Los Angeles Regional Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America
Southern California has a rich and varied acoustics community. Here in the Los Angeles chapter of the Acoustical Society of America, we comprise a community of students, researchers, active industry professionals, and distinguished retirees. All are welcome to join us at our monthly meetings where we discuss various topics running the gamut of the field of acoustics.
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WELCOME TO LA ASA 2025
We are proud to present the following schedule:
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January 21, 2025 – Peter D’Antonio – 50 Years of Musical, Diffraction Physics and Acoustical Memories
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February 25, 2025 – Abeer Alwan – Towards Fair and Unbiased AI. Two case studies: Child Speech Recognition, and Depression Detection from the Speech Signal
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March 18, 2025 – Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Theaters Tour & Demonstration – Registration Required
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April 15, 2025 @ WSP in DTLA – Lawrence Rosenblum – Your Brain’s Secret Perceptual Power: Lessons from Audiovisual Speech Perception
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June 17, 2025 – Location TBD – PechaKucha
Our Next Meeting: June 17, 2025
PechaKucha!
ASA LA meeting on June 17, 2025 will be a PechaKucha event, location to be announced.
VIRTUAL CALL-IN INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED CLOSER TO THE DATE
2025 Meeting History
January 2025 - 50 Years of Musical, Diffraction Physics and Acoustical Memories
Peter D’Antonio was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. He received his B.S. degree from St. John’s University in 1963 and his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, in 1967. Dr. D’Antonio worked as a diffraction physicist at the Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC from 1967-1996. In 1974, he developed a widely used design for modern recording studios, utilizing a temporal and spatial reflection free zone and reflection phase grating diffusors. Dr. D’Antonio founded RPG Diffusor Systems, Inc., in 1983 and pioneered the sound diffusion industry. He is the co-author of the reference textbook Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers: Theory, Design and Application, published by Taylor and Francis. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the Audio Engineering Society and a 2012 Inductee into the music industry’s TECnology Hall of Fame. In 2023 he was awarded the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal for “Contributions to the theory, design and application of acoustic diffusers” by the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. D’Antonio is a co-founder (2017) and Director of Research at REDI Acoustics, LLC, which offers innovative palette of iterative software services.
February 2025 - Towards Fair and Unbiased AI. Two case studies: Child Speech Recognition, and Depression Detection from the Speech Signal
Abeer Alwan received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1992. Since then, she has been with the ECE department at UCLA where she is now a Distinguished Professor and directs the Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory (http://www.seas.ucla.edu/spapl/).
Dr. Alwan’s research interests are in the areas of speech production and perception modeling and applications to speech technology such as automatic speech recognition, speaker identification and text-to-speech synthesis. Her focus is on limited data or low-resource systems where knowledge of speech production and perception, and linguistics can be critical to system performance. Current projects include detecting depression from speech signals, children’s speech recognition, speaker recognition with limited data, and the recognition of low-resource dialects such as the African-American dialect. She is the recipient of several awards including the NSF Research Initiation and Career Awards, NIH FIRST Award, UCLA-TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, Okawa Foundation Award in Telecommunication, and the Engineer’s Council Educator Award. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE, and International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). She was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, co-Editor in Chief of Speech Communication, and Associate Editor of both JASA and IEEE TSALP.
March 2025 - AMPAS Theater Tour & Demonstrations
Lawrence Rosenblum, Professor of Psychology, Emeritus - University of California, Riverside - Your Brain’s Secret Perceptual Power: Lessons from Audiovisual Speech Perception
Lawrence Rosenblum is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of the book See What I’m Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses. He has received multiple National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health grants for his research on multisensory speech and face perception. His research has been published widely in scientific journals and has been featured in Scientific American, The New York Times, and The Economist. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, BBC Horizon, and National Public Radio.
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