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INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ACOUSTICS Minutes of the 2004 ICA Board meeting 2004 April 3 09:99-17:00 hrs Kyoto International Conference Hall Kyoto, Japan 1. Opening and Approval of the Agenda President Daigle opens the meeting at 09:00 am on Saturday, 2004 April 3 in room 501 of the Kyoto International Conference Hall. Present were: Gilles Daigle, President Volker Mellert, Treasurer Lawrence Crum, Past President Ewald Benes Phillipe Blanc-Benon (President of SFA and rep. Claude Legros) Anders Bostrom Douglas Cato (rep. Charles Don) Stephen Crandall George Dodd Samir Gerges Juan Gallego-Juarez Tor Kihlman Sonoko Kuwano Seiichiro Namba Philip Nelson Michael Vorlander (President of EAA) Charles Schmid (Exec Dir of ASA) Antoni Sliwinski Hideki Tachibana Ren-He Zhang Regrets were received from Giovanni Brambilla, Charles Don, Nikolai Dubrovsky, Claude Legros, and Suk Wang Yoon. The following agenda was appoved: 2004 ICA Board Meeting Agenda 1st Board Meeting on 4/3/04(Sat) 01. Opening and Approval of the Agenda 02. Announcements 03. Minutes of the 2003 Board Meeting held in Paris (Attachment 1) 04. Report of the IUPAP Council and Commission Chairs Meeting 05. Report of Treasurer: Financial Report; Member Dues Status and Expenses (Attachment 2) 06. Commission New Membership / Resignation 07. ICA Sponsorship of Other Meetings on Acoustics (Attachment 3) 08. ICA Support and Sponsorship of Regional Meetings (Attachment 4) - Application for the PAS Subjective and Objective Assessment of Sound - Application for the Frontier of Nonlinear Physics Conference 09. IUPAP/IUTAM Sponsorship of Conferences 10. 18th ICA Progress Report, Kyoto 2004 11. ICA Awards and Grants for 18th ICA, Kyoto 2004 (Attachment 5) - ICA Early-Career Awards - Young Scientist / Student Conference Attendance Grants with ASA/CIRE - PowerPoint presentation of ICA activities 12. 19th ICA Progress Report, Madrid 2007 13. Promotion of International Union for Acoustics within ICSU (Attachment 6) - Relationship with IUPAP and IUTAM - Report on the IIAV Board Meeting - Promotion of Member Society 14. Nominating Committee for Election of ICA New Board Members (Attachment 7) Announcement for Officers and Delegates Recommendation 15. ICA 2010 Proposal Presentation (Attachment 8) - Invitation for 20th ICA venue: Acoust. Soc. of China, Acoust. Soc. of Korea, Australian Acoust. Soc. 16. Other Business - ICA Web Page Revision - Others 17. Next Meeting Schedule - 2005 Board Meeting: 18. Close of the Meeting 2. Announcement Announcements were made regarding the lunch schedule and that the presentations of proposal for the 20th Congress in 2010 would begin at 14:00 until 16:00. 3. Minutes of the 2003 Board Meeting held in Paris Since not all Board members had reviewed the Minutes, formal approval was delayed till later. The minutes of the 2003 Paris Board meeting was approved before the close to the Board meeting. 4. Report of the IUPAP Council and Commission Chairs Meeting President Daigle explained that as off last year, IUPAP will no longer provide any financial support to conferences in Acoustics. The President noted that the Kyoto Congress applied for financial support, but the application was not approved. Prof. Namba asked for further clarification as to why the Kyoto Congress did not received the requested financial support. The President re-emphasized that due to budgetary constraints, IUPAP has decided to discontinue funding the conference of the affiliated commissions. 5. Report of Treasurer: Financial Report; Member Dues Status and Expenses. Treasure Mellert gave a PowerPoint report on the balance of ICA financial account for the period of the ICA Board Meeting and the status of member payment. A copy of the budget summary and the membership payment are attached. 6. Commission New Membership/ Resignation The President noted that the Southern African Acoustics Institute (SAAI) had gratefully accepted the offered of Observer Status. Outstanding is the application from the Belarusian Acoustical Society. President Daigle wrote to the President of the Society, Prof. Dezhkunov, but received no reply. In the absence of any further information regarding the Society, the application is again tabled. 7. ICA Sponsorship of Other Meetings on Acoustics No application for sponsorship was received. 8. ICA Support and Sponsorship of Regional Meetings Applications were received from the following conferences a. Subjective and Objective Assessment of Sound b. Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics c. 9th School on Acousto-optics and Applications After some discussion it was felt that acoustics played a minor role in the conference on Nonlinear Physics and further, the expected attendance at conference was too large to qualify as a specialty symposium. Funding was approved for the other two conferences (USD 2000 each) 9. IUPAP/IUTAM Sponsorship of Conferences N/A 10. 18th ICA Progress Report, Kyoto 2004 Prof. Tachibana gave a brief report. The viewgraph are attached. 11. ICA Awards and Grants for 18th ICA, Kyoto 2004 ? ICA Early-Career Awards The Chair of Awards Committee, Larry Crum, gave a brief summary. He distributed two versions of the certificate asking the Board members to indicate their preference. Crum also circulated the medal, explaining that the designer choose to make an oval medal to accommodate the ICA logo. A total of 17 nominations were received. Awards will be given to two candidates during an award ceremony on Sunday during the opening ceremony. To Prof. Timothy Leighton (University of Southampton) "for both scientific and educational contributions to underwater acoustics, particularly for the role of bubbles in scientific phenomena." To Prof. Oleg Sapozhnikov (Moscow State University) "for contributions to nonlinear acoustics, particularly for theoretical and experimental studies of high intensity ultrasound." ? Young Scientist/ Student Conference Attendance Grants The Chair of Committee, Phil Nelson gave a brief report. A total of 16 grants of USE 750 each will be given in Kyoto ? PowerPoint presentation of ICA activities President Daigle gave a brief presentation summarizing ICA activities. The presentation will be made during the General Assembly. A copy of the slides is attached. 12. 19th ICA Progress Report, Madrid 2007. Juan Gallego gave a brief summary and distributed the First Announcement. He also described the satellite meeting ISMA 2007 and distributed the First Announcement. 13. Promotion of International Union for Acoustics within ICSU President Daigle gave a PowerPoint presentation to summarize the status. The presentation will also be given during the General Assembly. A copy of the slide is attached. 14. Nominating Committee for Election of ICA New Board Members. Announcement for Officers and Delegates Recommendation The Chair of the Nominating Committee, Larry Crum gave a summary report and presented the following slate Officers: President: YOON NELSON Secretary-general KUWANO Treasurer: FASTL Past President DAIGLE Designated Seats: China HOU France BLAND-BENON Germany FASTL Italy POMPOLI Japan KUWANO Russia DUBROWSKY UK NELSON USA SCHMID Open Seats (6 nominations for 5 seats) Australia CATO Austria BENES Poland SLIWINSKI Spain GALLEGO-JUAREZ Brazil GERGES New Zealand DODD Thus there will be an election for President and the 5 open seats. 15. ICA 2010 Proposal Presentation a. The proposal from the Australian Acoustical Society is presented by Ken Mikl with the participation of Marion Burgess b. The proposal from the Acoustical Society of China is presented by Tian Jing with the participation of Feng-Hua Li c. The proposal from the Acoustical Society of Korea is presented by ???? and ???? Before the general discussion of the proposals, Board member Ren-He Zhang from China and Doug Cato from Australia leave the room Following the formal presentations, the Board considered the requirements to host the International Congress on Acoustics and debated the merits of the three proposals. Ballots were then prepared and each Board Member was asked to rank order the three proposals. A second ballot with the top two proposals was circulated for vote to confirm the result. In both votes, on proposal was ranked first. Accordingly, the proposal from the Australian Acoustical Society was retained and Sydney was chosen as the venue for the 20th triennial Congress in 2010. All presenters were thanked and informed of the result orally and a formal letter will be sent to the Australian Acoustical Society by the President. 16. Other Business The minutes of the Board meeting in Paris are approved and funding for the conference on "Subjective and Objective Assessment of Sound" and the "9th School on Acousto-optics and Applications" is confirmed 17. Next Meeting Schedule The next meeting schedule will be brought up during the second Board meeting on Friday. 18. Close of the Meeting The President closed the meeting at 4:30 pm. |