A block of guest rooms at discounted rates has been reserved for meeting participants at the Town & Country Hotel. Early reservations are strongly recommended.  Note that the special ASA meeting rates are not guaranteed after 7 October 2011. 

Please make your reservation directly with the Town & Country Hotel.  When making your reservation, you must mention the Acoustical Society of America to obtain the special ASA rates.  Alternatively, reservations can be made directly online at the website listed below, which has been set up specifically for the Acoustical Society of America where the meeting rates and all applicable information is incorporated.
Town & Country Hotel
500 Hotel Circle North
San Diego, CA 92108
   
Toll free: 800-772-8527
T:  619-291-7131
FAX: 619-294-4681
http://www.towncountry.com

RESERVATION PROCEDURES

Online Reservations
https://resweb.passkey.com/go/2b707282

ROOM RATES

Single:  $135.00
Double: $145.00
Triple:   $165.00               
Quad:   $185.00
   
All rooms are subject to tax (currently 12.5%).  Check in time is 3:00 p.m. and check out time is 11:00 a.m. Internet service in guest rooms can be purchased separately for $9.95 (24-hour period).  You can sign up for this when you arrive at the hotel.  Internet is provided in the lobby at no charge, and ASA will provide an Internet Café for limited use.

San Diego is served by a number of airlines through the San Diego International Airport (Airport code SAN), which is conveniently located three miles northwest of downtown San Diego. Additional airport flight information is available at www.san.org .

There is a variety of ground transportation options between the San Diego International Airport and the Town and Country Hotel that include taxi, shuttle, public transportation or car rental. You can review the choices at www.signonsandiego.com/feature/285/air_trans.html

Taxi: The Town and Country Hotel is about 8 miles from the San Diego Airport. Follow the signs leading to the Transportation Plazas. A Transportation Coordinator will place you with the first available taxi unless you specify a particular taxicab company. For more information, visit www.sandiego.org/nav/Visitors/GettingAround/TaxiServices

Super Shuttle shared-ride, door-to-door service: Shuttle vans and buses are operated by off-airport companies. Super Shuttle cost is $11.00 USD per person one-way ($10.00 USD with the ASA discount if booked on line in advance). Transit time is approximately 15- to 30-minutes, depending on the number of passenger drop offs. No reservations are required from the airport, but if you wish to receive the ASA discount, you must make your reservation on line. For the Super Shuttle discount go to www.supershuttle.com/default.aspx?GC=49RV6 and type San Diego Airport and choose “Hotel/Popular Landmarks,” then search for "Town and Country.” This website is already set up with the ASA discount code. Shuttle service is available at the Transportation Plazas across from Terminals 1 and 2 (cross the sky bridge, then down to street level), and curbside at the Commuter Terminal. You can access the Airport Terminal Map at

Major car rental companies: You can use the courtesy phones located in the baggage claim area to request shuttle transportation to the car rental company of your choice.

Public Transportation via Bus or San Diego Trolley: Public transportation services are available from the airport between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. daily. Information can be found at <http://www.san.org/sdia/transportation/public.aspx>.

Driving information from the airport: The Town and Country Hotel is located at the intersection of Interstate 8 and 163. The address is 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA 92108. Driving information from other areas can be found at the hotel’s website.

From the San Diego Airport (SAN) head west on Airport Terminal Rd, keep right at the fork and turn left at N. Harbor Dr. Turn left on W. Grape St and take the Interstate 5-S ramp. Take exit 16 to merge onto CA-163N. Take exit 3B for Interstate 8-W. Follow signs for Hotel Circle. Turn right at Hotel Circle North. Turn into the hotel entrance for parking and/or drop-off. The transit time is approximately 15-minutes.

Parking at the Town and Country: The on-site parking fee at the Town and Country Hotel for guests is $8.00 daily. For others, it is $3.00 for the first hour, and $2.00 each additional hour, not to exceed $16.00 daily.

To encourage student participation, a student transportation subsidies fund has been established to provide limited funds to students to partially defray transportation expenses to meetings. Students presenting papers who propose to travel in groups using economical ground transportation will be given first priority to receive subsidies, although these conditions are not mandatory. No reimbursement is intended for the cost of food or housing. The amount granted each student depends on the number of requests received. To apply for a subsidy, submit a proposal by e-mail to be received by 26 September 2011 to: Jolene Ehl, jehl@aip.org.

