What's New? Passing away of Leo Beranek Check for more information on PAGES 3. Agenda Publications Local News. Job position announcements

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1 What's New? Summary Agenda Publications Local News Job position announcements Deadlines and events are provided for the next two months (PAGE 2 & 3) This month we have a publication on Audiovisual Design (PAGE 4) DEGA Young professional (Germany) (PAGE 6) Links to available job positions (PAGE 6 & 7) Please contact us if you become aware of any changes Passing away of Leo Beranek Check for more information on PAGES 3

2 Agenda: Upcoming deadlines and events Upcoming in events November & December th 11 th November 2016: (Acoustics 2016) 2 nd Australasian Acoustical Societies' Conference. Brisbane (Australia) 11 th - 13 th November 2016: (DGPM) Symposion der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychoanalyse und Musik. Wien (Austria) 15 th -17 th November 2016: 32 nd Reproduced Sound Conference - Sound with Pictures - time is of the essence. Southampton (UK) 17 th & 18 th November 2016: Wind Turbine Sound Gdansk (Poland) 17 th - 19 th November 2016: (NSA2016) International Symposium on Acoustics for Engineering Applications. Gurgaon (India) 17 th - 20 th November 2016: (TMT29) 29 th Tonmeistertagung - VDT International Convention. Cologne (Germany) 24 th November 2016: Dega-Akademie-Kurs DEGA-Schallschatzausweis. Stuttgart (Germany) 28 th November 2 nd December 2016: (ASA 172 nd ) 172 nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America - 5 th Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan. Honolulu, Hawaii (USA) 5 th - 8 th December 2016: (IIIAE 2016) 8 th International Conference on Acoustic Emission - Inauguration Conference of 3IAE and 23 rd International Acoustic Emission Symposium. Kyoto (Japan) 6 th December 2016: 11 th Deggendorfer Akustik-Seminar (Hörakustik und Elektroakustik). Deggendorf (Germany) 7 th - 8 th December 2016: (ISAV 2016) 6 th International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration. Tehran (Iran) 10 th - 11 th December rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics. Irago (Japan) 12 th & 13 th December 2016: (Acoustics 2016) Acoustic and Environmental Variability, Fluctuations and Coherence. Cambridge (UK) 29 th - 30 th December 2016:(ICAA 2016) 18 th International Conference on Auditorium Acousics. Paris (France)

3 Agenda: Upcoming deadlines and events Submission deadlines in November & December st November 2016: (ICASSP 2017) 42 nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Registration for Signal Processing Letters papers (Full Paper) th November 2016: (INCE-Europe) Wind Turbine Noise 2017 (Abstract). 1 st December 2016: (ICSV 2017) 24 th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2017 (Abstract). 6 th December 2016: (AFPAC) Anglo French Physical Acoustic Conference (Abstract) th December 2016: (ÖGfMM) Jahrestagung er Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musik und Medizin (Abstract). Leo Beranek It is with sadness that we have learned the passing of Leo Beranek, 15 September October His contribution to Acoustics is too wide to be reviewed in a single paragraph. His name will remain as a synonym of the Acoustics of the 20th century and of the beginning of the 21st. Read a recent autobiography of Leo Beranek ( phy2016.pdf) or visit

4 YAN Publications Musicians usually have no opportunity to listen to their own instrument s sound in other conditions than at their usual place during rehearsal or performance. In a larger e learning project (see contribution of M. Kob et al.) the sound of orchestra instruments is auralized and visualized. Our motivation is to create an online, interactive user interface that shall offer easy access to a comprehensive analysis of instrument sounds and enable users to identify visual and aural changes in timbre depending on the playing style or listening position of an instrument. We present a set of video and audio recordings of orchestra instruments that are used as source signals for the auralization and visualization. The target group of the interactive orchestra sound project are teachers, students, musicians or acousticians. Various pitch ranges, registers, playing styles and radiation patterns are recorded and in a cooperation with the Network of Universities of Music arranged for educational use. This method gives musicians, music teachers and students a better understanding of instrument s acoustical properties such as sound spectrum, formant structure and directivity, and also serves teachers in acoustics as a reference of recordings and analysis methods of musical instruments and performance spaces. Banu Sahin has recently graduated as an honored student from a very comprehensive undergraduate program in "Audio Design / Engineering with a focus on music technologies at the Art and Design Faculty of Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul. She is currently a student in the last semester of Music Acoustics Master s Program (M.Sc.) at the Erich Thienhaus Institut of Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany. There she has been working on her Master s Thesis where she investigates subjective preferences in Detmold Concert Hall auditorium by comparing sensory evaluations and objective measurements using auralization method.

