Acoustical Society of America
140th Meeting / NOISE-CON 2000 Press Luncheon News Release


ACOUSTICS PRESS LUNCHEON
AND LAY LANGUAGE PAPERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Melville, New York, May 18, 2000

Speakers will present some of the newest and most interesting discoveries in the science of sound at a press luncheon to take place at the Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and NOISE-CON 2000 which occurs from December 3-8 in Newport Beach, CA.

The luncheon will take place on Tuesday, December 5 at 11:30 AM in the Balboa Room of the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach, CA. The list of speakers and their topics can be found below. Reporters wishing to attend should fill out the reply form at the end of this release or contact Ben Stein (301-209-3091, bstein@aip.org).

In addition, the ASA World Wide Press Room ( www.acoustics.org ) contains detailed information on numerous results to be presented at the meeting. There you can find the meeting press release, lay language versions of a dozen meeting papers, and a searchable database of all abstracts for the meeting. Some examples of lay language papers are listed in the text that follows.

PRESS LUNCHEON TOPICS
Joint Meeting of the ASA and NOISE-CON 2000
Balboa Room
Newport Beach Marriott
Newport Beach, California
Tuesday, December 5
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

AUDITORY IMPLANTS FOR THE BRAINSTEM, MIDDLE EAR, AND INNER EAR

Sig Soli
House Ear Institute, Los Angeles
(213-353-7085, ssoli@hei.org

LOW-PITCHED "INFRASOUND" COMMUNICATION IN TIGERS AND OTHER ANIMALS

Elizabeth von Muggenthaler
Fauna Communications, North Carolina
(919-732-1322, fauna@rtpnc.net)

Lay language papers on this talk at www.acoustics.org/140th/muggenthaler2.htm and www.acoustics.org/140th/muggenthaler.htm

SMELLING VAPORS WITH SOUND

Edward Staples
Electronic Sensor Technology, Newbury Park , CA
(805-480-1994, staples@estcal.com)

More information at www.estcal.com and www.estcal.com/Press.html

THEME PARK ACOUSTICS

Marshall Long
Acoustical Consultant
(818-981-8005, mlong@pacificnet.net)

THE ACOUSTICS OF LIPOSUCTION

Carlos Camara
UCLA
(310-825-1842, camara@physics.ucla.edu)
Keith Weninger
Stanford
(650-725-8702, weninger@stanford.edu)

Lay language paper on this talk at www.acoustics.org/140th/camara.htm

FULL LAY LANGUAGE PAPER LIST:
http://www.acoustics.org/140th/lay_lang.html

SOME EXAMPLE PAPERS

Nanoscale Ears Based on Artificial Hair Cells
Flavio Noca
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, et al.

Targeted Drug Release Initiated by X-Rays or Ultrasound
Robert Apfel
Yale University

George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mechanique: Realizing a 20th-Century Work That Was Technically Ahead of Its Time
Paul Lehrman and Howard Woolf
Tufts University

Some Acoustics of the Shakuhachi (Japanese Flute)
Joe Wolfe and John Smith
University of New South Wales, Australia

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