Ninth International Conference on Auditorium Acoustics is 'major success'

摘要

The Auditorium Acoustics meeting series, which started in Birmingham in 1992, reached its very successful ninth in Paris in October 2015. These meetings have all been linked to actual auditoria, mostly new ones. In this case it was the Philharmonie de Paris concert hall that opened in January 2015 and is now nearly finished (!). We were able to attend a symphony concert there, to hear about its genesis and inspect the auditorium. The popularity of the meeting was such that for the first time in the series, we sold out. The conference space effectively imposed a limit of about 170 delegates. Sadly ticket numbers available for the concert and dinner were slighdy lower, resulting in some disappointment. These meetings have become truly international with a total of over 180 registered from a total of 28 countries. Only 19% of the total delegates came from Britain.