Minutes TC-US meeting in Madrid

1. Opening of the Agenda
The chairman Juan A. Gallego-Juárez welcomed the 22 participants (list enclosed) and informed about the evolution of the TC-US since its foundation during the Forum Acusticum 2003 in Seville. The second official meeting was in the Forum Acusticum 2005 in Budapest, but due to the coincidence with the World Congress on Ultrasound (WCU05) in Beijing only a few people attended it. Stephan Radel from the Technical University of Viena took care of that meeting and reported to the chairman.
The 3rd official meeting will be in the 5th Forum Acusticum in Paris next year.

J. A. Gallego-Juárez informed about the objectives of the TC-US, it is an open platform to stimulate joint activities and mutual cooperations between ultrasonic researchers worldwide to initiate common projects in research, development and education as well as to help in organizing structured sessions in ultrasonic or acoustic congresses. The TC-US should also provide information about new activities, research results, papers, books, projects, congresses, workshops, etc.

2. Acoustics 08 Paris - Structured Sessions
Bertrand Dubus, co-chair of the next Acoustics’08 Paris informed about such joint meeting of the 5th Forum Acusticum, 155th ASA Congress and the 9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique. It will be held in Paris from the 29th of June until the 4th of July 2008. There are already established a number of Special Sessions (SS) but it is still possible to propose some new SS. It requires two organizers, one from EAA and other from ASA, and to count on about 5 presentations. People interested can contact Bertrand Dubus. The deadline for new proposals is the end of September.

3. ICU 2009 - Santiago de Chile
Ewald Benes, president of the Board of the International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU) informed about the next Congress ICU09 that will be held in Santiago de Chile in January 2009. It will be organized by Luis Gaete from the University of Santiago de Chile. Ewald Benes underlined that for the first time an international congress on ultrasound will be held in the Latin-American subcontinent. Santiago is a very safe city with modern hotels and good transportation system (metro and buses). The University of Santiago offers a first class venue for the meeting. The prices in Santiago are cheaper than in Europe or in USA and finally January is summer time in Santiago. He encouraged people to attend the meeting. It will help to the Latin-American ultrasonic colleagues and will contribute to the extension of the ultrasonic field in an emergent area.

4. News
J. A. Gallego-Juárez informed that the ICU has become International Affiliated Member of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) together with other acoustic organizations such as EAA (European Acoustical Association), FIA (Federación Iberoamericana de Acústica) the WESPAC (Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, I-INCE (International Institute of Noise Control Engineering) and IIAV (International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration). In the future an ICA Committee (Conference Coordination Committee) will coordinate the International Conferences related to acoustics in order to avoid coincidences in the dates or even in the topics.

5. New ideas and/or proposals
J. A. Gallego- Juárez informed about the convenience of making active the different sub-branches in which the TC-US is organized. In Seville it was established a working group constituted by several persons covering different areas of the ultrasonic field (see web site). However, so far no many specific actions have been carried out. The use of the web site (http://www.european-acoustics.org/TCs/US) has to be increased as the mechanism for future initiatives. This site will be updated soon.

Adriano Alippi proposed to activate the possibility of a Summer School for Ultrasound in Erice (Sicily) as several years ago was for Physical Acoustics. It would be necessary to explore the potential interest of people.
Koen van den Abeele suggested using the web site to publish the offers of scholarships for students or post-doc positions, as well as for the information about the European projects in which ultrasonic people are involved.

J. A. Gallego-Juárez informed that the web site is open for including such information and therefore he encouraged the members of the TC-US to send any information or initiative to the chairman of the TC-US to be included in the web-site. He also suggested to visit the web site.

6. J. A. Gallego-Juárez finally informed that after five years in office he would like to pass the chair to another person. He proposed his colleague Enrique Riera (eriera@ia.cetef.csic.es) from the Instituto de Acústica, to take care of the TC-US for the next future. Such proposal is accepted. The chairman thanks the attendance.


Madrid, September 2007


Juan A. Gallego-Juárez


List of participants

Martyn Hill
US particle manipulation, especially in microfluids
School of Engineering Science

Bertrand Dubus
IEMN- ISEN Lille France

Pedro Cintas
Chemical applications of power US, material science, US microscopy and imaging techniques
Spain

Victor Akulichev
NL Acoustics, Cavitation, Underwater Acoustics, Acoustic Oceanography
Pacific Oceanological Institute Far Easter Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Achim Loske
Underwater shock waves, Cavitation, Medical Applications
Centro Física Aplicada y Tecnologias Avanzadas UNAM

Sadayuja Ueha
High power US, Ultrasonic Actuators
Tokyo Institute Tehnology

Oberti Stefano
(representing Jürg Dual)
US particle manipulation in micromachined devices
Switzerland

Miguel Angel Rodríguez
US Signal processing
Spain

Jose Luis San Emeterio
US Signal processing, Piezoelectric Transducers
Spain

José Vicente García
US applications on mass transfer processes in Food. NDT US applications
Spain

Vitalyi Gusev
Laser US, NL Acoustics, Thermoacoustics, Surface Acoustic waves, NDT/NDE
Russia

Koen Van Den Abeele
NDT/NDE, NL Acoustics, Biological applications
Belgium

Sergio Dos Santos
NDT/NDE, NL Acoustics, Signal processing, Ultrasound
France

Robert Mettin
Germany

Nico F. Declercq
US in anisotropy media, Diffraction effects on periodical structures, piezoelectric media, acousto-optic imaging

Tadeus Gudra
US in Medicine, Airborne US transducers, US Imaging, US in general
Poland

Krysztof Opielinski
US Imaging, US in Medicine, US in general
Poland

Bogumil Bjilinde
Physical acoustics, Molecular Acoustics, US in liquids
Poland

Antonio Ramos
US Imaging, NDT/NDE, US estimation and measurements
Instituto de Acústica, CSIC, Madrid

Olivier Boumatar
NL Acoustics, US Imaging, NDT Applications
France

Enrique Riera
Power Ultrasound, Airborne Ultrasonic Transducers, Power Ultrasonic Processing and Industrial Applications
Instituto de Acústica, CSIC, Madrid

Juan A. Gallego-Juárez
High Power Ultrasonics, Macrosonics.
Instituto de Acústica, CSIC, Madrid