The proposal should include your status as a student; whether you have submitted an abstract; whether you are a member of ASA; method of travel; if traveling by auto; whether you will travel alone or with other students; names of those traveling with you; and approximate cost of transportation.

Messages for attendees may be left by calling the Town and Country Tel: 619-291-7131 ext. 3941 and asking for the ASA Registration Desk during the meeting, where a message board will be located. This board may also be used by attendees who wish to contact one another.

Registration is required for all attendees and accompanying persons. Registration badges must be worn in order to participate in technical sessions and other meeting activities.

Registration will open on Monday, 31 October, at 7:30 a.m. in the Atlas Foyer of the Town and Country. Checks or travelers checks in U.S. funds drawn on U.S. banks and Visa, MasterCard and American Express credit cards will be accepted for payment of registration. Meeting attendees who have pre-registered may pick up their badges and registration materials at the pre-registration desk.

Registration fees are as follows:

Nonmembers who register for the full meeting week and simultaneously apply for Associate Membership in the Acoustical Society of America will be given a $50 discount off their dues payment for the first year (2012) of membership. Invited speakers who are members of the Acoustical Society of America are expected to pay the registration fee, but nonmember invited speakers may register for one-day only without charge. A nonmember invited speaker who pays the full-week registration fee, will be given one free year of membership upon completion of an ASA application form.

NOTE: A $25 FEE WILL BE CHARGED FOR CANCELLATIONS AFTER 26 SEPTEMBER. 

Online registration is available at <http://acousticalsociety.org>.

Special note to students who pre-registered online: You will also be required to show your student id card when picking-up your registration materials at the meeting.

The ASA has purchased assistive listening devices (ALDs) for the benefit of meeting attendees who need them at technical sessions. Any attendee who will require an assistive listening device should advise the Society in advance of the meeting by writing to: Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Email: asa@aip.org

The technical program includes 106 sessions with 1035 papers scheduled for presentation during the meeting.

Session Chairs have been instructed to adhere strictly to the printed time schedule, both to be fair to all speakers and to permit attendees to schedule moving from one session to another to hear specific papers. If an author is not present to deliver a lecture-style paper, the Session Chairs have been instructed either to call for additional discussion of papers already given or to declare a short recess so that subsequent papers are not given ahead of the designated times.

Several sessions are scheduled in poster format, with the display times indicated in the program schedule.

The first character is a number indicating the day the session will be held, as follows:

1-Monday, 31 October

2-Tuesday, 1 November

3-Wednesday, 2 November

4-Thursday, 3 November

5-Friday, 4 November

The second character is a lower case “a” for a.m., “p” for p.m., or “e” for evening corresponding to the time of day the session will take place. The third and fourth characters are capital letters indicating the primary Technical Committee that organized the session using the following abbreviations or codes:

AA Architectural Acoustics

AB Animal Bioacoustics

AO Acoustical Oceanography

BA Biomedical Acoustics

EA Engineering Acoustics

ED Education in Acoustics

ID Interdisciplinary

MU Musical Acoustics

NS Noise

PA Physical Acoustics

PP Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

SA Structural Acoustics and Vibration

SC Speech Communication

SP Signal Processing in Acoustics

UW Underwater Acoustics

In sessions where the same group is the primary organizer of more than one session scheduled in the same morning or afternoon, a fifth character, either lower-case “a,” “b,” or “c” is used to distinguish the sessions. Each paper within a session is identified by a paper number following the session-designating characters, in conventional manner. As hypothetical examples: paper 2pEA3 would be the third paper in a session on Tuesday afternoon organized by the Engineering Acoustics Technical Committee; 3pSAb5 would be the fifth paper in the second of two sessions on Wednesday afternoon sponsored by the Structural Acoustics and Vibration Technical Committee.

Note that technical sessions are listed both in the calendar and the body of the program in the numerical and alphabetical order of the session designations rather than the order of their starting times. For example, session 3aAA would be listed ahead of session 3aAO even if the latter session began earlier in the same morning.

Hot Topics session 3pIDa will be held on Wednesday, 2 November, at 1:00 p.m. in Garden Salon 1. Papers will be presented on current topics in the fields of Education in Acoustics, Noise, and Physical Acoustics.

