Greetings!
After
2 years showing almost a 40% year-on-year growth in
attendee numbers, we are excited about the 2009 Winter
Symposium and are starting our planning even earlier
than usual to ensure that everyone knows about it far
enough ahead of time to plan accordingly!
We plan to make the 2009 event bigger and better
than ever before. We have taken on board all your
feedback from last year, and this has resulted in
us running an additional training class on Jan 5,
the day before the main two day event on Jan
6-7, to ease the situation of having several
concurrent events on the first day. We hope that this
will allow more people to attend the training, and
increase traffic in the exhibit hall. We have already
assembled an exciting line-up of events and hope that
you are able to join us.
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Exhibit Booth Sign Up
 For the first time in
recent years we sold out of exhibit hall space last
year, and had to turn exhibitors away. To ensure that
this does not happen again, we have doubled our space
this year so that we can accommodate up to 40
booths. Many of our 24 2008 exhibitors are already
signed up for a booth at this year's symposium, so we
are well on the way to filling the space. We offer early
bird discounts to those that book prior to the end of
August, so don't miss out - sign up today!
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Psychoacoustics Training Class -
Dr. Floyd Toole
Renowned audio researcher Dr. Floyd Toole will be
presenting a full-day training class, "The
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms,
at the ALMA Winter Symposium on Mon Jan 5th. This
course will be heavily based on his book entitled "Sound
Reproduction: loudspeakers and rooms" due for
publication later this year. All class participants will
receive a copy of the book.
Dr. Toole's research has focused on the acoustics
and psychoacoustics of sound reproduction in small
rooms, directed to improving engineering measurements,
objectives for loudspeaker design and evaluation, and
techniques for reducing variability at the loudspeaker /
room / listener interface.
Dr. Toole has impressive business and academic
credentials, having held the postion of Corporate
Vice President - Acoustical Engineering at Harman
International from 1991 until he retired in 2007 and
Senior Research Officer in the Acoustics and Signal
Processing Group at the National Research Council
of Canada. He studied electrical engineering at the
University of New Brunswick, and at the Imperial College
of Science and Technology, University of London, where
he received a Ph.D. More information about this course
will follow in a future Winter Symposium
bulletin.
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Call for
Papers
 We invite you to
submit paper abstracts for presentation at our 2009
Winter Symposium. The deadline for submission is
Aug 31, 2008, and presenters will be notified by Sept
15, 2008. The theme for this year's symposium is "Sound
Quality in Loudspeaker Design & Manufacturing"
and we are seeking paper presentations on any aspect of
of loudspeaker development including design,
manufacturing and test. Submissions should
include:
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an
abstract or summary, 75 words or
less
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contact
details and a short biography of the presenter(s)
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any
special equipment needed
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the
presenter must be able to supply copies of
presentation in electronic format by mid-December 2008
for inclusion on the symposium proceedings CD and ALMA
website. More
Information
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Review of 2008 Event
Did you miss last year's event? With record numbers of
attendees, it was one of our most successful events to
date. Read all about it
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ALMA is
happy to issue invitation letters to help you get a visa to
travel to the US. Please email ALMA if you require an
invitation letter, and let us know if you would like to attend
as a visitor or exhibitor.
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