Photos from the 6th Meeting of the MidSouth ASA Chapter
The University of Central Arkansas, Conway AR
March 12-13, 2010:

Josh Lieblong, physics student at the University of Central Arkansas, presents his poster entitled, ``Ultrasound Evaluation of Human Motion.''	Dustin Morris, physics student at the University of Central Arkansas, presents his poster entitled, ``Behavior of a Helmholtz Resonator Driven at High Amplitudes.''
Asami Nishikawa, physics student at the University of Central Arkansas, presents her poster entitled, ``The Effect of a Helmholtz Resonator's Neck Geometry on the Aero-Acoustic Excitation of Resonance.''	Attendees at the Friday evening social at Mike's Place in downtown Conway, AR. Seated left to right are: Swaminadham Midturi (UALR), Cecille Labuda (Ole Miss), Brent Hoffmeister (Rhodes), Guangyan Li (Ole Miss), Roland Johnson, Carl Frederickson (UCA), Josh Gladden (Ole Miss) and Bradley Goodwiller (Ole Miss).
Rasheed Adebisi (Ole Miss) gives a presentation entitled, ``Elastic Constants of Palladium Hydride at Elevated Temperature and Pressure.''	Guangyan Li (Ole Miss) gives a presentation entitled, ``Acoustic Signature of Dopant Precipitation in the Thermoelectric Alloy Silicon Germanium.''
Swaminadham Midturi (UALR) gives a presentation entitled ``Aircraft Engine Components Vibrations Research.''	Bob Dunn (Hendrix) illustrates a point during his presentation entitled ``Detection of Seismic/Infrasound Emissions from Convective Storms and Volcanoes.''
Stephen DiGiacomo (Southwestern Energy) gives an interesting presentation on the history of noise pollution entitled ``Mapping Environmental Noise Pollution: An Integrated Approach.''	Bryce Docker (BD Acoustics) gives a presentation entitled ``LNG Compression Station Noise Monitoring and the LDN Metric'' and shows a map displaying regions of natural gas drilling.
Greg Bracci (B&K) displays a slide showing natural gas well locations in the lower 48 states during his presentation entitled, ``Environmental Noise Impact of Urban Gas Well Drilling.''	Cecille Labuda (Ole Miss) describes the medical uses of ultrasound with emphasis on her work in High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU).
Dr. Brent Hoffmeister (Rhodes College) gives a presentation entitled ``Optimal spatial averaging for ultrasonic backscatter measurements of bone.''	Xin Chen (UAMS) makes a point durind his presentation entitled, ``7T MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Delivery in Small Animals.''
Rongmin Xia (UAMS) displays a schematic during his presentation ``The Transducer Design Considerations of SonoKnife for Superficial Large-size Tumor.''	Duo Chen (UAMS) shows a diagram of the geometry of a cylindrical ultrasonic transducer during his presentation ``Numerical Characterization of the SonoKnife’s Acoustic Edge.''
Michael Borrelli (UAMS) describes the objectives of using ultrasound to ensonify microbubbles to help dissolve blood clots in his presentation ``Optimizing Microbubble-Ultrasound Interactions for Maximal Sonothrombolysis In Vitro.''	Jinxiang Xi (UALR) gives an introduction to his numerical modeling of the respiratory passages in his presentation entitled ``Effect of Respiratory Anatomy on Expiratory Airflow and Acoustics in Human Nasal Airways.''
Samuel Atcherson (UAMS & UALR) answers a question about audiology during his presentation entitled ``Effect of Aging and Noise on Brainstem Responses to Speech.''	Shaum Bhagat (UM) gives a presentation entitled ``Estimates of human cochlear compression from distortion-product otoacoustic emission input-output functions and tone detection.''
Laura Smith-Olinde (UAMS & UALR) gives a description of the anatomy of the human ear during her presentation entitled, ``Overview of Binaural Hearing.''	Jim Chambers and Bradley Goodwiller (not pictured) (Ole Miss) describe an acoustic technique to aid catfish farmers in their presentation ``Development and evaluation of an acoustic device to estimate size distribution in catfish production ponds.''

Photographs taken by William V. Slaton.

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