Newswise – DENVER, May 13, 2022 – Press conferences for the 182nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America will be held Tuesday, May 24 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel at Plaza Court 2. Media availability will focus on a wide range of sessions of interest at the next meeting, from the impact of racialized identities on speech perception to the first sounds recorded by the Perseverance rover on Mars.

To register for in-person attendance, email [email protected]. To watch the livestream virtually, please visit our registration page. Video recordings of the press conference sessions will be available by May 25 upon request.

ASA Press Conference Schedule – Tuesday, May 24 (topics/times subject to change)

11:30 a.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. MT

• Acoustic sensors identify shooters in urban settings – Luisa Still, Fraunhofer FKIE Session 1aPAa6 – Prediction of the accuracy of the shooter’s location in an urban environment, Monday, May 23 at 10:45 a.m. MT
• Ultrasound-assisted laser technique vaporizes arterial plaque – Rohit Singh, University of Kansas Session 2pBAa7 – A new ultrasound-assisted laser technique to remove atherosclerotic plaques, Tuesday, May 24 at 3:05 p.m. MT
• Snap, Crackle, Pop: Healthy Coral Reefs Bursting With Noise –Lauren A. Freeman, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Session 3aAO4 – Characteristics of the soundscape of coral reefs and temperate coastlines are evident in passive directional and omnidirectional acoustic time series, Wednesday, May 25 at 9:35 a.m. MT

1 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. MT

• Making Racetrack Noise Bearable Through Physics – Bonnie Schnitta, SoundSense, LLC Session 1aAA1 – Actions and mathematical modeling that will bring the noise levels of a racetrack or track to a level that the community will accept, Monday, May 23 at 9:05 a.m. MT
• Explosions help probe elusive atmospheric waves – Stephen Arrowsmith, Southern Methodist University Session 3aPA4 – Using infrasound from repeated explosion sequences in Oklahoma to probe the atmosphere, Wednesday, May 25 at 8:55 a.m. MT
• On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover playlist is unlike any other – Baptiste Chide, Los Alamos National Laboratory 3pPA4 session – Soundscape of Mars: Back to the first sounds recorded by the microphones of Perseverance, Wednesday, May 25 at 1:45 p.m. MT
• Offshore wind farms could disrupt the behavior of marine mammals – Frank Thomsen, DHI Group Session 4pAB5 – Operational underwater noise from future offshore wind turbines may affect the behavior of marine mammals., Thursday, May 26 at 2:25 p.m. MT

3 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. MT

• Sidekick microbubbles transport cancer drugs and damage tumor vessels – Naomi Matsuura, University of Toronto Session 2aBAb2 – Ultrasound-stimulated drug-laden bubbles for cancer treatmentTuesday, May 24 at 9:30 a.m. MT
• Various social networks reduce accent judgments – Ethan Kutlu, University of Iowa Session 2aSC4 – Perception in context: How racialized identities impact the perception of speech, Tuesday, May 24 at 10:15 a.m. MT
• Listening can be exhausting for older cochlear implant users –Kristina DeRoy Milvae, University of Maryland Session 2aPP5 – Effects of aging on listening effort in cochlear implant users., Tuesday, May 24 at 10:50 a.m. MT
• Turning hearing aids into noise canceling devices – Ryan M. Corey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Session 3aPPb8 – Turn down the music! Reorient assistive listening systems to remove distracting sounds, Wednesday, May 25 at 11:45 a.m. MT

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USEFUL LINKS

Main meeting site: https://acousticalsociety.org/asa-meetings/
Technical program: https://eventpilotadmin.com/web/planner.php?id=ASASPRING22
Press room: https://acoustics.org/world-wide-press-room/
Follow the highlights of the conference with the social media hashtag #ASA182

GLOBAL NEWSROOM

In the coming weeks, the ASA Global Newsroom will be updated with additional tips on dozens of newsworthy stories and with articles in lay language, which are 300-500 word summaries. presentations written by scientists for a general audience and accompanied by photos, audio and video. . You can visit the site during the meeting at http://acoustics.org/world-wide-press-room/.

PRESS REGISTRATION

We will grant free registration to accredited journalists and professional freelance journalists. If you are a journalist and would like to attend, contact AIP Media Services at [email protected]. For urgent requests, the staff of [email protected] can also help organize interviews and obtain images, sound clips or background information.

ABOUT THE ACOUSTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) is the premier international acoustics scientific society devoted to the science and technology of sound. Its 7,000 members worldwide represent a broad spectrum of the study of acoustics. ASA publications include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (the world’s leading journal on acoustics), JASA Express Letters, Proceedings of Acoustics Meetings, Acoustics Today magazine, books and standards.

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