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Virtual Acoustics @DDW
The Building Acoustics is present at the Dutch Design Week 2019 (19-27 October) in Eindhoven with a Virtual Acoustics demo. You can listen to your own voice in real-time in virtual environments with high realism. Read more about our story here and visit us. The entrance is free.
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Urban Sound Symposium
The urban sound symposium took place in Ghent from, April 3-5 2019. All information on this exciting event can be found at https://urban-sound-symposium.org, where presentation documents will be uploaded soon. I had a keynote on Auralization Technology, here is the link to the pdf of the presentation.
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Winterschool!
A graduate-level training in the fundamental and applied aspects of computational acoustics is held in Le Mans, 10-14 December of this year, don’t miss it! More information can be found here.
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PhD Defence and symposium
At June 25th, Fotis Georgiou will publicly defend his PhD thesis Modeling for auralization of urban environments: incorporation of directivity in sound propagation and analysis of a framework for auralizing a car pass-by (PDF). The defence is preceded by a symposium with presentations from Dr. Jens Ahrens, Dr. Tapio Lokki and two PhD students from Dutch…
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Acoutect Summer School Gothenburg
In week 3 of 2018, the first Acoutect Summer School was held in Gothenburg on Modern sustainable building concepts. During this meeting, the Early Stage Researchers of Acoutect met the supervisors for the very first time! Experiences of this week will soon be shared, keep an eye on www.acoutect.eu.
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PhD defence Remy Wenmaekers
Remy Wenmaekers has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Stage acoustics and sound exposure at November 22nd at TU/e! The PhD thesis can be found at this website. The defence was very special, as it was the first time a PhD degree was issued by an associate professor in the Netherlands. (Pictures | Photodette)
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Summerschool
Maarten has lectured on time-domain methods in acoustics in the summerschool organized by the European Acoustics Association. Maarten’s lecture slides are available here!
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Kick-off STW project
At Wednesday May 18, the kick-off of our STW project ‘Tools to Tackle Environmental Health project’ took place in Eindhoven. Our PhD students presented their results and the user committee was represented by TNO, the municipality of Eindhoven and the Harbour of Rotterdam. The project description can be found here.
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Summer School in Porto
At June 11 and 12, the European summer school on Acoustics for (PhD) students will be held in Porto. Many fascinating topics on acoustics will be lectured, and my part relates to numerical methods in acoustics. Please register here.
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Soundwalk Rome
At January 28, partners of the EC FP7 project ‘SONORUS: the urban sound planner’ have carried out a survey of the acoustic environment of the Colloseum and Palatino area in Rome. From Eindhoven, Fotis Georgiou, Raúl Pagan, Nicole van Hout and Maarten Hornikx participated.
