Scientists convert starlight into sound, for purposes of study
http://earthsky.org/space/do-stars-make-sounds

2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE)
Location: Tampa, Convention Center, Tampa, Florida, November 6-9
The Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD) is excited to once again organize a technical track at the annual ASME IMECE conference. This year the conference is located in Tampa, Florida and runs from November 3rd through the 9th. The NCAD track is Acoustics, Vibration and Phononics and is track 1 of the conference. Our technical sessions will be on Wednesday (Nov 8th) and Thursday (Nov 9th) of the conference week. During these two days we will host 16 technical sessions on a variety of topics with over 70 technical talks. We are fortunate to have Dr. Massimo Ruzzene from the Georgia Institute of Technology as the Track 1 Plenary Speaker. NCAD will also continue the tradition of honoring a distinguished researcher in the area of noise control and acoustics with the prestigious Rayleigh Lecture. This year’s winner is Dr. Chris Fuller from Virginia Tech University. Key events for the Acoustics, Vibration and Phononics track are listed below. Additional information regarding IMECE2017 is available at the conference website: https://www.asme.org/events/imece

Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Time NCAD Activity
08:00 AM - 09:45 AM Plenary and NCAD Tutorial:
Dr. Massimo Ruzzene 1
“Symmetry and Reciprocity Breaking in
Electromechanical Metamaterials
and Structural Lattices”
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Tech. Sessions: 1-1-2, 1-1-3, 1-5-1, 1-2-1
11:14 AM - 01:30 PM Lunch
01:30 PM - 05:30 PM Technical Sessions 1-1-4 & 1-5-2
03:45 PM - 05:30 PM Rayleigh Lecture: Dr. Chris Fuller
“Acoustic Meta Materials”
Technical Sessions: 1-1-5 & 1-3-1
05:30 PM - 06:45 PM NCAD Wine and Cheese Dinner
Marriot Waterside Hotel

Thursday, November 9, 2017
Time NCAD Activity
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM NCAD Executive Committee
Marriot Waterside Hotel
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM NCAD General Committee Meeting
Marriot Waterside Hotel
08:00 AM - 09:45 AM Technical Sessions: 1-1-6 & 1-4-1
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Technical Sessions: 1-1-7 & 1-1-10
11:45 AM - 01:15 PM Lunch
01:15 PM - 03:00 PM Technical Sessions: 1-1-9 & 1-5-3
03:30 PM - 05:15 PM Technical Sessions: 1-1-8 & 1-1-11

Dynamic Control of Phonon Propagation in Phononic Crystal Waveguide

NOAA's ocean noise strategy. Includes sound clips and interesting links.
http://cetsound.noaa.gov/index

NASA offers a free book on Industrial Noise Control.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19820003985

Sounds of space accumulated by University of Iowa.
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/sounds/

Penn State's Center for Acoustics and Vibration (CAV), along with the Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS) and the International Institute for Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE) is sponsoring an international two day symposium on Flow Induced Noise and Vibration (FLINOVIA) on 27-28 April 2017 at the Nittany Lion Inn in State College, PA. The event is free to attend, and features over 30 invited talks (half from international researchers). For more details, including the list of papers and speakers, and to register for the symposium, please visit www.flinovia.org and click the link to 'April 27-28 2017 Penn State University' on the lower right.

This link provides a self-explanatory video demonstration of acoustic cloaking. This is one of the themes that are often covered at the Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials topic/symposium in our track.
Acoustic Cloak Demonstration

NCAD's yearly newsletter is now available on our website. Please go to the Resources page and select the Newsletter 2017 file.
https://community.asme.org/noise_control_acoustics_division/m/default.aspx