ICA 2025 New Orleans

Special Sessions

The Special Sessions and their organizers are listed below, grouped according to the primary ASA Technical Committees under which they are being organized. For descriptions of the Special Sessions, see here.

Acoustical Oceanography

Acoustical Oceanography at Deep Water Abrupt Topography
Session Organizers: John Colosi, Ying-Tsong Lin, and Lauren Freeman

Bioacoustic Attenuation Spectroscopy
Session Organizers: Orest Diachok and Chris Feuillade

Animal Bioacoustics

Arthropod Biotremology and Bioacoustics
Session Organizers: Joseph Lai and Sebastian Oberst

Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in Ocean Acoustics
Session Organizers: Shima Abadi and Léa Bouffaut

Progress on Bioacoustics of Fish
Session Organizers: Kelly S. Boyle and John S. Allen

Architectural Acoustics

Acoustics of Sustainable Building Assemblies and More
Session Organizers: Arthur van der Harten, Jonathan Broyles, and Ariana Astolfi

At the Intersection of Speech and Architecture
Session Organizers: Kenneth W. Good Jr. and Evelyn Hoglund

Data-Driven Room Acoustics
Session Organizers: Xenofon Karakonstantis and Ning Xiang

Day of ASHRAE Part 1 – Sound Standards and Codes
Session Organizers: Karl Peterman, David Manley, Paul Bauch, and Steve Wortman

Day of ASHRAE Part 2 – Emerging Trends in HVAC Noise and Noise Control
Session Organizers: Jerry Lily, Tony Hoover, and Derrick Knight

Day of ASHRAE Part 3 – Research, Education, Certification, and Remediation
Session Organizers: Erik-Miller Klein, Samuel Underwood, Joe Bridger, and Kevin Herreman

Memorial Session Honoring David Lubman
Session Organizers: Jason E. Summers and Francesco Martellotta

The Intersection of the Acoustic and Structural Domains in Sound Transmission in Buildings
Session Organizers: Evelyn Way, Pablo Daroux, and Jorge Patricio

Biomedical Acoustics

Bubbles and Ultrasound – Physiological Considerations
Session Organizers: Virginie Papadopoulou, Nick Ovenden, and Thanasi Athanasiadis

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble…Towards a Cavitation Dose
Session Organizers: Christy K. Holland and Eleanor Stride

Super Resolution Ultrasound Imaging
Session Organizers: Pengfei Song and Libertario Demi

Technological Developments and Emerging Biomarkers in Elasticity Imaging
Session Organizers: John Cormack, Javier Brum, and Zhiyu Sheng

Wave Propagation and Aberration in Complex Media: From Theory to Applications
Session Organizers: Vera Khokhlova and Doug Mast

Computational Acoustics

Computational Methods for Nonlinear Problems in Acoustics and Vibration
Session Organizers: Samuel Wallen, John Allen, and Martin Verweij

Parabolic Equation Methods Across Acoustics
Session Organizers: Jennifer Cooper, Michelle Swearinger, and Philippe Blanc-Benon

Education in Acoustics

Acoustics Around the World: Education Programs at Universities
Session Organizers: Dan Russell, Likun Zhang, and Joao Louis Ealo Cuello

Acoustics Education Research for Newbies: The Science of Teaching and Learning
Session Organizers: Kim Riegel and Dan Russell

Engineering Acoustics

Acoustic Holography: Advances and Applications
Session Organizers: Randall Williams and Oleg Sapozhnikov

Chip-Scale Phononics and Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Devices
Session Organizers: Abigail Juhl and Matthew Guild

Recording and Processing of Higher-Order Spatial Audio
Session Organizers: Gary Elko and Filippo Fazi

Musical Acoustics

Discrimination Tests: Methodologies and Applications
Session Organizers: Andy Piacsek and Claudia Fritz

Musical Instruments in Jazz
Session Organizers: Jonas Braasch, Murray Campbell, and E. K. Ellington Scott

String Instruments
Session Organizers: Vasileios Chatziioannou, Montserrat Pamies-Vila, and Mark Rau

Noise

Assessment of Low-Frequency Sound in Noise Criteria
Session Organizers: Walter Montano, Bhisham Sharma, David Woolworth

Exposure Response and Community Tolerance Level
Session Organizers: Ken Kaliski and David Michaud

History of Acoustics and Evolution of Sound Measurement
Session Organizers: Walter Montano, Brandon Cudequest

From Boom to Zoom: Department of Defense and Noise
Session Organizers: Kent Gee, James Potter, and Erica Rohr

