial Stewardship Download or View Files Executive...
To view or download the full issue, click the cover image. To read an individual article, click its title. From the Editor Featured Articles Acoustics of Organ Pipes and Future Trends in the Research – by Judit Angster, Péter Rucz, and András Miklós What Is...
Welcome to the sixth installment of Interviews with Latin American Acousticians. You can find the previous interviews at http://acousticstoday.org/interviews-south-american-acousticians/.In this installment, we will talk with Professor Gustavo Basso from La Plata,...
One of the most exciting things a student learns about the ear is that the cochlea, the snail-shell shaped organ in the inner ear where sound is transduced into an electrical signal carried by the auditory nerve, is arranged very particularly. In humans, high...
Strategic Leadership for the Future Summit Participants Back Row Left to Right: Clark S. Penrod, Michael R. Stinson, Kenneth W. Good, Jr., Alex U. Case, David T. Bradley, Stan Dosso, DJ Tang, Christopher Struck, James H. Miller, Eric Thorsos, Josh R. Gladden,...
Among the list of the Acoustical Society’s Gold Medalists, there is a recipient whose contributions to the Society are intriguingly summarized: “for fundamental contributions to physical acoustics and biomedical ultrasound and for innovative leadership in electronic...
To view or download the full issue, click the cover image. To read an individual article, click its title. From the Editor Featured Articles Computational Methods and Techniques Across Acoustics – Grant C. EastlandUltrasonic Hearing in Cats and Other Terrestrial...
The World Through Sound - Andrew (Pi) Pyzdek Andrew “Pi” Pyzdek is a PhD candidate in the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics. Andrew’s research interests include array signal processing and underwater acoustics, with a focus on sparse...
The Acoustical Society of America honors Dr. Per V. Brüel, a leader in acoustics and acoustic instrumentation, who passed away on April 2 2015, just after his 100th birthday, March 6, 2015. For more than 75 years Dr. Brüel has been in the forefront of acoustic...
In the first line of Ernest Glen Wever’s final book, The Amphibian Ear, Wever describes his subject (pp.3):“The name Amphibia literally signifies “both lives” and refers to the proclivity of many of these animals for alternating between aquatic and terrestrial...
Let me briefly introduce our first acoustician. He is Professor Alberto Behar, one of the founders and the first President of the Argentine Association of Acousticians. Over the course of his career in acoustics, Professor Behar has done research on the accuracy of...
To view or download the full issue, click the cover image. To read an individual article, click its title. Featured Articles DE MOTU SONI – Rev. William DerhamATHANASIUS KIRCHER’S PHONURGIA NOVA- THE MARVELOUS WORLD OF SOUND DURING THE 17TH CENTURY –...
Multimedia Files associated with this article: Video Files: video-1-bending.mp4 video clip showing the first three bending modes of a baseball bat video-2-bat-vibes.mp4 video clip showing high-speed video bats vibrating after collision with ball...
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Table of Contents Acquired Hearing Loss: Are Prevention and Reversal Realistic Goals?. 2 Colleen Le Prell 2 U-boat Predators in the Great War: “A Problem of Physics, Pure and Simple”. 3 Roy Manstan. 3 The Acoustics of the Modern Jazz Drum Kit 4 K. Ellington Scott 4...
