Saturday 26 July 2008

Graduation Ceremony July 2008


On Thursday 24th July the postgraduate ceremony took place at the Imperial War Museum. Linda and Pradeep are dressed in their best. Don't know what happened to the other 4 graduates? Was a fabulous day in the sunshine.Well done all.

Friday 25 July 2008

New Proven Wind Turbine tested on Kestrel House, Islington


The Acoustics Group have just completed the measurement and analysis of a new Proven wind turbine on Kestrel House, Islington, London. The 6 kW urbine has been installed on a 17 storey building undergoing refurbishment by Apollo. Continuing wind, noise and vibration measurements will be undertaken by Stephen Dance using Rion and Svantek equipment.

Friday 18 July 2008

Presentation to London Philharmonic Orchestra



On 17th July Stephen Dance and Georgia Zepidou presented to the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Gylndebourne. A joint 1 hour presentation on, "Noise Exposure and Noise Induced Hearing Loss- A Risk Assessment for the Royal Academy of Music", was given to a receiptive audience. Aaron Williamon from the Royal College of Music also presented on, "Hearing of Musicians". It looks like I'm wearing a mask!

Monday 14 July 2008

Georgia Presents in Paris


Georgia Zepidou presented her paper on, "An audiometry study of the students of the Royal Academy of Music". Georgia was erudite on Friday the 4th July at Acoustics 08. Luckily that was the day she presented.

Friday 11 July 2008

The Acoustics Group at Glyndebourne


Dr Stephen Dance and Georgia Zepidou will be presenting to the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Glyndebourne on Thursday 7th July 2008. The LPO want to raise awareness of hearing damage amongst classical musicians. And for us, its a nice day out!

Saturday 5 July 2008

Linda Liviani presents her MSc dissertation


On Friday 4th July Linda Liviani presented her MSc dissertation on urbines as a poster at Acoustics 08 in Paris. Linda explains the noise and vibration from the roof-top wind turbine.

Summer Internships

In the last weeks ,two summer jobs have been organised by the Acoustics Group for Nicky Shiers at RBA-Acoustics and Ben Dymock at telent plc. Good luck next week. Remember to come back and study on the MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics.

The Acoustics Group in Paris




Between June 30th and 6th July 2008 the Acoustics Group attended Acoustics 08 in Paris. Five papers were presented by Prof Shield, Christos Nestoras, Linda Liviani, Phil Wash, Georgia Zepidou. Salih and Bilgin Hassan joined us for the banquet at the Institute of Chemistry.
It may look like we drink a lot, but we did do some work! Although Steve Dance and Salva Morant were just taking it easy...

Christos Nestoras PhD Candidate presents in Paris


On Wednesday 2nd July at 8.20am (bloody early) Christos Nestoras presented his paper on quiet noise measurements using swept sine method in Paris. The event was organised by EAA/SFA/ASA and called Acoustics 08.