Melville, New York, April 21, 2004---Birds chirping, jackhammers rattling, steel drums playing, trains screeching, sopranos singing---these are some of the sounds of New York City in May. Researchers from around the world will discuss some of these sounds, and many others, at the 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) from May 24-28 in New York City. All technical sessions will be held at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, 811 7th Avenue (on 53rd Street), 212-581-1000. More than 1200 papers will be presented. No papers will be presented on Wednesday, May 26, the day that ASA celebrates its anniversary with special events, which are described at the end of this news release.

Acoustics is the science of sound and its applications. The ASA is the largest scientific organization in the United States devoted to acoustics, with over 7000 members worldwide.

NEWS CONFERENCES AND WORLD WIDE PRESSROOM
ASA is planning a series of special events and news conferences on various meeting topics throughout the week of the meeting. The schedule will be available in early May. If you are interested in attending these news conferences, please fill out the reply form at the end of this news release. We also encourage you to use ASA's "World Wide Press Room" (located at http://www.acoustics.org/press). By the week of May 16, the site will contain detailed lay-language descriptions of selected meeting papers as well as overviews of major acoustics topics. More information on how to cover the meeting can be found at the end of the release.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
The following items describe some highlights from among the many papers being given at the meeting. Full abstracts of the papers mentioned below can be viewed by typing in the last name of the author or the appropriate paper code at the ASA Meeting Abstracts database:

Contact: Ben Stein
bstein@aip.org
301-209-3091
American Institute of Physics
21-Apr-2004

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