SPECIAL SESSIONS, ORGANIZERS

DESCRIPTIVE SENTENCES

ACOUSTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (AO)

New Technologies for Monitoring Fish—Active and Passive

(Joint with Animal Bioacoustics and Underwater Acoustics)

Organized by: Orest Diachok, Koji Iida, Kouichi Sawada

Focus on recent advances in multibeam and broadband technologies for monitoring the behavior, concentrations, and migration patterns of fish. It will include presentations on recent technical innovations and resulting discoveries about fish behavior

ANIMAL BIOACOUSTICS (AB)

Acoustic Animal Tagging

(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography)

Organized by: Christine Erbe, Tomonari Akamatsu

Methods and results of research using acoustic tags on animals

Biosonar

(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography, Underwater Acoustics, and Signal Processing in Acoustics)

Organized by: Whitlow Au, Hiroshi Riquimaroux, James Simmons

Detection, discrimination, and recognition of targets

Tropical and Sirenian Bioacoustics
Organized by: Thomas Norris, Kotaro Ichikawa, Junxian Shen

Acoustics of terrestrial and marine animals in the tropics

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS (AA)

Acoustics in Concert Halls

(Joint with Noise)

Organized by: Ning Xiang, Jiqing Wang, Zihou Meng

Development of new design features and fundamental research in concert hall acoustics. Designs and validations of recently grand-opened venues

Classroom Acoustics in Asia

(Joint with Noise and ASA Committee on Standards)

Organized by: Kenneth Roy, Xiang Yan

Acoustic and noise effects in classrooms. Topics of interest include architectural design for high performance or “green” rated schools, relationship of acoustics and student perception and performance, field case studies and research studies on noise and acoustics in schools, studies of teacher/student communications and performance

Development and Applications of Micro-Perforated Sound  Absorbers

(Joint with Physical Acoustics, Noise, and Signal Processing in Acoustics)

Organized by: Christian Nocke, Jonathan Botts

Theory and new developments of absorbers based on / derived from microperforation, various applications in different fields such as room acoustics, noise abatement, or car noise use

micro-perforated structures

Healthcare Acoustics

(Joint with Noise)

Organized by: Kenneth Roy, Erica Ryherd, Jerry Li

Acoustic and noise effects in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Topics of interest include evidence-based design (EBD) research or case studies on acoustic conditions in hospitals, staff or patient response, and architectural or noise control treatments

Multifamily Dwellings and Lightweight Structures

(Joint with Noise)

Organized by: Angelo Campanella, Jeffrey Mahn

Multifamily housing sound isolation developments and noise control issues

Multiple-Microphone Measurements and Analysis in Room Acoustics

(Joint with Signal Processing in Acoustics)

Organized by: Boaz Rafaely, Sam Clapp

Recent developments in multi-microphone methods involving microphone arrays and spatial-sampling systems, applied to measurements and retrieval of complex spatial data from sound fields in rooms, including measurement systems, signal processing, and experimental investigations

Objective and Subjective Parameters of Spatial Impression in Performing Arts Spaces

(Joint with Psychological and Physiological Acoustics)

Organized by: Michelle Vigeant, Jin Yong Jeon

Investigations of objective measures and/or subjective studies examining spatial impression, including listener envelopment and apparent source width, in classical music concert venues. Design examples of actual halls that emphasize spatial parameters are also included in this topic

Psychoacoustics in Rooms

(Joint with Psychological and Physiological Acoustics)

Organized by: Philip Robinson, Bernhard Seeber

Fundamental research and application of masking, speech transmission, spatial hearing, and auditory scene analysis within the context of room-acoustic environments, including but not limited to: source width, envelopment, distance perception, localization, loudness, noise, reverberance, scene analysis, speech intelligibility, and room synthesis

BIOMEDICAL ACOUSTICS (BA)

Acoustic Microscopy Imaging Methods for Biomedical Applications

(Joint with Physical Acoustics)

Organized by: Jonathan Mamou, Tadashi Yamaguchi

Recent advances in acoustic microscopy techniques for biomedical applications, fundamental methods and newest available technologies. Emphasis on all acoustic microscopy methods providing quantitative measurements

