The International Year of Sound is upon us – an year-long initiative to disseminate knowledge and appreciation of sound, acoustics and related issues!
Jonathan’s ASA San Diego presentation wins a Best Paper Award!
Jonathan’s ASA San Diego presentation (“Perceived annoyance of Mach-cutoff flight ground signatures compared to common transportation sounds”) received a Technical Committee on Noise Best Paper Award!
SPRAL attends ASA San Diego!
Michelle, Jonathan and Zane all attended the 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, Dec 2-6 2019!
Jonathan presented his talk 1pNS8: “Perceived annoyance of Mach-cutoff flight ground signatures compared to common transportation sounds” – the abstract can be found here. (View all SPRAL conference presentation abstracts here!)
Zane managed to play at the ASA Jam again!
Jonathan Broyles is awarded a Travel Scholarship from NCAC
Jonathan was awarded a Student Travel Award from the National Council of Acoustical Consultants, presented to him at the 178th Acoustical Society of America conference at San Diego.
Picture from the NCAC’s news page:
Jonathan Broyles is the back row, 6th from the right.
Matthew Neal starts post-doc at University of Louisville
Matthew Neal, former SPRALite having recently acquired his Ph.D. in Acoustics, began his post-doc at the University of Louisville on November 11th 2019. His new position is working with Dr. Pavel Zahorik in the Zahorik Auditory Perception Laboratory.
Congrats again, Matthew!
SPRAL alumni Molly Smallcomb interviewed about experience in PSU Acoustics
SPRAL alumni Molly Smallcomb – who did an REU with SPRAL as an undergrad, and came back to the Graduate Program in Acoustics for grad school and joined the BASiL lab – was recently interviewed about her experiences in acoustics (including SPRAL) and an article was written! Check out the article here.
SPRAL Party 10/24/2019, and Concert Hall Gift Party!
Michelle managed to host one last SPRAL party while Matthew was still around!
L to R: Nick Ortega, Michelle Vigeant, Zhi Zhou, Jonathan Broyles, Zane Rusk, and Matthew Neal
Another party needed to happen before he split for his postdoc at the University of Louisville, though – assemble and mail out gifts to the concert halls he measured through his Ph.D. project!
Nick and Zane attend AES NYC 2019
Nick and Zane attended the 2019 Audio Engineering Society Convention in New York City!
They saw and heard some cool things… including but not limited to trying on a Magic Leap One for the first time, as part of a student poster demo…
Michelle presents at Acoustics Week in Canada 2019!
Michelle travelled back to her hometown of Edmonton, AB for Acoustics Week in Canada 2019, where she gave a keynote speech on October 10th!
Matthew and Michelle attend ICA and ISRA 2019!
Matthew and Michelle made their way to Germany for two conferences – the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) in Aachen…
and International Symposium on Room Acoustics 2019 (ISRA) in Amsterdam! Matthew presented at both, winning a Young Acousticians Award at ISRA.
Michelle co-chaired sessions at both conferences with Stefan Weinzierl. After the conferences, Matthew and Michelle attended performances at a few concert halls in Germany & Austria – without taking measurements!!!
Matthew confirmed that, indeed, when choosing content to listen to in world-renowned halls, orchestral performances are more appealing to the ear than repeated sine sweeps.