Previous Meetings:
- 5th Meeting: October 2009 at The University of Mississippiheld jointly with the Mississippi Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. A brief overview of a few of the talks is presented here: Dr. Lee Bolen from The University of Mississippi presented a general audience presentation entitled "Concepts in Architectural Acoustics" which included a campus tour to the Paris-Yates chapel and the Ford Center to illustrate the acoustic characteristics of each. Dr. Charles Langston provided an overview of acoustics research that goes on at the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) at the University of Memphis. Dr. Tom Muir from the University of Mississippi presented a general audience talk entitled "Musical Acoustics with Smart Phone Applications" which showed how smart phone applications allowed him to study his restored American reed "pump" organ which were popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lastly, Dr. Andi Petculescu from the University of Louisanna at Lafayette presented sounds on other planets - from the whimsical "What would music sound like on Mars or Venus?" to the serious "Could hearing thunder on Venus confirm a lightning strike?" All presentation abstracts are available in the meeting proceedings. Photos from the meeting are also available.
- 4th Meeting: March 2009 at The University of Central Arkansas. Students from a diverse range of institutions (high school, undergraduate, and graduate) presented their research at the meeting as well as faculty and research scientists. A few of the presentations of note include: Chris Allen from NASA's Johnson Space Center speaking about noise control on the International Space Station, Haydar Al-Shukri from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock presented findings that indicate the presence of an unknown earthquake fault line in the New Madrid seismic zone, David Luneau, also from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, presented how acoustics is used to look for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and David Peterson from The University of Central Arkansas presented the art and science behind marimba bar tuning. All presentation abstracts are available in the meeting proceedings. Photos from the meeting are also available.
- 3rd Meeting: September 2008 at The National Center for Physical Acoustics. Dr. Ken Gilbert from the National Center for Physical Acoustics gave a general audience lecture entitled "Outdoor Sound Propagation" and Dr. Keith Attenborough from The Acoustics Center at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, gave a general audience guest lecture entitled "Noise And Its Control." Meeting minutes and proceedings unavailable.
- 2nd Meeting: April 2008 at The Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) on the University of Memphis campus. Meeting minutes and proceedings.
- 1st Meeting: November 2007 at The National Center for Physical Acoustics. Guest speaker: Dr. Larry Crum from the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound. Meeting minutes and proceedings unavailable.
To return to the main page click here.