DESCRIPTION:

The GBC-ASA meeting scheduled for Tuesday, December, 18, 2001 will feature guest speaker, William Hartmann for our winter social gathering.

The topic of discussion will be how human listeners localize a sound despite the unreliable localization cues that are found in rooms. The talk will describe how we subconsciously cope with this difficult situation and re-weight physical cues to properly localize sound.

In view of the festive character of the season, the talk will include a convincing demonstration of the human reweighting strategy, as well as a digression about an audio recording technique for creating a convincing spatial impression with a small musical ensemble such as a string quartet.

A full Abstract of the planned talk is found at Hartmannabstract.html

We compiled a list of links to information about Bill Hartmann and his work with ASA and Michigan State University 

For more about the BU Hearing Research Center click here
http://www.bu.edu/hrc/

For more information about the conference center at BU, please visit http://www.bu.edu/ocs/

For directions at the BU web site visit http://www.bu.edu/ocs/castle/castledirections.html

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PARKING:

Bay State Road just past the Castle

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:

Green Line to the 
BU East stop

DINNER/ SOCIAL PLANS

Dinner will be a catered affair by BU conference services. Our dinner menu will be buffet including three main dishes.

COST:

$30 per person for those who RSVP to join the dinner. This will be collected at the event.