The meeting will be highlighted by an exhibit which will feature displays including computer-based instrumentation, scientific books, sound level meters, sound intensity systems, signal processing systems, devices for noise control and acoustical materials, active noise control systems and other exhibits on acoustics.

The exhibit will be held in the Town and Country Room adjacent to the registration area and conveniently located near the meeting rooms. It will open on Monday, 31 October, and will close on Wednesday afternoon, 2 November.

The opening reception will be held starting at 5:30 p.m. One free drink will be provided to each registrant who attends the reception. On Tuesday exhibit hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

Morning and afternoon refreshments will be available in the exhibit area. Contact the Exhibit Manager for information about participating in the exhibit: Robert Finnegan, Advertising and Exhibits Division, American Institute of Physics, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502, Tel: 516-576-2433; Fax: 516-576-2481; E-mail:rfinnegan@aip.org

The 2011 Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education will be awarded to Robert C. Coffeen, University of Kansas, at the Plenary Session on Wednesday, 2 November.

Robert Coffeen will present the Acoustics Education Prize Lecture titled “Teaching architectural acoustics to architecture, architectural engineering, and music students” on Wednesday, 2 November, at 2:10 p.m. in Session 3pED in Royal Palm 3/4.

The 2011 Munk Award will be presented to William A. Kuperman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at the Plenary Session on Wednesday, 2 November. The Munk Award and Medal are granted jointly by The Oceanography Society, the Office of Naval Research, and the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy. There have been eight recipients since the award was established in 1993.

William Kuperman will present the Munk Award Lecture titled “Acoustical oceanography and shallow water acoustics” on Wednesday, 2 November, at 2:10 p.m.in Session 3pAO in Pacific Salon 2.

A tutorial lecture on Acoustics of Green Buildings will be given by Ralph T. Muehleisen of the Illinois Institute of Technology on Monday, 31 October, at 7:00 p.m. in Session 1eID in the Sunrise Room.

As the world realizes the considerable environmental impacts of building construction and operation, a strong movement to create more sustainable buildings, i.e. "green" buildings has developed. In this tutorial presentation, the sustainable building movement will be reviewed, the major design differences between green and conventional buildings explained, and the impact of green design on acoustics will be explored. There will be animations and auralizations to help attendees better understand acoustic impacts of green building design choices. Finally, the presentation will discuss solutions to the green building acoustic problem and present some of the positive impacts of green buildings can have on acoustics.

Lecture notes will be available at the meeting in limited supply.  Those who register by 26 September are guaranteed receipt of a set of notes.

To partially defray the cost of the lecture a registration fee is charged. The fee is $15 USD for registration received by 26 September and $25 USD at the meeting. The fee for students with current ID cards is $7 USD for registration received by 26 September and $12 USD at the meeting. Register online or use the downloadable registration form.

A short course on Signal Processing in Acoustics will be given on Sunday, 30 October, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Monday, 31 October, from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Royal Palm 3 and 4.

In the world of acoustics research, measured signals and the need for signal processing are ubiquitous. In addition, signal processing software packages (e.g., MATLAB, IDL, etc.) have become widely available, allowing scientists to leverage their efforts through sets of powerful algorithmic tools. Simultaneously, these packages provide the ability to make fundamental thinking errors with unprecedented speed, devastating effect and confidence. Such errors are often the result of paying inadequate attention to the assumptions used to derive signal processing algorithms and how the algorithms degrade when the assumptions are not met. The objective of this course is to focus on practical aspects of signal processing theory and how they apply to projects in acoustics.

The short course will be taught by Grace Clark, Visiting Research Professor of the Center for Cyber Warfare at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA on professional research and teaching leave from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Clark’s expertise is in statistical signal/image processing estimation/detection, pattern recognition/machine learning, sensor fusion, communication, and control.

The full registration fee is $300 USD ($125 USD for students) and covers attendance, instructional materials and coffee breaks.  The number of attendees will be limited so please register early to avoid disappointment.  Only those who have registered by 26 September will be guaranteed receipt of instruction materials.  There will be a $50 USD discount off the full registration fee (discount does not apply to student fee) for registration made prior to 26 September.  Full refunds will be made for cancellations prior to 26 September.  Any cancellations after 26 September will be charged a $25 USD processing fee.  Register online or use the downloadable registration form.  If you miss the preregistration deadline and are interested in attending the course, please send an email to asa@aip.org.

