November 21, 2000---Speakers will present some of the newest and most interesting discoveries in the science of sound at a press luncheon to take place at the Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and NOISE-CON 2000 which occurs from December 3-8 in Newport Beach, CA.

The luncheon will take place on Tuesday, December 5 at 11:30 AM in the Balboa Room of the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach, CA. The list of speakers and their topics can be found below. Reporters wishing to attend should fill out the reply form at the end of this release or contact Ben Stein (301-209-3091, [email protected]).

In addition, the ASA World Wide Press Room (http://www.acoustics.org) contains detailed information on numerous results to be presented at the meeting. There you can find the meeting press release, lay language versions of a dozen meeting papers, and a searchable database of all abstracts for the meeting. Some examples of lay language papers are listed in the text that follows.
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PRESS LUNCHEON TOPICS
Joint Meeting of the ASA and NOISE-CON 2000
Balboa Room, Newport Beach Marriott, Newport Beach, CA
Tuesday, December 5, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

1. AUDITORY IMPLANTS FOR THE BRAINSTEM, MIDDLE EAR, AND INNER EAR
Sig Soli, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles
(213-353-7085, [email protected])

2. LOW-PITCHED "INFRASOUND" COMMUNICATION IN TIGERS AND OTHER ANIMALS
Elizabeth von Muggenthaler, Fauna Communications, North Carolina
(865-974-1810, [email protected])
***Lay language papers on this topic at http://www.acoustics.org/140th/muggenthaler2.htm and http://www.acoustics.org/140th/muggenthaler.htm

3. SMELLING VAPORS WITH SOUND
Edward Staples
Electronic Sensor Technology, Newbury Park , CA
(805-480-1994, [email protected])
More information at http://www.estcal.com and http://www.estcal.com/Press.html

4. THEME PARK ACOUSTICS
Marshall Long, Acoustical Consultant
(818-981-8005, [email protected])

5. THE ACOUSTICS OF LIPOSUCTION
Carlos Camara, UCLA (310-825-1842, [email protected]), and Keith Weninger, Stanford
(650-725-8702, [email protected])
***Lay language paper on this talk at http://www.acoustics.org/140th/camera.htm
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FULL LAY LANGUAGE PAPER LIST:
http://www.acoustics.org/140th/lay_lang.html

SOME EXAMPLE PAPERS

Nanoscale Ears Based on Artificial Hair Cells
Flavio Noca, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, et al.
http://www.acoustics.org/140th/noca.htm

Targeted Drug Release Initiated by X-Rays or Ultrasound
Robert Apfel, Yale University
http://www.acoustics.org/140th/apfel.htm

George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mechanique: Realizing a 20th-Century Work That Was Technically Ahead of Its Time
Paul Lehrman and Howard Woolf, Tufts University
http://www.acoustics.org/140th/lehrman.htm

Some Acoustics of the Shakuhachi (Japanese Flute)
Joe Wolfe and John Smith
University of New South Wales, Australia
http://www.acoustics.org/140th/wolfe.htm
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REPLY FORM
ASA/NOISE-CON 2000 Meeting, Newport Beach, CA
December 3-December 8, 2000

Please return this form to Ben Stein at [email protected] or fax to 301-209-0846

__Please sign me up for the ASA Press Luncheon on Tuesday, December 5 in Newport Beach.
__Please send me the book of abstracts for the meeting.

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