Volume 14, Number 4, December, 2006 - Noise News International

Asia-Pacific News ..................................................................... Marion Burgess, Asia-Pacific Editor
AUSTRALIA
ACTIVE 06 was a Huge Success
The Sixth International Symposium on Active Control
of Sound and Vibration, ACTIVE 2006, was held
from the 18th to 20th September in Adelaide by the
SA Division in collaboration with the University of
Adelaide. The conference was deemed a huge success
by all who attended and the organising committee
received numerous communications from delegates
thanking the organisers. The organising committee
is particularly grateful to all those who took part in
the conference and the sponsors who made the event
possible. The companies that sponsored the event were
Brüel and Kjær, Texcel, HW Technologies, Acticut
International, Kingdom and Polytech.
The conference featured 73 technical papers on
a range of topics written by 149 authors from 17
countries. Two papers of note were those which
won prizes; James Mabe of Boeing Phantom works
was awarded the best paper prize for his paper
on ‘Boeing’s morphing aerostructure for jet noise
reduction’, and Noah Schiller of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University was awarded the best
student prize for his paper on ‘A high authority / low
authority strategy for coupled aircraft-style bays’.
There were five keynote speakers: Sen Kuo (Northern
Illinois University, Illinois, USA), Marty Johnson
(Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA), Scott Sommerfeldt
(Brigham Young University, Utah, USA), Jie Pan
(University of Western Australia) and Paolo Gardonio
(Institute of Sound and Vibration, Southampton, UK).
All the keynote speakers presented their latest findings
in the area of active control of sound and vibration.
Steve Elliott (Institute of Sound and Vibration,
Southampton, UK) presented a special paper on the
natural feedback mechanisms within the inner ear
which sparked a lot of interest.
The conference reception was held at the SA Art
Gallery, where delegates were entertained by the
South Australian chapter of the Australian Girls Choir
and treated to drinks and canapés. The following
evening the conference banquet was held at the
Stamford Grand Hotel in Glenelg. The famous H-
type Adelaide trams were loaded with champagne
and used to transport delegates back and forth to
Glenelg. So that none of the international delegates
left Australia without having seen a kangaroo, a tour
of the Adelaide Zoo including drinks and canapés was
arranged for the Tuesday evening. The conference
concluded on Wednesday with a BBQ held on the
University grounds, where delegates got a chance to
eat some genuine Australian cuisine, including some
of our macropodidae national icon.
The CD-ROM prepared for the symposium contains
not only the papers presented at ACTIVE 06, but also
the 561 papers presented at ACTIVE 04, ACTIVE
02, ACTIVE 99, ACTIVE 97, and ACTIVE 95. The
CD-ROM can be purchased from the organizers
for AUD 220, which includes GST, shipping, and
handling. Contact the AAS Secretary, School of
Mechanical Engineering, the University of Adelaide,
S.A. 5005 Australia. Fax: +61 8 8303 4367. E-mail:
luke.zoontjens@mecheng.adelaide.edu.au.
The SA division of the AAS wishes to thank INCE/
USA for the opportunity to hold this conference.
Mike Kidner and Carl Howard
ACTIVE 2006 Chairmen
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND
Noise of Progress
The first joint Annual Conference of the Australian
and New Zealand Acoustical Societies was held in
Christchurch from 20 to 23 November 2006 with
the theme the Noise of Progress. Of the almost 200
registrants, three quarters had travelled across the
water from Australia. The conference commenced
with a plenary address which was an overview of
underwater acoustics given by Chris Tindle from the
University of Auckland. The plenary on the second
day was given by Michael Vorlander from Aachen
University on building acoustics from prediction to
auralisation. Over 87 contributed papers were given
in the three parallel sessions for the two and a half
day conference.
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The ACTIVE 06
Proceedings are
Available
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