NO STC Meeting

1. NO STC Meeting • Best Student Papers in Speech Communication, Salt Lake City – CONGRATULATIONS! • 1st Place ASA winner: Yolanda Holt, Ohio State University: “Are vowels in African American English affected by Southern vowel shift?” • 2nd Place ASA winner: Wendy Herd, University of Kansas: “Incomplete neutralization of /t/ and /d/ in flapping environments: An analysis of the North Midland dialect of American English” • 3rd Place ASA winner: Douglas Cook, Purdue University: “Structural analysis of a three-layered vocal fold model” • Thanks to Terry Nearey for coordinating the student judging

2. About Paris Meeting • Deadline for abstracts: Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008 • Corresponding author must register before submitting an abstract • A single corresponding author is limited to two abstracts (three when paying an additional fee; hard limit of two for students) • Any participant can be a co-author of as many papers as desired • Deadline for optional full paper: April 30, 2008 • Our TPOM coordinator: Paul Iverson • Our Student judge coordinator: ? (Need volunteers) • Other Information: • 172 special sessions, 15 general sessions • All papers, invited and contributed, are 20 minutes • Website available: http://www.acoustics08-paris.org • Register as early as possible (have extra rooms if needed) • Joint technical committee meetings (1 hour long) • See how special sessions are going – minimum of six papers • Students are encourage to apply for travel grants • http://www.acoustics08-paris.org/students/travel-grants • ASA, EAA, SFA and Conference organizing committee are putting up funds • Will be asked to provide a photo when you register • Suggestions for plenary speakers (4 plenary talks altogether)

3. Special Sessions for Paris

4. Paris meeting

5. Miami meeting • Nov. 10-14, 2008 • Special Sessions (must be finalized by Saturday) • Noise (6), Architectural Acoustics (9), Signal Processing (5), Underwater Acoustics (2), Musical Acoustics (1) • Speech • Special session to honor Ken Stevens (Helen Hanson) • Infant vocalizations (Ben Munson).   • articulatory-acoustic modeling in infants, cross-linguistic differences in early vocalizations, and early vocal-tract development (Lucie Menard, Susan Rvachew, Houri Vourperian, and colleagues).   • suggestions of work by others? • Suggestions for Portland meeting (May 18-22, 2009)

6. From Alan Pierce (Editor-in-Chief) • POMA (Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics) – society’s online open access journal • Started receiving submissions on Nov. 2. Will receive submissions through March for SLC meeting • Will be able to submit papers from this meeting a week after conference ends – please submit papers! • SC’s associate editor: Suzanne Boyce

7. Cont. • Should ASA reissue volumes of journal on DVD using pdf format ? • Will you purchase it ($100?) • Members felt that it is a good idea to reissue the volumes, although only two members raised their hands when asked if they would purchase it. • Should Acoustics today go from 4 to 6 publications? • How soon after hardcopy published? • How available should we make it? • Members felt that 4 publications are sufficient. However, it is okay to go to 6 if advertisements cover the cost. Members also felt that the publication should be put online and made available to everyone, not just ASA members.

8. Other issues • NSF accepting proposals Jan. 18 for a “super duper” short course for recent PhDs – want to encourage research of young scientists (recently graduated PhDs) in South America and the Carribean –Should ASA get involved? Members felt this is a good idea • Presently, ASA is planning for the 2010 meeting (joint with IMA, FIA) to be in Cancun – could have a following satellite meeting • what topics of interest in Latin America • Co-organizers from Latin America

9. Other issues cont. • How should we grow the society? • Is there a new area(s) or an old area(s) that we want to be a part of ASA? • If so, how should we go about bringing the area(s) in? • Think outside of the box. • Keep POMA in mind – series of articles from people discussing new areas. • Don’t worry about price tag right now • Feedback:so far • Cheaper meetings and./or discounts for early career people, • look at areas in European societies that are bringing in new people, • Let 2nd ASA meeting be a special focus meeting or a general meeting with a one-day satellite meeting to target certain populations (along the lines of what ASHA does - special interest divisions) • Areas to consider • genertics (would integrate people from hearing, speech, voice), • music (Ingo Titze is a contact for the music world) • speech engineering • environmental engineering (bioacoustics, weather, architectural acoustics)

10. Other issues cont. • Evaluation forms -- put technical area on the form • Are people having trouble getting travel approval and/or travel reimbursement for posters vs. papers? • Nominating fellows – help identify people you think are qualified • Associate Members should apply for Full Membership • Form at end of program, two full members can sign tonight • Chateaubriand fellowships for a 1 yr postdoc in France on projects in speech signal processing and image processing, all with a linguistic bent. Contact Gerard Chollet <gerard.chollet@enst.fr> • Special Initiatives for 2009? • Committee Chair Reports • Jodie Kreiman (Membership Committee) – Jodie will be calling on people to nominate members to be fellows. She will also make recommendatios of other fellows to write letters of recommendation. Nominations need a nominating letter and two recommendation letters. • Freddie Bell Berti (Medals and Awards) • Freddie is stepping down and Anders Lofquist will replace her • Freddie Bell Berti, Peggy Nelson, Diane Kewley-Port (Executive Council) • Jennell Vick (Student Council)

11. Cont. • Report from Associate Editors • Speech Production • Anders Lofqvist gave a few comments. Some questioned if a publication in POMA precluded it from being published in JASA. It does not. There was a discussion as to who will publish in POMA. Will it mainly be people from industry. Some felt that academics will also use this publication to present their research.