Sandy Fidell Memorial Session
Session Organizers: Richard Horonjeff

Physical Acoustics

Acoustic Holograms and Wavefront Modulation Techniques
Session Organizers: Noé Jiménez and Kai Melde

Acoustic Manipulations of Objects: Theories and Applications
Session Organizers: Joao Ealo and Likun Zhang

Acoustic Radiation Force and Its Applications
Session Organizers: Mohamed Ghanem and Oleg Sapozhnikov

Acoustofluidics
Session Organizers: James Friend, Max Denis, and Charles Thompson

Celebrating Steven L. Garrett's Fifty Years of Contributions in Acoustics
Session Organizers: David A. Brown and Robert Smith

Infrasound
Session Organizers: Philip Blom, David Green, and Stephen Arrowsmith

It's Not Physics
Session Organizers: Steven Garrett and Roger Waxler

Mesoscopics in Acoustics and Elasticity
Session Organizers: John Yoritomo, Marco Scalerandi, and Sandrine Rakotonarivo

Meteorological Acoustics
Session Organizers: Roger Waxler and Natalia Sidorovskaia

Nonlinear Acoustics in Nondestructive Testing
Session Organizers: Mourad Bentahar and Chris Kube

Nonlinear Waves in Architected Solids
Session Organizers: Michael Haberman and Vincent Tournat

Session in Honor of Richard Raspet
Session Organizers: Gregory W. Lyons, Keith Attenborough, Jeremy Webster, and W. C. Kirkpatrick Alberts II

Topological Aspects of Acoustic Waves
Session Organizers: Georgios Theocharis, Vassos Achilleos, and Vincent Pagneux

Viscothermal Effects in Phononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials
Session Organizers: Jose Sanchez-Dehesa, Vicente Cutanda Henriquez, Matt Guild, and Hales Swift

Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments
Session Organizers: Janina Fels and Virginia Best

Cadenza Machine Learning Challenge (CAD2): Improving Music for People with Hearing Loss
Session Organizers: Trevor Jerome, William Whitmer, and Alinka Greasley

The Hartmann Effect: Bill Hartmann’s Influence on Monaural and Binaural Hearing Research
Session Organizers: Matt Goupell and Gin Best

Virtual Thunder: Top Presentations from the P&P Trainee Lightning Round Competition
Session Organizers: Varsha Rallapalli, Greg Ellis, and Bill Whitmer

Signal Processing in Acoustics

Acoustic Array Processing and Sound Field Reconstruction
Session Organizers: Efren Fernandez-Grande and Peter Gerstoft

Machine Learning in Underwater Acoustics
Session Organizers: Kendal Leftwich, Shaun Pies, and Youngmin Choo

Physics-Inspired Neural Networks (PINNs) in Underwater Acoustics
Session Organizers: Ananya Sen Gupta and Monika Aggarwal

Universal and Doubly Adaptive Methods for Signal Processing
Session Organizers: John Buck, Kathleen Wage, and Andrew Singer

Speech Communication

Speech Perception Beyond Intelligibility
Session Organizers: Melissa M. Baese-Berk and Susannah Levi

Structural Acoustics and Vibration

Acoustic Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals
Session Organizers: Christina Naify, Alexey Titovich, Bogdan Popa, Behrooz Yousefzadeh, and Hussein Nassar

Active and Tunable Acoustic Metamaterials
Session Organizers: Christina Naify, Michael Haberman, Bogdan Popa, and Serife Tol

Aerospace and Structural Acoustics
Session Organizers: Peter Karrien and Bhisham Sharma

Constrained Layer Damping
Session Organizers: Ben Shafer, Michael Dickerson, and Ian Bacon

Friction Acoustics
Session Organizers: Trevor Jerome, Kathryn Matlack, Vasileios Chatziioannou, and Eric Rokni

Underwater Acoustics

Ambient Sound Measurements and Models
Session Organizers: Martin Siderius, Bruce Martin, Kay Gemba, and Jie Yang

Bill Kuperman (1943-2024): Contributions to the Field of Underwater Acoustics
Session Organizers: Kevin Heaney, Chris Verlinden, and David Barclay

Boundary Interactions Including Shear Wave Effects in Underwater Acoustics
Session Organizers: Davis B. Reeder and Anatoliy N. Ivakin

Directional Sensing: Applications and Methods
Session Organizers: Kaus Raghukumar, Aaron Thode, Kerri Seger, and Ludovic Tenorio