Category Archives: NAG Meetings

NAG Meetings 2-25-15 and 3-11-15

At our NAG meeting on 2-25-15, we visited the Georgia Tech Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition website.  Also, new PhD student Jay Bliefnick presented on a variable acoustics chamber study that he conducted as an undergraduate student at Colombia College … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 1-28-15 and 2-11-15

At our first NAG meeting of the year on 1-28-15, Joonhee Lee presented our newly acquired Larson Davis 831 sound level meters to the group – what an improvement over the 824s!  We had two acoustic nuggets, one youtube video … Continue reading

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NAG Winter Party 2014

The annual Nebraska Acoustics Group Winter Party was held on Wednesday, December 17, 2014.  The party featured food from Famous Dave’s, a game of ‘Holiday Bingo’ (to determine the order of opening gifts), and our traditional ‘white elephant’ gift exchange. … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 11-12-14 and 12-3-14

At the 11-12-14 NAG meeting, Brent Kraay presented on the MAE project he is working on under Dr. Ryherd’s advisement, involving sound level measurements taken at NICU units in hospitals.  At the last NAG meeting of the semester on 12-3-14, … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 10-8-14 and 10-22-14

At our 10-8-14 NAG meeting, Brenna Boyd presented on the summer research she conducted under Ellen Peng’s mentorship, on “Analysis of Subjective Perception Results from Speech Comprehension Studies”.  Brenna will be presenting this work at the upcoming ASA meeting (her … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 9-10-14 and 9-24-14

A new school year has started, and the Nebraska Acoustics Group has been active the past few months!  At our first NAG meeting of the year on 9-10-14, we welcomed new members and shared summer experiences.  The acoustic nugget was … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 4-7-14 and 4-28-14

Ellen Peng gave an update on her speech comprehension research at our April 7th NAG meeting.  The acoustic nugget highlighted at this meeting was about how scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories are recreating the earliest sound recordings.  Then at our April … Continue reading

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NAG meetings 2-24-14 and 3-17-14

At these mid-semester NAG meetings, we discussed the interesting visits from Dr. Michelle Vigeant’s research group at Penn State, as well as those of interviewing faculty candidates.  The acoustic nuggets that were reviewed included this one on how voice voting … Continue reading

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NAG Meetings 1-27-14 and 2-10-14

This semester is flying by!  Our first two NAG meetings of the semester went well – we recounted activities and favorite presentations from the ASA San Francisco meeting and shared a number of acoustic nuggets, including new videos on sound … Continue reading

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Happy New Year 2014!

Happy New Year to all of our friends!  We’ve finished uploading many new photos to our Picasa webpage, from the ASA San Francisco conference as well as our annual NAG Winter Party.  Here are two of our favorites from the … Continue reading

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