The Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition is an historic joint meeting, bringing together heavyweights from the influential Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Acoustical Society of China (ASC) and other leading associations for the first time.
Hosted by the Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics (HKIOA), the conference will take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from May 13 to 18.
The event represents the first collaboration between the ASA, ASC, HKIOA and the Western Pacific Commission for Acoustics. The joint meeting features the 163rd meeting of the ASA, the ninth meeting of the ASC and the 11th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, says Tom Ho, HKIOA chairman and general co-chairman of the conference.
At the conference, more than 1,300 insightful study papers will be presented by academics at top-notch research institutes and specialists of private corporations from 36 countries and regions. Of these, 1,076 papers will be orally presented in 131 parallel sessions running continuously throughout the event. Another 131 papers will be presented through posters.
The papers deal with a broad range of acoustics-related topics, including architectural acoustics, signal processing, biomedical acoustics, psychological and physiological acoustics, underwater acoustics, noise and vibration, structural acoustics, aircraft noise, and speech and hearing. The conference is expected to attract more than 1,500 participants.
The conference will feature four keynote lectures: 'Language Learning and the Developing Brain: Cross-Cultural Studies Unravel the Effects of Biology and Culture', presented by Dr Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington; 'Acoustic Diode', presented by Cheng Jianchun and associates at Nanjing University; 'Acoustics of Traditional Chinese Theatres', by Wang Jiqing of the Institute of Acoustics at Tongji University in Shanghai; and 'Reservoir Acoustics and Its Applications', by Wang Xiuming of the Institute of Acoustics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
