honors from other scientific organizations. On the international scene pro- gress is being made also, with some Committee members being involved in the programming of international acoustical events overseas as well as on the North American continent.

Based on its activitifis during the past year the Committee is confident- ly looking forward to contributing to the growth and health of the Society.

WALTER G. MAYER

Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

At the open meeting of the P & P Technical Committee on 9 Novem- ber 1982 at Orlando, 58 members and guests signed the attendance register. On behalf of the Committee the chair thanked Donald Teas and Dennis

McFadden for arranging the P & P program. The chair also expressed thanks to Shyam M. Khanna for organizing the special session on Modern Techniques of Vibration Measurement which was co-sponsored by the Noise and Physical Acoustics Technical Committees. The Acoustical So- ciety is indebted to the speakers at this special session, O. $. L•kberg of Norway, R. DJindliker of Switzerland, and G. von Bally of West Germany, who generously agreed to come to Orlando to present invited papers on recently developed optical feethods for vibration measurement, including holography, heterodyne interferometry, and electronic speckle-pattern in- terferometry. ß

At the request of the Technical Council, those present discussed and unanimously approved a recommendation that additional information on the preparation of slides and transparencies be sent to all authors of papers accepted for presentation at ASA meetings.

Final approval was given to special P & P sessions planned for the Cincinnati meeting, including a full-day meeting on Directional }tearing which is being organized by William Yost, George Gourevitch, and Ri- chard Fay and which will be co-sponsored by Architectural Acoustics; a half-day session on Touch as a Communicative Sense which is being orga- nized by Carl Sherrick was also approved for Cincinnati.

In response to an invitation from the chair for suggestions as to special sessions for the San Diego meeting, Robert Gales reported that at a meeting earlier that day of the ASA Coordinating Committee on Environmental Acoustics (CCEA)it was proposed that a special session be held on the effects of man-made noise on wildlife and that this session be sponsored jointly by CCEA and the P & P and Noise Technical Committees. This proposal will be brought to the membership for approval at the Cincinnati meeting.

Fifty-nine individuals signed the attendance roster at the open meeting ofthe Committee in Cincinnati on 10 May 1983. The chair thanked Edward Burns, Charles Nixon, and Ernest Weiler for arranging the P & P papers for this meeting and also expressed gratitude to the organizers of the special sessions: William Yost, George Gourevitch, and Richard Fay for the all- day symposium on Directional Hearing and Carl Sherrick for the half-day meeting on Touch as a Communicative Sense.

After serving for two years as the P & P representative on the ASA Committee on Standards, Larry Humes has resigned. The chair expressed gratitude to Larry and announced that he will be replaced by Craig Wier.

Fred Wightman has been appointed vice-chairman of the P & P Tech- nical Committee for 1983-84, the term of chairmen of Technical Commit- tees having been extended to three years by recent action of the Technical Council.

There was generally favorable response to a suggestion from the Long Range Planning Committee to increase the involvement of student members in ASA affairs The idea of holding meetings on college campuses was also well received.

Following an observation by $ozef Zwislocki that having three half days of special sessions seriously interfered with the scheduling of regular contributed papers, the group unanimously approved a motion by David Green that at future meetings the number of special sessions for which P & P can act as primary sponsor be limited to two half-days; no limit was set on the number of special sessions for which P & P can be secondary sponsor.

Two P & P special sessions were approved for the San Diego meeting (November, 1983), one on the Acoustics of Echolocating Animals, to be organized by Whirlow Au, and the other on the Effects of Manmade Noise on Animals, to be organized by William Cummings and jointly sponsored by the Noise Technical Committee and CCEA.

David Harris proposed a full-day special session for the Minneapolis

meeting (October 1984), a tutorial symposium on the Anatomy and Physio- logy of the Central Auditory System. The first half of the meeting would consist of analysis and review of the state-of-the-art on this topic, followed by speakers from nonauditory areas of neuroscience who would attempt a synthesis of general principles relevant to study of sensory systems. Fund- ing will be sought from the NIH and it is planned to publish the papers, either in J,4S,4 or as a book. The proposal was unanimously approved.

The group also approved joint sponsorship with the Noise Technical Committee of a special session for Minneapolis on Hearing Protection to be organized by Elliott Berger. On the basis of limited interest on the part of those in attendance as judged by a show of hands, it appeared to be the consensus that Noise should be the primary sponsor.

J. E. HIND

Musical Acoustics

At the Acoustical Society meeting in Orlando, November 1982, and in Cincinnati, May 1983, the Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics held six sessions. Three of these were on special topics, "Music Perception and Cognition," "On the Singing Voice," and "Measurement of Sound Fields from Complex Sources," a joint session with Physical Acoustics. In all, 45 papers were presented, 16 of them invited.