Biomedical Ultrasound Instrumentation

Organized by: Qifa Zhou, Lei Sun

Biomedical ultrasonic instrumentation such as B-mode Doppler,

ultrasonic transducer technology, and multi-modality approaches such as elastography and optical. Signal/image processing techniques as they relate to instrumentation and biomedical applications, such as blood/tissue characterization, will also be discussed

Bone Quantitative Ultrasound

Organized by: Pascal Laugier, Dean Ta

Physics of ultrasound propagation in bone (poroelasticity, scattering, guided waves, etc.) and signal processing techniques adapted to the measurement of quantitative ultrasound variables that can be used to characterize bone strength. Recent experimental findings and technological development will also be addressed

Subharmonic Contrast Imaging

(Joint with Physical Acoustics)

Organized by: Michel Versluis, Jeffrey Ketterling, Che-Chou Shen, Hairong Zheng, Christy Holland

Subharmonic response of acoustic contrast agents and in the context of theoretical derivations, in vitro experimentation, small-animal imaging studies, and clinical imaging applications

Ultrasound Enhanced Drug Delivery

Organized by: Constantin Coussios, Juan Tu

Investigation of novel sono-sensitive drug carriers for targeted drug release, ultrasound-mediated mechanisms for enhanced drug uptake and ultrasound-based methods of monitoring drug delivery

ENGINEERING ACOUSTICS (EA)

Acoustic Metamaterials

(Joint with Physical Acoustics)

Organized by: Thomas Howarth, Michael Haberman

The session will present leading international theoretical and experimental efforts that define and develop microscopic material compositions capable of introducing macroscopic acoustic effects

Acoustic Sensors and Actuators

(Joint with Underwater Acoustics and Biomedical Acoustics)

Organized by: Michael Scanlon, Zhushi Rao, Yichun Yang

Application of acoustic sensors and actuators for the purpose of reacting to acoustic stimuli, cancelling sound and vibration, and producing mechanical effects

Acoustic Well Logging and Borehole Acoustics

Organized by: Xiuming Wang, Hailan Zhang

The application of acoustic sensing to well logging to make detailed measurements of the geologic formations penetrated by a borehole, and to maintain awareness of equipment relating to the borehole's construction and utilization

Biomedical Transducers

Organized by: Ling Xiao

Transducers for physiological measurements, biomedical ultrasound, imaging, diagnostics, critical care and therapeutic equipment

Civil Non-Destructive Testing with Ultrasound or Other Non-Contact Methods

(Joint with Physical Acoustics)

Organized by: Michael Haberman, Wonkyu Moon

Sensors and methods to inspect civil structures through non-destructive methods, including non-contact and large stand-off distance methods

Flow Noise and Mitigation Methods

Organized by: Randolph C. K. Leung

Increase the understanding of flow-noise mechanisms related to both sound and vibration generation and propagation in air and water.  Specific interests include source mechanisms, flow over internal and external features, turbomachinery noise, flow tones and fluid instabilities, measurement and analysis techniques, fluid-structure interaction, and mitigation methods.  Computational, analytical, and experimental methods are all welcome

Mufflers and Silencers

(Joint with Noise)

Organized by: Y. S. Choi, Y. Y. Lee

Devices for reducing acoustic emanations, decreased detection and annoyance from automobiles, machinery, air-handling equipment, weapons, and other noisy sources

Sound Quality Engineering

(Joint with Noise and ASA Committee on Standards)

Organized by: Klaus Genuit, Kenji Ozawa

Sound quality engineering dealing with technical and perceptual issues is one of the key tasks in the product development process. Methods, tools, approaches, and applications in the field of product sound quality engineering will be presented and discussed

EDUCATION IN ACOUSTICS (ED)

Engaging in Effective Teaching Methods in Acoustics

Organized by: Wendy Adams, S. K. Tang

Highly interactive and engaging teaching experiences, including education research related papers

Teaching Acoustics on Both Sides of the Pacific

Organized by: Siu Kit Lau, Preston Wilson, Xiaojun Qiu

Experiences on how education in acoustics at all levels has evolved and is conducted in different countries on both sides of the Pacific

INTERDISCIPLINARY (ID)

Workshop on Publishing Excellence in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America    

Organized by: Ning Xiang, Li Cheng

The workshop will involve a number of invited speakers from JASA (including JASA Express Letters editorial board members and possibly from representative paper authors) to discuss the JASA peer-review process, the criteria for accepting manuscripts, and successful preparation of manuscripts for JASA publications

