8th MidSouth ASA Chapter Meeting

Photos from the 8th Meeting of the MidSouth ASA Chapter
The University of Mississippi, Oxford MS
April 15-16, 2011:


Trey French, physics student at the University of Central Arkansas, presents his poster entitled, ``Determination of Elastic Moduli in Brass, Aluminum, Wood and Plastic Rods Using Resonance.''	John Lahmann (right), physics student at the University of Central Arkansas, presents his poster entitled, ``Testing system components for a low-frequency, impulsive Helmholtz Resonator'' while Ken Bader, physics graduate student at the University of Mississippi, points to an interesting photograph on the poster.

Asami Nishikawa, physics student at the University of Central Arkansas, presents her poster entitled, ``Aeroacoustic Source Strength Measurement of Helmholtz Resonators.''	Tristan Odekirk, physics student at the University of Central Arkansas, presents his poster entitled, ``Speed of a Pulse on a Taut Wire'' to Qin Zhang from Ole Miss.

Ashley Cooper (left) and Asami Nishikawa (right), both physics students at the University of Central Arkansas enjoy a conversation prior to the Ole Miss baseball game.	(left to right) Trey French, Tristan Odekirk, John Lahmann and Skip Thurman, physics students at at the University of Central Arkansas pose for the camera prior to the Ole Miss baseball game.

A group of Rhodes College physics students enjoy the spring weather prior to the start of the Ole Miss baseball game.	A group of Rhodes College physics students enjoy the spring weather prior to the start of the Ole Miss baseball game along with research scientists from the University of Mississippi.

Meeting attendees enjoy the weather while watching the Ole Miss baseball game.	Ken Bader, physics graduate student at the University of Mississippi gives a thumbs up with the Ole Miss baseball stadium in the background.

Ole Miss baseball players doing the pledge of allegiance prior to the start of the game.	Play ball! Ole Miss is up at bat!

An Ole Miss baseball player adjusts his glove prior to the play.	Brian O'Reilly (LIGO Livingston) gives a fascinating presentation entitled, ``Vibration Isolation for Advanced LIGO,'' which describes the various mechanical vibration isolation techniques used at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory located in Livingston, LA.

Audience members listen to presentations in the auditorium in the National Center for Physical Acoustics.	Audience members listen to presentations in the auditorium in the National Center for Physical Acoustics.

Dan Costley from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center illustrates a point during his presentation entitled ``Vibrational and Acoustic Response of Transient Bridge Loading.''	Rasheed Adebisi from the National Center for Physical Acoustics gives a presentation entitled ``Equilibrium Dynamics of Palladium Hydride near the Tri-Critical Point.''

Zhiqu Lu from the National Center for Physical Acoustics gives a presentation entitled ``LDV-based MASW technique for near surface soil exploration.''	Joseph Gladden (right) introduces Qin Zhang (left) both from the National Center for Physical Acoustics before her presentation entitled ``Mechanical Properties of Poly(vinylidene fluoride) nanocomposite thin films containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes.''

Sumudu Tennakoon from the National Center for Physical Acoustics pauses during his presentation entitled ``High Temperature Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopic (RUS) Study of Elastic Properties of Novel Ceramics used in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC).''.	Nathan Murray from the National Center for Physical Acoustics gives his presentation entitled ``Measurements of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Related Surface Pressure Fluctuations.''

John Paul Abbott (Ole Miss) gives a presentation entitled, ``Investigation of the Time Dependent Relationship between the Vertical Wind Velocity and Pressure Fluctuations over Flat Open Ground.''	(l to r) Joshua Lieblong (University of Mississippi), Carl Frederickson and Stephen Addison from the (University of Central Arkansas) converse during the poster session. Doug Shields (National Center for Physical Acoustics) is in the background to the right.