The 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America will convene jointly with NOISE-CON 2010, the 26th annual conference of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA), on April 19 to 23, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore.

During the meeting, worldwide experts in acoustics will report on research that draws from scientific disciplines as diverse as medicine, music, psychology, engineering, speech communication, noise control, and marine biology.

The following list highlights some of the meeting’s talks:

  • Voice Analysis: DETECTING EMOTIONAL STATE
  • Acoustics and Sports: MEASURING CROWD NOISE
  • Neuroscience: HEARING THROUGH NOISE
  • Musical Acoustics: THE PHYSICS OF BANJOS
  • Building Acoustics: GREEN BUILDINGS
  • Acoustic Ecology: CENSUS BY SOUND
  • Classroom Acoustics: IMPROVING THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
  • Medicine: PORTABLE ULTRASOUND
  • Engineering: MEASURING TURBULENCE
  • Neuroscience: THE VOICE AND THE BRAIN
  • Animal Acoustics: HOW BATS FORAGE FOR FOOD
  • Medicine: ANTIFUNGAL ULTRASOUND

Other highlights/sessions:
For a complete list of abstracts for any of these sessions, go to the searchable index for the 159th Meeting and enter the session number with asterisk (eg, 1aNSa*).

Monday
– Acoustics of Green Buildings (1aAAa*), 8 am – noon
– Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (1aPP*), 8 am – noon
– Diagnostic Applications of Ultrasound (1aBB*), 8 am – 11:30 am
– Musical Acoustics: Stringed Instruments (1aMU*), 9:30 am – 12:15 pm
– Wind Turbine Noise (1pNSd*), 1:15 pm – 2:40 pm
– Community Noise (1pNCa*), 1 pm – 3:15 pm

Tuesday
– Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury (2aBB*), 8:30 am – noon
– Musical Acoustics: The Contemporary Traditional Violin (2aMU*), 8 am – noon
– Space Vehicle Vibroacoustics (2aSAb*), 10:30 am – 11:30 am
– Acoustics and Public Policy (2pNSc*), 1 pm – 4:10 pm
– Estimating Spatial Density of Animal Populations with Passive Acoustics (2pAAb*), 1 pm – 3 pm

Wednesday
– Animal Hearing and Vocalization (3aABb*), 10:30 am – noon
– Measurement and Modeling of the Acoustic Properties of the Banjo (3aMU*), 8:30 am – noon
– Sound Source Localization (3aPP*), 9 am – 11:30 am
– Military Noise Environments (3aNSa*), 8:10 am – noon

Thursday
– Architectural Acoustics: Hidden Gems (4aAAb*), 8:30 am – 9:25 am.
– Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration (4aBB*), 8 am – noon
– Music Processing: Neural Mechanisms and Hearing Impairment (4aPP*), 8 am – 11:40 am
– The Interface Between the Human Rights and Scientific Communities (4pID*), 2 pm – 3:25 pm
– Speech for Tracking Human Health State, Performance, and Emotional State (4pSCa*), 1 pm – 4 pm

Friday
– Auditory Attention, Learning and Memory: From Neurons to Behavior (5pAB*), 1 pm – 4:20 pm
– Ultrasonic Characterization of Bone (5pBB*), 1 pm – 5 pm
– Outdoor Sound Propagation (5pPAa*), 1 pm – 3:15 pm

The Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel is located at 700 Aliceanna St in Baltimore; main number: (800) 228-9290.

Useful links:
Main meeting Web site: http://asa.aip.org/baltimore/baltimore.html
Full meeting program: http://asa.aip.org/baltimore/program.html
Searchable index: http://asa.aip.org/asasearch.html
Hotel site: www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bwiwf-baltimore-marriott-waterfront/

The Acoustical Society of America, Melville, NY, is an international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and technology of sound. Its 7,500 members worldwide represent a broad spectrum of the study of acoustics. 

[Source: American Institute of Physics]