MUSICAL ACOUSTICS (MU)

Acoustics of Traditional Musical Practices and Instruments

(Joint with Psychological and Physiological Acoustics and Signal Processing in Acoustics)  

Organized by: Jean-Pierre Hermand, Stéphanie Weisser,Quan Zheng

Focus on traditional non-western musical instruments and practices, investigated from a multidisciplinary angle, with methodological and theoretical frameworks developed in different disciplines (Signal Processing, Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Musical Acoustics)

Asian String Instruments

Organized by: Chris Waltham, Tianreng Hua

Materials, construction, vibrational analysis of sound boxes, sound radiation, string properties

Asian Wind Instruments   

Organized by: James Cottingham, Shigeru Yoshikawa, Yuebei Wu

Acoustical characteristics of Asian wind instruments which have design constraints different from comparable Western instruments

Musical Timbre: Perception and Analysis/Synthesis

(Joint with Psychological and Physiological Acoustics)

Organized by: James Beauchamp, Andrew Horner

Timbre discrimination, classification, and dissimilarity judgment, timbral parameter estimation and visualization; timbre interpolation (morphing); and parametric sound synthesis

Singing Voice in Asian Cultures

(Joint with Speech Communication)

Organized by: Johan Sundberg Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Baoqiang Han

Special voice characteristics used in various types of vocal music in Asian cultures

NOISE (NS)

Active Noise Control

(Joint with Engineering Acoustics, Physical Acoustics, and Signal Processing in Acoustics) 

Organized by: Siu-Kit Lau, Xiaoding Li, Xiaojun Qiu, Jun Yang

Successful applications of active noise control depend on advanced technologies in signal processing, error sensing methods, placement of sources and sensors, etc. This session will discuss all topics regarding active control of sound and vibration

Aircraft Cabin Noise

Organized by: Anders Nilsson, Bilong Liu

Forum for technical presentations and exchange of ideas on technology developments that should lead to significant advances in comfort of aircraft cabins. Information from the session is expected to be useful in reducing the cost, increasing the affordability, and improving the acoustic performance

Annoyance and Health Effects

(Joint with ASA Committee on Standards)

Organized by: Klaus Genuit, K.C. Lam, A. Lex Brown

Noise may cause human annoyance and excessive exposure to noise will have an adverse effect on human health

Application of Geographic Information Systems to Manage and Control Urban Noise   

Organized by: Jian Kang, C.W. Law, Xianhui Li

Application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), noise mapping, and related techniques for the management and control of noise in various urban structures and cultures

Assessment and Measurement of Park Soundscapes

(Joint with ASA Committee on Standards and Animal Bioacoustics)

Organized by: Paul Schomer, Andre Fiebig, K.C. Lam

Methods to measure and assess park soundscapes and results of such research

Environmental Noise and Regulations

(Joint with ASA Committee on Standards)

Organized by: Robert Hellweg, Paul Schomer, Maurice Yueng, Jiping Zhang

Successful environmental noise regulations and the role of standards

Future of Acoustics: East and West

(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography)

Organized by: Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Michael Buckingham, L. Cheng

Talks to suggest the future of acoustics will include ASA, ASC, HKIOA, and WESPAC including a panel

Ground Transportation Noise

(Joint with Animal Bioacoustics, ASA Committee on Standards)

Organized by: David Woolworth, Wing Tat Hung, Ulf Sandberg

Measurement, prediction, and control of noise from road and rail sources. This session will also present the latest progress and review the state-of-the-art of low noise road surfaces

Impulsive Noise Exposure Metrics: Development and Validation

(Joint with ASA Committee on Standards, Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, and Animal Bioacoustics)

Organized by: Richard McKinley

Impulsive noise presents a specific and unique challenge in the development and validation of hearing damage risk criteria. Current metrics as well as the development of new metrics/exposure criteria, and data for validation of their metrics

Noise Effects on Occupant Comfort and Performance in Buildings

(Joint with Architectural Acoustics)

Organized by: Lily Wang, C. M. Mak

Explore the ways in which building affects the comfort of people inside and their performance of tasks

Noise Source Localization

Organized by: David Woolworth, Jun Yang, S. K. Tang

Advanced techniques in locating airborne, stationary, and moving noise sources

Numerical Methods in Noise

Organized by: R. C. K. Leung, Ke Liu

Many numerical techniques have been developed for the computation of noise radiation, generation, and propagation in air, water, and solid. Session will review these techniques and at the same time explore new approaches

