Special Sessions

We are planning many special sessions of contributed papers, as well as welcoming contributed papers from all areas of acoustics. To date, the planned special sessions and their organizers include those listed below. If you would like to propose and/or organize a special session in your technical area, please contact the Technical Co-Chair, Kimary Shahin <kns3@sfu.ca> as soon as possible.

Acoustical Consulting—Current Challenges/Future Opportunities (Clair Wakefield, Wakefield Acoustics Ltd. and Doug Whicker, BKL Consultants Ltd.);

Architectural and Classroom Acoustics (Brad Gover and John Bradley, National Research Council, Murray Hodgson, UBC and Linda Rammage, Vancouver General Hospital/UBC);

Auditory Scene Analysis (Claude Alain, University of Toronto);

Biomedical Acoustics (Tarek El-Bialy, University of Alberta);

Environmental Noise/Vibration (Bill Gastmeier, HGC Engineering Ltd.);

First Nations Languages Acoustics (Kimary Shahin, Simon Fraser University);

Green Building Acoustics (Maureen Connelly, BCIT);

Occupational Noise (Hugh Davies, UBC);

Occupational Noise Standards (Stephen Bly, Health Canada);

Psychological Acoustics (Kathy Pichora-Fuller, University of Toronto)

Second Language Acquisition Acoustics (Murray Munro, Simon Fraser University);

Sound Absorbing Materials (Raymond Panneton and Camille Perrot, Université de Sherbrooke);

Speech Perception and Automatic Speech Recognition (Terrance Nearey, University of Alberta);

Speech Production and Speech Disorders (Linda Rammage, Vancouver General Hospital/UBC and Bryan Gick, UBC);

Thermoacoustics (Luc Mongeau, McGill University);

Underwater Acoustics (Stan Dosso, University of Victoria)

Vibroacoustics (Noureddine Atalla, Université de Sherbrooke).