INVITATION - INBJUDAN

Man & Sound Environment 2010
The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University (Ljudmiljöcentrum) in collaboration with The Swedish Noise Research Network “Man and Noise” (forskarnätverket Människan & Bullret)

When: 9.00 – 17.00 Wednesday the 29th of September 2010
Where: Kulturanatomen, The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Biskopsgatan 7, 223 62 Lund

The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University arranges an internordic and interdisciplinary symposium/conference on the 29th of September in cooperation with The Swedish Noise Research Network “Man and Noise”. The aim is to present recent research and new dissertations on sound environmental issues and also to emphasize Scandinavia as a growing region of sound environmental research.

The conference is open to everybody interested and is free of charge. Coffee, lunch and a proceeding of the conference will be available to all visitors free of charge.

However the space is limited and therefore we need a notification from you that you will visit the conference (name and address) as soon as possible, not later than the 20th of September. You are welcome to do so by email to: projektledare@ljudcentrum.lu.se, Please write “29 Sept” in the subject line.

Don´t miss this opportunity to get an update on the scientific frontier and learn about recent research from the Nordic countries on the subject of sound environment

Enquires can by made to: projektledare@ljudcentrum.lu.se or ulf.landstrom@hig.se

Program

08.30-09.00 Registration

09.00-09.10 Opening of the symposium - Frans Mossberg
The Sound Environment Centre at the University of Lund

09.10-09.40 Effects of transportation noise on sleep - Assessment of nighttime noise exposure from railway and road traffic and effects on self-reported sleep and sleep assessed by polysomnography - Gunn Marit Aasvang, Nasjonalt Folkehelseinstitutt, Norway

09.40-10.10 Traffic noise and cardiovascular disease - Jenny Selander, Karolinska Institutet,
Sweden

10.10-10.30 Pause

10.30-11.00 Non occupational noise exposure, sources, exposure and effects on hearing - Jaana Jokitulppo, University of Kuopio, Finland

11.00-11.30 Annoyance from low frequency noise - Christian Sejer Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark

11.30-12.00 Urban noise and strategies of silencing - Jacob Kreutzfeldt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.30 Hearing conservation among classical musicians – needs, means and attitudes - Heli Koskinen, Technical University of Helsinki, Finland

13.30-14.00 Room acoustics and cognitive load when listening to speech - Robert Ljung,
University of Gävle, Sweden

14.00-14.20 Pause

14.20-14.50 Hearing in young men - the influence of military noise and epidemiological aspects - Per Muhr - Karolinska Institutet och Försvarsmakten, Sweden

14.50-15.20 Sensing the environment – development of monitoring aids for persons with profound deafness or deafblindness - Parivash Ranjbar, University of Örebro, Sweden

15.20-15.50 Coffee-break

15.50-16.20 Communication Acoustics in Classroom Environments - On the Use of Assistive Listening devices - Johan Odelius, University of Luleå, Sweden

16.20-16.50 Assessment of speech intelligibility in background noise and reverberation - Jens Bo Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

16.50-17.00 End of the symposium - Frans Mossberg, The Sound Environment Centre at the University of Lund, Sweden

Programmet som pdf-fil

Adress:
Kulturanatomen, The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Biskopsgatan 7, 223 62 Lund

Map over dep of Arts and Cultural studies - / - Map over University area

NB! Parking can be expensive and tricky to find!! So if you come by car, leave yourself plenty of time!

Train:
Trains connect regurlarily to Lund C every day. Timetables at Skånetrafiken and SJ. Bus
No. 1 from the station takes you to Sölvegatan where you jump of at the first stop.

http://www.ljudcentrum.lu.se/