5 Local News The DEGA Young Professionals are a group of students, postgraduates and young acousticians within the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.v. (DEGA), the German acoustics association. As an official section, we represent the interests of young acousticians at the DEGA executive board and have a permanent seat at the DEGA board of advisers. We provide a network for acousticians across Germany and have a special newsletter for acousticrelated topics in Germany. Furthermore, we organize dedicated events as part of the annual conference DAGA. At next year s DAGA from 03/06/17 03/09/17 in Kiel, there will be a special Pre Colloquium, covering topics for young professionals. With support of the DEGA, we could organize our own three day workshop in 2015 and The last YP workshop was held from 09/22/16 09/24/16 at the Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen with 15 participants. Each participant provided an overview of their current field of research and was able to discuss open questions. Besides this, two industry representatives gave insight into their vita and their current task area, related to acoustics. If you want to join the DEGA YP, send an with your contact data to junge dega@dega akustik.de and like us on Facebook at For more information see

6 Job Position Announcements 1) Technology Acoustic engineer, Sound Solutions Austria, Vienna (Austria 2) Early stage researcher un Underwater acoustics, SiPLABoratory, Faro (Portugal 3) Engineer for Techniscal Support, Alava Ingenieros (Spain 4) Audio Systems Engineer at Oculus/Facebook, Menlo Park, CA (USA 5) Technical Program Manager at Sonos 6) PhD position in psychoacoustics, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (Germany 7) PhD Fellowships in Music Technology, MARL, New York University (USA 8) Post Doc/Research position in musical sound source separation, TELECOM ParisTech, Paris (France 9) PhD student position in acoustic signal processing, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden 11) Engineering and Software Internship at Dyson, Bath/Bristol (UK 12) Graduate acoustician at Arup (UK wide) 13) Two acoustic engineers for active noise control for automotive applications in Harman, Ittersbach (Germany Halosonic Systems Engineer: Senior Halosonic Systems Engineer: 14) Four year Ph.D. scholarship Prediction of the vibroacoustic behavior of a human head coupled with an earplug using the finite element method A 48 months Ph.D. funding (19000$ annual) is offered. There are possibilities to complement the amount of the scholarship by additional application for ETS excellence scholarships. The candidate will be registered at Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal (Canada) and will do his (her) Ph.D. at ICAR laboratory ( and LIO (Imaging and orthopaedics research laboratory He (she) will be cosupervised by Dr Franck Sgard, associate professor at ETS and by Pr J. De Guise and Pr Éric Wagnac (ETS). A beginning of the phd at the beginning of 2017 would be optimal. 15) Four year Ph.D. scholarship Vibroacoustic modeling of hearing protection devices using the finite element method. A 48 months Ph.D. funding (19000$ annual) is offered. There are possibilities to complement the amount of the scholarship by additional application for ETS excellence scholarships. The candidate will be registered at Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal (Canada) and will do his (her) Ph.D. at ICAR laboratory ( He (she) will be cosupervised by Dr Franck Sgard, associate professor at ETS and by Pr Olivier Doutres (ETS). A beginning of the phd at the beginning of 2017 would be optimal.

7 Job Position Announcements 16) Auralization specialist, Foster and Partners, London (UK A position for an auralization specialist is coming available in a research group. In addition to developing new auralization systems, main duties include producing auralizations of architectural spaces via a 12 channel loudspeaker array and head tracked headphones. Work is currently conducted using Max/MSP and EASE, though other options will be considered. An understanding of room acoustics and architectural construction methods would be helpful. The Specialist Modelling Group is a research and development consultancy within the architecture firm Foster+Partners. The group's role is to research and develop tools and methodologies to support and refine the design process. They directly support projects by modelling, coding, analysing and visualising complex problems. The group has long term research projects with universities and other companies and is heavily involved in many design competitions. They are now stepping up their efforts to integrate environmental and engineering analysis with their design tools. The group is involved in many projects, from urban master planning to furniture design. They are seeking an acoustician to contribute to a wide variety of research and architectural design projects. Current research in acoustics includes virtual and augmented reality presentations, wave based and geometric acoustic simulation techniques, acoustic visualization, spatial microphone array measurements, active noise cancellation, and directional loudspeaker technologies. Candidates with experience in automotive or aeronautic acoustics, sound design, architectural acoustic consulting, gaming, interactivity, or user experience are all welcome to apply. Excellent presentation skills are essential. Software experience with Max/Msp, acoustic simulation packages (CATT, EASE), Unity 3d, Rhinoceros 3d, Grasshopper and coding skills in Matlab,C#,or Python are helpful. Please contact probinson@fosterandpartners.com for more information. Please refer to the yan@euracoustics.org mailing list for more details. EAA YAN yan@euracoustics.org web: If you wish to stop receiving this newsletter, or cancel your membership, please contact the EAA yan chair at this address.