five special sessions on all aspects of noise control are beingplanned. It is expected that three sessions on military noiseproblems will be held - in cooperation with the U.S. Departmentof Defense and the NATO Committee on the Challenges ofModem Society (CCMS).A major exhibition of equipment and materialsis being planned.Travel planning information, a hotel reservation form, a conferenceregistration form, and a list of paper titles accepted for presentationwill be published in the <strong>1996</strong> June issue of this magazine.The following two items have been reprinted from the 1995December issue ofthis magazine because oftheir importancein planning for NOISE-CON 96. - Ed.INCEIUSA<strong>Noise</strong> Control Demonstration to be Held in Conjunctionwith NOISE·CON 96. The Institute of <strong>Noise</strong> ControlEngineering of the USA has announced that a special session on<strong>Noise</strong> Control Demonstration Devices will be held in conjunctionwith its <strong>1996</strong> National Conference on <strong>Noise</strong> Control Engineering,NOISE-CON 96 -to be held in Bellevue, Washingtonon <strong>1996</strong> September 29 - October 02. Participation by representativesfrom industry, government, and academia is welcome.Participants are encouraged to consider both active andpassive means to illustrate the roles of such factors as insulation,absorption, radiation, vibration isolation, damping, fan-ductgeometry, machine tool geometry, etc. in noise control. A specialobjective of this session is to identify relatively simple andinexpensive devices that are capable of demonstrating one ormore of the basic principles of noise control.Brief presentations will be made concerning the principlesto be demonstrated and their significance - along with descriptionsof the demonstration equipment and its operation.Entries from academia will be judged, and monetary prizeswill be awarded based on their demonstrated effectiveness aswell as their general suitability for classroom use. Writtendescriptions and information sufficient for reproduction by othersmust accompany competition entries. Competition rules andadditional information about NOISE-CON 96 are availablefrom the Institute of <strong>Noise</strong> Control Engineering, P.O. Box 3206Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603.INCEIUSA to Sponsor Student Paper Prize Competition.INCEIUSA has announced that the eighth annual Student PaperPrize Competition will be held in conjunction with NOISECON 96. The student awards will be presented at the conference.The competition is open to students who are registered atU.S. colleges and universities.The <strong>1996</strong> Competition will be the eighth sponsored by INCE.The first presentations were made at INTER-NOISE 89, alsoheld in Newport Beach, California in December, 1989. Up tofive awards will be given to students who submit six-pagemanuscripts directly related to noise control engineering. Winningentries will be selected by a judging committee appointedby 1995 INCE President Louis C. Sutherland, and each willreceive a cash award of USD 1000 as well as a complimentaryregistration at the conference. If an expanded version of thepaper is later published in the Institute's peer-reviewed technicalpublication, <strong>Noise</strong> Control Engineering Journal, the studentwill receive an additional USD 500 award.Competition rules and additional information about NOISECON 96 are available from the Institute of <strong>Noise</strong> ControlEngineering, P.O. Box 3206 Arlington Branch, Poughkeepsie,NY 12603. The deadline for receipt of manuscripts for thestudent competition is <strong>1996</strong> June 14.<strong>International</strong> INCEFirst Announcement - INTER·NOISE 97. INTER-NOISE97, The 1997 <strong>International</strong> Congress on <strong>Noise</strong> Control Engineering,will be held at the Technical University of Budapest,in the capital of Hungary, from 1997 August 25 to 27. TheCongress is sponsored by the <strong>International</strong> Institute of <strong>Noise</strong>Control Engineering, and is being organized by the AcousticalCommission of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and theHungarian Scientific Society for Optics, Acoustics, MotionPictures, and Theater Technology.INTER-NOISE 97 will be the twenty-sixth in a series of internationalconferences on noise control engineering that have beenheld all over the world since 1972. The theme of INTER-NOISE97 is Help Quiet the Worldfor a Higher Quality Life.The Announcement and Call for Papers will appear in the<strong>1996</strong> June issue of this magazine.A major acoustical equipment, materials, and instrumentexhibition will be held in conjunction with INTER-NOISE 97.The exhibition will include materials and devices for noisecontrol as well as instruments such as sound level meters,acoustical signal processing systems, and equipment for activenoise control.Programs for accompanying persons and social activities forall delegates will be organized.For more information on NOISE-CON 97, please contact theCongress Secretariat, OPAKFI, Fo u. 68, H-1027 Budapest,Hungary. The FAX number is +3612020452.ACTIVE 97 to be Held in Conjunction with INTER·NOISE97. After receipt of an invitation from Hungary, and discussionswithin the Board of Directors ofINCEIUSA, it has been decidedto hold ACTIVE 97, the 1997 <strong>International</strong> Symposium onActive Control of Sound and Vibration in Hungary on 1997August 21-23, just prior to INTER-NOISE 97. Technical paperscovering all aspects of active control of sound and vibration willbe covered, and the format will be similar to that used forACTIVE 95 which was held in Newport Beach, California in1995 July, just prior to INTER-NOISE 95.The institutions organizing of ACTIVE 97 will be the sameas those for INTER-NOISE 97. However, Fulop Augusztinoviczof the Catholic University ofLeuven, Leuven, Belgiumwill be the General Chairman, and Joachim Scheuren of MullerBBM in Munich, Germany will be the Co-Chairman. An Announcementand Call for Papers will appear in the <strong>1996</strong> Juneissue of this magazine. Further information on ACTIVE 97 maybe obtained from the Secretariat at the address given under theannouncement directly above.54 <strong>Noise</strong>/<strong>News</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>1996</strong> <strong>March</strong>
