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Welcome to our December newsletter, a range of news from across our network reflecting and informing our community.
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UK AI Hub in Acoustics: Call for Contributions and Expressions of Interest
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Submit contributions of ideas for an AI Hub in Acoustics, and Expressions of Interest in attending a scoping workshop.
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These AI Hubs should deliver world class fundamental research in AI, that is co-created with stakeholders from other disciplines, backgrounds and regions against real-world research problems. AI Hubs will be large, 5-year critical-mass investments including engagement activities and flexibility to respond to emerging priorities.
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We believe that the acoustics-related research community, brought together by UKAN, offers an exciting opportunity to build such a world-leading AI Hub.
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Call for Contributions of Ideas
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We would like to encourage contribution of ideas that highlight the underpinning research that is needed for the development of next generation AI technologies that have the capabilities to meet the demands of real-world applications. For example:
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- What applications or application areas could benefit from next generation AI technologies?
- What capabilities will next generation AI technologies need to meet demand in these areas?
- What underpinning research is needed to develop AI technologies with these capabilities?
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Expressions of Interest in Scoping Workshop
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We would also like to encourage interested individuals from the UK acoustics research community, and potential stakeholders from industry, government and third-sector organisations, to submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) to participate in an initial workshop designed to scope out and explore the priorities for an AI Hub in Acoustics.
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We would like to foster a diverse representation of people from different disciplines, backgrounds and regions to join the meeting. We would particularly like to encourage expressions of interest from people in the early stages of their career, and people from groups that are currently underrepresented in the acoustics-related research community.
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The workshop will take place online in the morning of either 19 or 21 December 2022, depending on indicated availability of a majority of applicants. The numbers invited to the workshop will be limited to ensure balance and focus of the discussion.
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Please submit your ideas and/or Expression of Interest here:
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8 December 2022 – Initial Deadline for Contributions and Expressions of Interest
13 December 2022 – Invitations to scoping workshop
19/21 December 2022 – Online scoping workshop (09:30-12:30) for AI Hub in Acoustics
9 Feb 2023 – Deadline for outline proposals to EPSRC
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Building a Career in Acoustics – Early Career SIG event postponed due to recently announced national rail strike.
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The Early Careers Special Interest Group (SIG-EC) is running an in-person event for early career members of UKAN+ on Building a Career in Acoustics. Due to a recently announced national rail strike, this event has now been postponed until early 2023.
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Computational Acoustics in Industry Sandpit
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24th -26th April 2023, University College London
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The Computational Acoustic SIG leadership team would like to announce a sandpit event that will be held in London at UCL in April 2023. The sandpit will run over two and a half days and its purpose is to promote academic engagement with industry, and foster new collaborative research that generates novel ideas for solutions to real-world acoustic problems. Three external organisations are each expected to submit and present a computational acoustics challenge/problem to an audience of interested academics and postgraduates from the acoustic community. The audience then organise into smaller groups to delve deeper into the important aspects of the challenge and, from this, they then try to formulate a research approach and determine the resources needed to tackle each challenge. Academics, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduates working in the fields of theoretical and computational acoustics are welcome to attend.
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Format: The basic structure of the workshop is as follows:
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• Each external partner presents their problem or problems at the start of the workshop.
• An academic knowledge translator, liaising with the partner, will also give a further presentation on useful background mathematical/statistical techniques to help initialise discussion.
• Preassigned groups of 4-6 people discuss aspects of the problem or problems and each group highlights some key ideas and/or approaches to consider.
• A plenary session brings everyone back together to discuss the ideas put forward and carefully group them into research themes or pathways.
• Groups self-organise around each theme or pathway and work on the finer details with the aim to define a research proposal and a research team with the expertise to tackle the problem.
• These teams give presentations at the end of the workshop with their conclusions and proposals.
• After the workshop, short research proposals are prepared and submitted to the external partner for consideration. Funding opportunities can subsequently be explored in a follow-up meeting with UKAN+ support.
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The event will be free to attend for UKAN+ members and registration will open in early January. Further information on the event will be made available in the New Year.
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Nick Ovenden, Jon Hargreaves, Amelia Gully and Andrew Gibbs.
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Report on Musical Acoustics Group One Day Meeting
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On the 19th October 2022 a UKAN+ supported event was hosted by Birmingham City University focused on Musical Acoustics. The event was organised by Dr Islah-Ali-MacLachian and involved 7 talks given by 5 presenters to 24 delegates, of which 40%+ were early career researchers with two talks given by an early career researcher, Dr Erdem Atbas of the University of Manchester covering his doctoral work on hearing without headphones using beam forming. He was followed by Professor Patrick Gaydecki who gave talks on real-time electronic adjustment to the sound of bowed instruments. Professor Stephen Dance gave talks on a new method of hearing assessment for musicians and the acoustics of Sitzprobe rehearsals at the Royal Opera House. The finale was Professor Murray Campbell and Dr Arnold Myers demonstrating the brassiness of brass instruments which was most entertaining.
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Symposium for Acoustic Metamaterials
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The Young Researchers in Acoustic Metamaterials (yram.org) organised the 3rd Symposium for Acoustics Metamaterials conference in Nimes, France 19-21st October 2022. Despite strikes in France on the 18th October 2022 sixty early career researchers attended the three-day event. Five plenary lecturers given by Early Career Researchers: Dr Corentin Coulais (University of Amsterdam Dept of Physic) on Odd active metamaterials, Dr Elke Decker (KU Leuven) on Speeding up calculations for infinite periodic structures and their finite counterparts sound, Dr Romain Fleury (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) on Introduction to topological acoustics and examples with one-dimensional sound, Dr Noé Jimenez (University Polytechnic Valencia, Applied Physics) on Engineering holographic metasurfaces for biomedical ultrasound applications, and Dr Gaëlle Poignand (University of Le Mans) on Thermoacoustic effect for the design of original wave-scatterers.
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In addition, 36 twenty-minute presentations on acoustic metamaterials were given by ECRs from across Europe. Plus, a historical tour of Nimes was organised for the afternoon of Thursday 20th October. This was followed by a 90-minute public engagement event featuring an exhibition on Acoustic Metamaterials “In the image of sound”, hosted by Bibliotheque Carre d’Art (Art Museum).
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For the third time the event was supported by the UK Acoustics Network.
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We are looking to plan our schedule in advance. Please email if you are interested in hosting a UKAN+ Zoom webinar. z.hunter@acoustics.ac.uk
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Congratulations to Mohammad, James and Xiaoli who have won the below grants.
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Asymptotic approximation of the large-scale structure of turbulence in
axisymmetric jets: a first principle jet noise prediction method
EPSRC award to University of York and Mohammad Zamir Koshuriyan
£246,178
Nov 22 - Oct 23
Development of a Novel Acoustic Based State-of-Charge Sensor (SOC) for
Lithium-Ion Batteries
BBSRC award to University of Warwick and James Marco
£201,663
Oct 22 - Oct 24
ABCUnloc: Acoustic Backscatter Communication-based Underwater Localization
UKRI award to University of Sheffield and Xiaoli Chu
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If you have any news for our February newsletter do drop us an email before the 27th of January. We are interested to hear a range of news, perhaps you have a recent publication, or you would like to offer a blog for our community or maybe you know of some industry news we could share.
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