Ship Noise and Vibration

Organized by: Lin He, Changgeng Shuai

Focus on the generation and propagation mechanisms of sound and vibration in ships and water, including flow-noise, propulsion shafting, large machinery and complex structures of ships. Development of the measurement, prediction, design, and control techniques for low-noise ships. Computational, analytical, and experimental methods are all welcome

Soundscape and Its Application

(Joint with Architectural Acoustics, Animal Bioacoustics, and ASA Committee on Standards)

Organized by: Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, K.C. Lam

Soundscape will be applied in community noise regulations as well as in urban planning

Vibration and Structure-Borne Noise in Buildings

(Joint with Structural Acoustics and Vibration and Architectural Acoustics)

Organized by: James Philips, C. M. Mak

Analysis, measurement, and control of vibration and structure-borne noise inside buildings from sources outside and within those buildings

Vibration Damping in Noise Control

(Joint with Structural Acoustics and Vibration)

Organized by: Wilson Ho

Vibration dampers have been used very frequently in controlling the radiation of noise in both the outdoor and indoor environment. Session will explore the effectiveness and advanced techniques in vibration damping

PHYSICAL ACOUSTICS (PA)

Acoustic Micro- and Nanofluidics

(Joint with Biomedical Acoustics)

Organized by: John Allen, Richard Manasseh, James Friend

Incorporation of ultrasonics techniques and technologies in micro- and nanofluidic devices and systems

Emerging Technologies and Concepts in Ultrasonics

(Joint with Engineering Acoustics)

Organized by: Preston Wilson, Won Suk Ohm

New ultrasonic concepts and techniques applied to industry and medicine

Metrics and Objectivity in Cavitation Research

(Joint with Biomedical Acoustics)

Organized by: Charles Church, Gail ter Haar, Suk Wang Yoon

How the chosen definition of cavitation influences the interpretation and quantification of its physical, chemical, and biological effects

Negative Radiation Forces Exerted by Acoustical and Optical Beams       

Organized by: Philip Marston, Jack Ng

Closely related recent discoveries in acoustics and optics have revealed the surprising result that time dependent propagating beams with certain time-dependent and spatially dependent shapes can cause a backward directed force to be exerted on small objects embedded in the medium

Sonoluminescence

Organized by: Lawrence Crum, Juan Tu, W. Z. Chen

Production of sonoluminescence and sonochemistry in liquids

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ACOUSTICS (PP)

Cortical Neuroimaging Techniques in Auditory Perception and Cognition     

Organized by: Adrian (KC) Lee, Lin Chen

Exploring ways in which the strengths of different neuroimaging techniques (such as EEG, MEG, and fMRI) can be used to uncover the role of auditory cortex in auditory perception and cognition

Current Issues in Auditory Cortex Physiology

Organized by: Christoph Schreiner, Jufang He

Recent developments in understanding the structure and function of auditory cortex

Open Challenges in Auditory Scene Analysis

(Joint with Animal Bioacoustics)

Organized by: Mounya Elhilali, Daniel Pressnitzer, Bosun Xie

Current challenges and articulate promising new directions in psychological, physiological, and computational approaches to solving the scene analysis problem

Psychological and Physiological Basis of Tonal Language Processing

(Joint with Signal Processing in Acoustics)

Organized by: Fan-Gang Zeng, Michael Tong

Exploring the role and coding of pitch in speech, and its implications for auditory prostheses

Release from Masking in Listeners with Normal and Impaired Hearing

Organized by: Ruth Litovsky, Liang Li

Focus on recent studies related to speech perception in the presence of interfering speech or noise, and the effects of hearing impairment on the ability of listeners to exhibit release from masking

STRUCTURAL ACOUSTICS AND VIBRATION (SA)

Energy Based Methods in Structural Acoustics

Organized by: Wen Li, M. N. Ichchou, Fusheng Sui

Analysis and experimental methods for determining the energy distributions and flows in mechanical and structural systems. Energy based methods and statistical techniques for structural and wave propagation are encouraged

Machinery Noise and Vibration

(Joint with Noise)

Organized by: Zhuang Li, Hongwei Liu

Noise and vibration issues associated with machinery, such as noise and vibration source identification, noise and vibration control, quiet machine design, health monitoring, and signal processing

Noise Control Methods for Aerospace Structures

(Joint with Noise)

Organized by: Gopal Mathur

Aircraft, launch vehicles, rotorcraft, etc.

