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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 at ASHRAE Seattle (June 2014)

NAG members enjoyed participating in the recent ASHRAE Annual meeting in Seattle. Jenn Francis presented a Conference Paper on “SE-14-C043: Determining Annoyance Thresholds of Tones in Noise” and Joonhee Lee presented a Seminar talk on “The Presence of Tones in … Continue reading

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NAG at ASA Conference in Providence (May 2014)

NAG members had an excellent time at the recent ASA conference in Providence, Rhode Island (May 2014).  In addition to presenting four technical papers, some of our memorable moments included: Hyun Hong receiving an NCAC Student Travel Grant, NAG Game … Continue reading

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2014 NAG End-of-the-Year Party

The 2014 NAG End-of-the-Year Party was held on Tuesday, April 29 at Maplewood Lanes.  Members bowled two rounds of games and dined on surprisingly good bowling alley food.  Two NAG members received prizes for bowling the (1) highest score and (2) … 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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Andrew Hathaway, M.S.

Congratulations to Andrew Hathaway, who successfully defended his M.S. Thesis “Effects of Time Varying Background Noise Conditions on Human Perception and Performance” today (July 31, 2013), advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  NAG members went to Pitch for lunch followed by ice … Continue reading

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Caleb Sieck, M.S.

Congratulations to Caleb Sieck, who successfully defended his M.S. Thesis “Investigation of Sound Transmission through an Open Window into a Room” on July 26, 2013, advised by Dr. Siu-Kit Lau!  Caleb is continuing his education in acoustics as a PhD student … Continue reading

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ASHRAE in Denver (June 2013)

The Annual ASHRAE Conference was held in Denver, Colorado, from June 22-26, 2013.  Dr. Lily Wang and Joonhee Lee both attended, participating primarily in the activities of Technical Committee 2.6 on Sound and Vibration Control.  Lily also had a chance … Continue reading

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ISRA in Toronto (June 2013)

The International Symposium on Room Acoustics (ISRA) was held in Toronto, after ICA.  This conference is always a valuable one, for anyone working in room acoustics.  Many of the world’s top room acousticians (both researchers and designers) gathered together to … Continue reading

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ICA/ASA in Montreal (June 2013)

Nebraska Acoustics Group members had a wonderful time at the International Congress on Acoustics in Montreal, June 2013 (joint with the Acoustical Society of America meeting).  Check out our Picasa webpage for several photos from the event.  Highlights included: celebrating … Continue reading

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