The papers provide a survey of present interests and methods in this field. There were two theoretical physics papers on musical instruments and 16 papers on experimental instrument analysis. Of the 16 experimental pa- pers, ten employed digital signal processing, often a highly innovative form of digital signal processing, such as interferometric techniques. Two papers described the design and construction of acoustical instruments and five discussed hardware and software for digital synthesis of musical sounds. There were three papers along music perceptual lines and 11 papers on music cognition/music theory. Eight papers were presented on the singing voice. The survey indicates a healthy balance within the Technical Commit- tee among interests and methods.

The coming meeting in San Diego, November 1983, promises to be a large and interesting meeting for the Technical Committee. Sessions are planned on "Music Perception and Cognition," "Computer-Based Analy- sis and Synthesis of Music," "Acoustics and Audio," a memorial session for Harold Olson (jointly with Engineering Acoustics), and "Acoustics for Spaces for Worship," led by Architectural Acoustics. There will be a ses- sion, "The Scaled String Octet," and a concert including all eight of the instruments. There will also be a chance to hear about and to visit the

collection of Harry Partch instruments at San Diego State University.

WILLIAM M. HARTMANN

Chairpersons of the various technical committees are asked to report on the activities on their respective committees at the conclusion of the Society's administrative year which occurs at the spring meeting. These reports are published as received.

Report of the Committee on Regional Chapters The meeting was held on 11 May at the 105th ASA Meeting in Cincin-

nati, Ohio. Present: Ilene Busch-Vishniac (Austin)

Angelo Campanella (Central Ohio) Edith Corliss (Washington, DC) Larry Crum (C. Education in Acoustics) Stan Ehrlich (Narragansett) John Erdreich (Cincinnati) Fred Fisher (San Diego) Gerald Franz (Visitor and Chairman Emeri-

tus) Bob Gales (C.C. Environmental Acoustics

and San Diego) Logan Hargrove (C. Education in Acoustics) Daniel Queen (Chicago) Larry Royster (North Carolina) Dixon Ward (Upper Midwest) Richard Waterhouse (Visitor and Assoc. Editor

Acoustical NewsyUSA) (1) Following the introduction of all attendees, Larry Crum opened the

discussion with a request from the C. Education in Acoustics for participa- tion by the C. Regional Chapters in improving secondary school education in the sciences. Logan Hatgrove, who has been appointed by David Black-

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stock to coordinate the ASA role in these activities, presented additional details. The AAAS and Natl. Acad. Sci. recognition of the problems and the potential for incremental improvements by competent concerned individu- als were stressed. Considerable discussion by those present, often straying from the request for help, occupied most of the meeting time. Essentially some were already doing something, some already felt fully committed to other problems, and most were willing to give further consideration to the matter. Logan will follow up with us next at San Diego.

(2) Bob Gales reported for CCEA that there are 32 regional coordina- tors and that environmental acoustics was still an active subject m particu- larly the effects of noise on people and on wildlife. The problems of offshore drilling in Alaska on wildlife and getting the state and local governments to become more, rather than less, active in noise control (following Federal pullout) were noted.

(3) Stan Ehrlich, having introduced Dick Waterhouse earlier, noted that he is the new Associate Editor for Acoustical News USA, replacing Bill Cramer who had served 11 years and been our good friend and contact with the Journal. For Chapter news, Dick's address is Code 1940, David Taylor Naval Ship R & D Center, Bethesda, MD 20084. Stan commended the Cin- cinnati Chapter for its excellent meeting of 9 Maymwell announced in the meeting program, a well chosen speaker/topic, and the local attraction of the brewery (about 100 attended). Stan suggested that more Chapters need to use some of the meeting allowance voted by the Executive Council, espe- cially the smaller Chapters, where the allowance should permit broadening their program scope with opportunities for outside speakers.

(4) Angelo Campanella requested that lists of the better speakers be supplied by each chapter to all others. As Committee Chairman, Stan Ehr- lich agreed to coordinate the effort. By copy of these minutes each Chapter Representative is requested to supply, or have one of his/her Chapter offi- cers supply, a list of one or more names of speakers he/she would recom- mend to others. The first composite list installment will be mailed with the next meeting notice.

(5) Oral reports from the Chapter representatives present were omitted at Cincinnati to allow adjournment by 1:00 p.m. A report of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter, written by Geoff Wilson, is given in this issue of the Journal

STANLEY L. EHRLICH

Regional Chapter news Central Pennsylvania Chapter. The Chapter has 63 members, nearly

all associated with Penn State. Thus its activities tend to be primarily sup- portive to university activities. We have provided some support to a Christ- mas party for acoustics students and faculty, and for a special acoustics seminar at which Dr. David Blackstock, President of the Society, was the speaker. Our main activity has been to arrange an awards luncheon. At this the opportunity was taken to honor a departing faculty member, Dr. Gor- don Bienvenue.