SPEECH COMMUNICATION (SC)

Speech Perception and Early Language Development:

Cross-Linguistic Studies of English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Organized by: Benjamin Munson, Estella Ma

Behavioral and neurophysiological studies of the development of speech perception and spoken language in the three languages of Hong Kong

SIGNAL PROCESSING IN ACOUSTICS (SP)

Model-Based Processing and Analysis

(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography and Underwater Acoustics)

Organized by: Ning Xiang

Signal processing methods based on (not limited to) physical models, parametrical models, and other types of models in application of acoustics

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS (UW)

Advances in Underwater Acoustic Communication and Networking

(Joint with Signal Processing in Acoustics)

Organized by: Daniel Rouseff, Wen Xu, James Preisig

Single- and multi-carrier methods in high data rate wireless communications. Self-organizing, adaptive, or distributed undersea networks

Rough Interface Scattering from Ocean Boundaries

(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography and Physical Acoustics)

Organized by: Marcia Isakson, Zhaohui Peng, Jin-Yuan Liu

The effect of rough interface scattering on the reflection, backscattering, and propagation of acoustic waves in shallow water waveguides from the air/water interface, fluid type ocean bottoms, elastic type ocean bottoms, and layered bottoms

Sediment Acoustics of Continental Shelves

(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography and Physical Acoustics)

Organized by: Nicholas Chotiros, Ji-xun Zhou, Shengchun Piao, Zhenglin Li

Measurement, modeling, and inversion of sediment acoustic properties of continental shelves. Processing techniques that exploit active or passive waveguide invariance for detection, classification, and tracking

Session in Honor of Barry Uscinski

(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography)

Organized by: Michael Buckingham, Terry Ewart

Session honoring the contributions of Barry Uscinski in the field of underwater acoustics

Time Series Analysis and Data Processing in Underwater Acoustics

(Joint with Signal Processing in Acoustics)

Organized by: Nicholas Chotiros, Chao Sun

Both active and passive time series and data processing in underwater acoustics applications are solicited. The passive application may include noise or sources of opportunity such as marine mammal vocalizations, and the active applications may include large time bandwidth signals. Common issues include dynamic range considerations and data compression

Underwater Acoustics in Asian Marginal Seas: Field Experiments and Modeling

(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography)

Organized by: Peter Dahl, David Bradley, John Colosi, Peter Worcester, Jeewong Choi, Fenghua Li

Field measurements and modeling of underwater acoustic propagation and scattering phenomena with focus on Asian marginal sea environments

Waveguide Invariance Characterization and Processing

(Joint with Signal Processing in Acoustics)

Organized by: Kevin LePage, Lisa Zurk, Alex Sell, Shihong Zhou

Characterization of invariance as a function of environment and aperture

HOT TOPICS

Community Noise Policy Development

Organized by: Marion Burgess, Aaron Lui

Development of policy, guidelines and directives in the planning, control and abatement of the various types of noise affecting the community. Main sources of community noise include road, rail, air traffic, industry, construction and public work, and the neighborhood.

Noise Around Airport

Organized by: Ichiro Yamada, Chee K Lee

Government officials, acousticians, noise control professionals and planners are facing increasing challenges in planning and managing
aircraft noise impacts in the vicinity of airports under a growing concern on improving the noise environmental quality and unlimited
increasing demand on air traffic. In this workshop, views and experiences from the following topics would be shared and exchanged:
(1) aircraft/airport noise regulations;
(2) planning, assessing and engaging public in aircraft/airport noise impacts; and
(3) aircraft noise monitoring and management practices.

3D Sound

Organized by: Yang Hann Kim, Jung Woo Choi

Signal processing and implementation issues associated with spatial impression of sound, which includes sound field control, HRTF-based audio rendering, spatial audio coding, loudspeaker array designs..

Aeroacoustics

Organized by: Xiaodong Li , Fang Hu

Recent research advances in aeroacoustics, including developments of new Computational Aeroacoustics (CAA) methods, advanced testing techniques and innovative noise control strategies for aerodynamic noise from aircraft, high speed train and wind turbine.