The Undergraduate Research Exposition will be held Wednesday morning, 2 November, at 10:00 a.m. session 3aED in the Atlas Foyer. The 2011 Undergraduate Research Exposition is a forum for undergraduate students to present their research pertaining to any area of acoustics. It is intended to encourage undergraduates to express their knowledge and interest in acoustics and foster their participation in the Society. Four awards, up to $500 each, will be made to help undergraduates with travel costs associated with attending the meeting and presenting a poster.

Technical Committees will hold open meetings on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings at the Town and Country. See schedule for rooms.

These are working, collegial meetings. Much of the work of the Society is accomplished by actions that originate and are taken in these meetings including proposals for special sessions, workshops and technical initiatives. All meeting participants are cordially invited to attend these meetings and to participate actively in the discussions.

A tour of the Conrad Prebys music center at the University of California, San Diego will be held on Thursday, 3 November, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The Conrad Prebys music center includes the last concert hall designed by Cyril Harris, a lecture/recital hall, rehearsal rooms, and an experimental music room incorporating an active acoustic system. All of these are well isolated from each other as well as from the noise of passing busses on the adjoining street and aircraft noise from the nearby Marine Corp Air Station.

A bus will leave the Town and Country hotel at 9:00 a.m. Travel time to the music center is about 15 minutes and the tour will last approximately 2.5 hours. The tour is hosted by Meyer Sound and so there is no charge to participants.

Tour registration at the meeting will be on a space-available basis. Register online.

An evening to remember with the Hutchins Consort performance at the San Diego meeting is scheduled on 2 November at 7:00 p.m. in the Sunrise room at the Town and Country Hotel. The Hutchins Consort plays on the eight-scaled violins of the violin octet designed and built by famed luthier Carleen Hutchins. The instruments are the first successful attempt to create an acoustically balanced set of instruments that can sound truly like violins across the entire range of written music.The Hutchins Consort plays music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the music of the modern masters. With original compositions and transcriptions commissioned by the Catgut Acoustical Society for the octet of violins, and new transcriptions by members of the Consort, The Hutchins Consort displays a breadth and depth that few traditional groups match, and a sound that is truly unique.

Carleen Hutchins was an Honorary Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, best-known for her creation, in the 1950s/60s, of a family of eight proportionally-sized violins now known as the violin octet (e.g., the vertical viola) and for a considerable body of research into the acoustics of violins. If you are not familiar with Dr. Hutchins, and her work, you can view a short documentary

on the web on how she used her knowledge of acoustics to make her fine instruments.

A plenary session will be held Wednesday, 2 November at 3:30 p.m. in the San Diego and Golden West Rooms. The Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education will be presented to Robert C. Coffeen. Distinguished Service Citations will be presented to Uwe J. Hansen and Richard Stern. The Silver Medal in Signal Processing in Acoustics will be presented to Theodore G. Birdsall, the Trent-Crede Medal will be presented to Peter R. Stepanishen, and the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal will be presented to J. Christopher Jaffe.

The Science Writing Award in Acoustics for Journalists and the Science Writing Award for Professionals in Acoustics will also be presented.

Certificates will be presented to Fellows elected at the Seattle meeting of the Society.

Meetings of ANSI Accredited Standards Committees and their advisory working groups will be held at the dates on times listed in the Schedule of Committee Meetings and Other Events.

Meetings of Accredited Standards Committees S1, Acoustics; S2, Mechanical Vibration and Shock; S3, Bioacoustics; S3/SC1, Animal Bioacoustics, and S12, Noise, as well as the Standards Plenary meeting, are open meetings and all attendees are invited to attend and participate in the acoustical standards development process.

Meetings of selected advisory working groups are often held in conjunction with Society meetings and are listed in the calendar or on the standards bulletin board in the registration area, e.g., S12/WGI8-Room Criteria.

People interested in attending and in becoming involved in working group activities should contact the ASA Standards Manager for further information about these groups, or about the ASA Standards Program in general, at the following address: Susan Blaeser, ASA Standards Manager, Standards Secretariat, Acoustical Society of America, Suite 114E, 35 Pinelawn Road, Melville, NY 11747; Tel.: 631-390-0215; Fax: 631-390-0217; Email: asastds@aip.org.