World Conference CalendarThis calendar includes major conferenceswhich feature programs on noise and itscontrol. The working language of eachconference will be English, unless otherwisenoted . This calendar does not includ eseminars, short courses, workshops andother small, specialized meeting s whichare listed elsewhere. The shaded entrie s inthe calendar are conferences which areorgani zed or spon sored by I-INCE orINCE/USA . Entries for this calendar aresolicited from the I-INCE Member Societiesand from other organizations. In orderfor a listing to appear in this calendar,information must be provided by the conferenceorganizers concerning the sessionsplanned for the technical program that willbe devoted to noise and its control. This isparticularly important if the word noisedoes not appear in the name or theme ofthe conference. Send reque sts for listing sof future meetings with required details to:World Conference Calendar, INCElUSA,P.O . Box 320 6 Arlington Br an ch,Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, USA. FAX +19144739325.<strong>1996</strong> April 01-04Forum Acusticum, European AcousticsAssociation, Antwerp, Belgium.*Contact: C. Mortelmans, Desguinlei 214,Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-2018 Antwerpen,Belgium. Telephone: +32 3 2160996; FAX: +3232160689.<strong>1996</strong> May 06-0817th AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference,State College, Pennsylvania, USA. *Contact: L.N. Long, Dept. of AerospaceEngineering, 233M Hammond Bldg.,Pennsylvania State University, UniversityPark, PA 16802, USA. Telephone: +1814865 1172; FAX: +1 8148657092;e-mail: Inl@cac.psu.edu<strong>1996</strong> May 13-17131st Meeting of the Acoustical Societyof America, Indianapolis, Indiana,USA.* Contact: Elaine Moran, AcousticalSociety of America, 500 SunnysideBlvd., Woodbury, NY 11797, USA. Tele-phone: +1 5165762360; FAX: +1 5165762377.<strong>1996</strong> May 18-24American Industrial Hygiene Conferenceand Exposition, Washington, D.C.,USA.* Contact: C. Tobin, AIHA, 2700Prosperity Avenue, Suite 250, Fairfax, VA22031, USA. Telephone: +1 703 8498888; FAX: +1 703 207 3561; e-mail:ctobin @aiha.org<strong>1996</strong> May 23-25Acoustical Measurements - Methodsand Instruments, Moscow, Russia.* Contact: Russian AcousticalSociety, N.N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute,4, Shvernik st., Moscow117036, Russia. Telephone: +7 095 1267401; FAX: +7 095 1268411; e-mail:bvp@asu.acoins.msk.su<strong>1996</strong> May 28-31<strong>Noise</strong> & Planning '96: <strong>International</strong>Conference on Acoustics Applied toPlanning, Pisa, Italy. Contact: G. Lombardi,via Bragadino 2, 20144 Milano,Italy. Telephone: +392480 18833; FAX:+392480 18839.<strong>1996</strong> June 12-14Nordic Acoustical Meeting, NAM 96,Helsinki, Finland.* Contact: NAM, HelsinkiUniversity of Technology, AcousticsLaboratory, Otakaari 5A, 02150Espoo, Finland. FAX: +358 460224; email: nam96@hut.fi.<strong>1996</strong> June 12-1424th Annual Meeting, Italian AcousticalAssociation, Trento, Italy.* Contact:A. Giacomazzi, Provincia Autonoma diTrento, via Mantova 16, 38100 Trento,Italy. FAX: +39461 236574.<strong>1996</strong> June 24-274th <strong>International</strong> Congress on Soundand Vibration, St. Petersburg, Russia.Contact: M.J. Crocker, Dept. of MechanicalEngineering, 202 Ross Hall, AuburnUniversity, AL 36849-5341. Telephone:+1 3348443310; FAX: +1 3348443306;e-mail: mcrocker@eng.auburn.edu<strong>1996</strong> July 31-August 2INTER-NOISE 96, the <strong>1996</strong> <strong>International</strong>Congress on <strong>Noise</strong> ControlEngineering, Liverpool , Eng land.Contact: C.M. Mackenzie, Institute ofAcoustics, P.O. Box 320, St. Albans,Hens, AL I IPZ, UK. Telephone: + I44 1727 848195; FAX: +1 44 1727850553.<strong>1996</strong> September 23-253rd Transport <strong>Noise</strong> Symposium, St.Petersburg, Russia. Contact: East-EuropeanAcoustical Association, MoskovskoeShosse 44, 196158 St. Petersburg,Russia. Telephone: +7 812 127 9348;FAX: +7 812 1279323.<strong>1996</strong> September 25-28Building and Room Acoustics - 33rdConference on Acoustics, Prague,Czech Republic. * Contact: ABF, Secretariat33rd CA, Vaclavske nam. 31, 11121Praha 1, Czech Republic. Telephone: +422 231 9054; FAX: +42 2 231 8614; email: 33ca@feld.cvut.cz<strong>1996</strong> September 29-0ctober 2NOISE-CON 96, the <strong>1996</strong> NationalConference on <strong>Noise</strong> Control Engineering,Bellevue, Washington, USA.Contact: Engineering Professional Programs,3201 Freemont Avenue North,SeattleWA98103, USA. Telephone: +1206543 5539; Fax: + I 206 543-2352.<strong>1996</strong> November 17·22Symposium on Thrbomachinery<strong>Noise</strong>,ASME <strong>International</strong> Congress(IMECE), Atlanta, Georgia. Contact: N.Humbad, Ford Motor Company,CCO/ITC Room G301, 15031 S. CommerceDrive, Dearborn, MI 48120, USA.Telephone: +I 313 3213 8243; FAX: +1313 594 1738; e-mail: nhumbad@for.com<strong>1996</strong><strong>March</strong><strong>Noise</strong>l<strong>News</strong> <strong>International</strong>55