The Kenneth T. Simowitz award was founded by the parents of a d• graduate student to encourage student publications. This year awards were made to Milo Dahl for his paper, "The Performance of Jet Noise Suppression Device for Industrial Applications," and to Mark Ham- ilton for his paper, "An Experimental Study of Traveling Bubble Cavitation Noise." It was noted that Mark is the recipient of the F. V. Hunt Postdoc- toral Research Fellowship and, following formal receipt of his Ph.D. from Penn State this summer, will be going to continue his research in nonlinear acoustics at the Matematisk Institutt of the Univ.crsity of Bergen, Norway.

Narragansett Chapter. The annual joint meeting with the Greater Bos- ton Chapter was held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Saturday 4 June 1983. An introductory overview of the research and educa- tion program was •resented by Ms. Shelley Lauzon, WHOI Public Rela- tions Officer. Dr. Robert Spindel conducted a tour of the facilities which included the repair shop where the ALVIN was being overhauled, and visits aboard the Research Vessels Atlantis and Knorr. The program concluded with a technical presentation by Dr. George Frisk who discussed his experi- mental work on acoustic refraction in bottom sediments.

Calendar

Listed below is a summary of meetings related to acoustics to be held in the U.S. in the near futrue. Month/year notation refers to the issue in which a complete meeting announcement appeared.

8-7 October 1983 Penn State Short Course on Underwater Acoustics

and Signal Processing. 6/83

4-7 October 1983 Catholic University Short Course "Principles and Design of Sonar Transducers." 7/83

26-28 October 1983 13th International Symposium on Acoustical Imag- ing. $/83

31 Oct.-4 Nov. 1983 John C. Snowdon Vibration Control Seminar. 6/83

7-11 November 1983 Acoustical Society of America Fall Meeting, San Diego.

23-27 January 1984 Ocean Sciences Meeting. 8/83 23-27 July 1984 4th Conference of the International Decade of Re-

search in Singing. 9/83 22-25 October 1984 Symposium on Advances and Trends in Structures

and Dynamics. 4/83

Special notice: ASA meeting papers Instructions for the preparation of abstracts for papers to be presented

at meetings of the Acoustical Society of America are mailed to all members with meeting announcements. For the benefit of nonmembers who submit abstracts and for members who wish to have a permanent reference, instruc- tions and a sample abstract are published below. Adherence to these instructions will be very helpful to meeting chairmen and insure that pro- grams will be mailed well in advance of meetings.

BETTY H. GOODFRIEND

Secretary

Preparation of abstracts ( 1 ) An abstract in four copies is required for every meeting paper, one of

which is preferably an original. Send the four copies to the technic_al pro- gram chairman of the meeting, in time to be received by the stated deadline; in the USA allow at least seven days for delivery. {Deadline dates are given in the news section of every issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.) A cover letter is not necessary.

{2) Limit abstract to 200 words. This includes title and first author's name and address {names and addresses of coauthors need not be counted). Display formulas--those set apart from the text--are counted as 40 words.

{3) Title of abstract and names and addresses of authors should be set apart from the abstract. Text of abstract should be in one single, indented paragraph. Type double spaced on one sheet of 8« X 11-in. bond paper.

{4) Be sure the mailing address in the abstract is complete for the author to whom the acceptance or rejection notice is to be sent.

(5) Do not use footnotes. Use square brackets for citing references or for support acknowledgment. Give references is format required for JASA.

{6) Underline nothing except what you wish to see italicized. {7) If the letter I is used as a symbol in a formula, loop the letter I by

hand and write "lc ell" in the margin of the abstract. The letter O should not be interspersed with numbers, where zero might be understood; but if un- avoidable, in the margin write "capital oh." Phonetic symbols should be similarly noted.

(8) Read "On presenting a technical paper," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61, 1086-1087 (1977).

(9) At the bottom of an abstract give:

(a) Technical Committee(s) most appropriate for the subject matter. If the paper is primarily psychological or physiological, state which. (b) Subject classification number(s) under which the abstract might be indexed (see subject classification in a recent June or December issue of JASA). {c) Telephone number of accessible author. {d) If more than one author, name the one to receive acceptance or rejection notice. {e) Describe on the abstract itself any special equipment needed; a Vu- Oraph for transparencies and a projector for 50 X 50-mm slides will be available for all papers.

{ 10) Questions concerning the printing of an abstract may be directed to the Editorial Supervisor of JASA, who can be reached at (516)349-7800 Ext. 654.

(11) IMPORTANT: Give a copy of these instructions to your secre- tary.

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