Morning coffee breaks will be held each day from 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. On Monday and Thursday the breaks will be held in the Golden Foyer and the Devonshire Patio. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the breaks will be held in the Town and Country room in conjunction with the Exhibit. An afternoon break will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. in Town and Country room in conjunction with the Exhibit. On Friday the coffee break will be held in the Golden Foyer.

Terrace Salon 3 will be set up as an A/V preview room for authors’ convenience, and will be available on Monday through Thursday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

The ASA Meeting Papers Online site can be found at scitation.aip.org/asameetingpapers/

Authors of papers to be presented at meetings will be able to post their full papers or presentation materials for others who are interested in obtaining detailed information about meeting presentations. Submission procedures and password information have been mailed to authors with the acceptance notices.

Those interested in obtaining copies of submitted papers for this meeting and the immediate past meeting may access the service at anytime. No password is needed.

The upcoming meeting of the Acoustical Society of America will have a published proceedings, and submission is optional. The proceedings will be a separate volume of the online journal, “Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics” (POMA). This is an open access journal, so that its articles are available in pdf format without charge to anyone in the world for downloading. Authors who are scheduled to present papers at the meeting are encouraged to prepare a suitable version in pdf format that will appear in POMA. The format requirements for POMA are somewhat more stringent than for posting on the ASA Online Meetings Papers Site, but the two versions could be the same. The posting at the Online Meetings Papers site, however, is not archival, and posted papers will be taken down six months after the meeting. The POMA online site for submission of papers from the meeting will be opened about one-month after authors are notified that their papers have been accepted for presentation. It is not necessary to wait until after the meeting to submit one’s paper to POMA. Further information regarding POMA can be found at the site http://asadl/poma/for_authors_poma. Published papers from previous meetings can be seen at the site http://scitation.aip.org/POMA.

Computers providing e-mail access will be available 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Thursday and 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Friday in the Town and Country room. Wireless access will be available in the Atlas Foyer throughout the meeting.

Complimentary buffet socials with cash bar will be held on Tuesday, 1 November, and Thursday, 3 November, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Golden Pacific Ballroom.

All meeting attendees are invited to attend the social hours. The ASA hosts these social hours to provide a relaxing setting for meeting attendees to meet and mingle with their friends and colleagues as well as an opportunity for new members and first-time attendees to meet and introduce themselves to others in the field. A second goal of the socials is to provide a sufficient meal so that meeting attendees can attend the Technical Committees meetings that begin immediately after the socials at 7:30 p.m. Please see the schedule of Technical Committee meetings.

The Society Luncheon and Lecture will be held on Thursday, 3 November, at 12:00 noon in the San Diego Room. The luncheon is open to all attendees and their guests. The cost is $30.00 per ticket. Purchase tickets online or by using the dowloadable registration form.

Students, meet with a member of the ASA for lunch! The ASA Education Committee arranges for a student to meet one-on-one with a member of the Acoustical Society over lunch. The purpose is to make it easier for students to meet and interact with members at ASA Meetings. Each lunch pairing is arranged separately. Students who are interested should contact Dr. David Blackstock, University of Texas at Austin, by email, dtb@mail.utexas.edu. Please provide your name, university,department, degree you are seeking (BS, MS, or PhD), research field, acoustical interests, your supervisor's name, days you are free for lunch, and abstract number (or title) of any paper you are presenting.

The sign-up deadline is twelve days before the start of the Meeting, but an earlier sign-up is strongly encouraged.

Each participant pays for his/her own meal.

STUDENT EVENTS: NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION, ICEBREAKER, STUDENT FORUM, STUDENT RECEPTION, AND FELLOWSHIP/GRANT PROPOSAL WORKSHOP

WOMEN IN ACOUSTICS LUNCHEON

Jam Session

Child Care

ACCOMPANYING PERSONS PROGRAM

WEATHER

TECHNICAL PROGRAM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

MEETING ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

PHOTOGRAPHING AND RECORDING

NOTE TO SMOKERS

ABSTRACT ERRATA

GUIDELINES FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS

SUGGESTIONS FOR EFFECTIVE POSTER PRESENTATIONS

GUIDELINES FOR USE OF COMPUTER PROJECTION

DATES OF FUTURE ASA MEETINGS