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On May 17 Danish Acoustical Society had invited one of Europe's leading researchers in noise and health, Martin Van den Berg from the Dutch Ministry of Environment, to talk about WHO / EU Noise and health effects. Several members of the Hearing System Group participated.
The Center for Playware to participate in Copenhagens new Play Festival w00t
Professor Jens Christian Andersen, Lector at Center for Automation gives a talk on DR2 and Go' Morgen P3 regarding current developments in the field of humanoid robotic research
On May 16 the story about Forskningens Døgn was broadcasted on TV2 Lorry with interviews from Hearing Systems.
A two-week collaboration research stay at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) at the Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE)
IEEE Spectrum - the globally leading magazine for electrical engineers - brings in its March issue a comprehensive feature article about activities in the Bornholm power system, which is one of the key PowerLabDK facilities.
More than one hundred visitors from the public took part in the various interactive activities in building 354 that demonstrated current research and facilities of the Hearing Systems and Acoustic Technology groups.
On 16 April the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA) awarded the annual ”E-kandidat” prizes for BEng or MSc projects. This year more prizes than usual were available as the so called E-Group under IDA celebrated its 100 years. Out of 10 ”E-kandidat” prizes not less than 5 went to DTU Elektro students. These prizes are only awarded upon recommendation.
Once again DTU RoboCup was a tremendous success, the Final, 11 April 2013, attracted a lot of interested spectators, both young and old, children and adults, and the press not to forget
Invitation of interest to all in the Electronics Group!
Need to learn - nice to be good at working with COMSOL!
During his visit in Denmark Professor W. Gerard Hurley took time to give a most interesting lecture!
Awards for 2 of Electronics Group's students!
A 1-day lecture by Søren K. Christensen from Bang & Olufsen, Struer, Denmark
2-day lectures held by Martin Foster from the University of Sheffield, UK
Presentation of 5 papers as well as business visits.
Bringing the new spherical microphone with him, PhD student Marton Marschall is at the moment on an external research stay at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) in Sydney, a part of the newly established Autralian Hearing Hub at Macquarie University
A smart grid mapping performed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) reveals that Denmark is leading smart grid research in Europe.
Professor Henrik Hautop Lund from the Center for Playware has been invited to talk at TEDxChange in Coimbatore, India on the 6th of April, 2013. The TEDxChange is sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Samel Arslanagic from DTU Elektro, Electromagnetic Systems Group nominated as teacher of the fall semester 2012 and January 2013
Our Hearing Systems group was well represented at the 36th MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), which took place in Baltimore, USA, from February 16-20.
In October 2011 Danish Ministry for Climate, Energy and Building published the “Main report - The Smart Grid Network’s recommendations”.
Electromagnetic Systems group receives highest Quality of Teaching evaluation in the European School of Antennas
Profesor Henrik Hautop Lund from Center for Playware (AUT) was, on the 29th of January, 2013, awarded the Honorary Professorship title at Seogang College, Seoul, Korea, based upon his work in the area of Playware and playful welfare Technology. http://blog.daum.net/sgkimmi/43
Pierre Pinson has been appointed Professor in Modelling of Electricity Markets at DTU Elektro, Center for Electric Power and Energy. He will be heading the Electricity Market group with 10 scientific staff members. His appointment will start on the 15th of March.
Senior Consulstant Flemming Hansen, Radiolab, Denmark
A new research centre ‘Oticon Centre of Excellence for Hearing and Speech Sciences’ has been founded under the leadership of Professor Torsten Dau in parallel with CAHR.
The Center For Fast Ultrasound Imaging has received a grant for 75 mio. DKK for the development of portable intuitive ultrasound scanners.
The Center For Fast Ultrasound Imaging has received a grant for 75 mio. DKK for the development of portable intuitive ultrasound scanners.
Dr. Yunqiu Wu has joined the group of Electromagnetic Systems at DTU Electrical Enginnering as a Post-Doctoral researcher for the time period 01.11.2012 - 01.09.2013. Dr. Wu comes from School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and she will be working on a project entitled Numerical and Experimental Characterization of Structured Materials” together with Associate Prof. Samel Arslanagic and Prof. Olav Breinbjerg. The project is at the frontier of structured materials research, and its results will be of a significant value with potential to further improve design, manufacturing, and characterization of structured materials.
DTU Electrical Engineering (Electronics Group) has been granted money for the EuroTraining programme project by the EU Commission.
On November 26-27, our Centre for Applied Hearing Research organized the 6th annual meeting of the ARCHES network (Audiological Research Cores in Europe) in Copenhagen
Fondens grundsten er, at entreprenørskab kan læres. Aktiviteterne og måderne det gøres på er mange, og der udvikles stadig nye rammer for at være med til at sikre, at Danmark også i fremtiden kan byde ind med endnu flere levedygtige iværksættere
CST together with the Electromagnec Systems group held a one day workshop dedicated to full-wave electromagnetic analysis using computer simulation technology. The workshop was designed to give antenna, EMC, microwave, and RF engineers an insight into the latest electromagnetic simulation technology for analysis and optimization of applications ranging from simple components to complex systems.
Among the participants were representatives from SONY Mobile, Procom, GN Resound, Widex, Global Lightning, and other companies.
Mr. Ick-Jae Yoon, Ph.D. has started by September 24, 2012 his Hans Christian Ørsted postdoc project with DTU Elektro’s Electromagnetic Systems (EMS) group. Ick Jae’s research will concern active wideband matching of electrically small antennas and electromagnetic energy harvesting; and it thus constitutes an extension of recent year’s activities in antenna miniaturization at EMS. Ick-Jae obtained his M.Sc.E.E. degree from Yonsei University, South Korea and his Ph.D. degree from University of Texas at Austin, USA in 2005 and 2012, respectively and has worked for 3 years with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea.
DTU Best PhD Dissertation of the Year Award 2012 for Ziwei Ouyang from the Electronics Group at DTU
Torsten Dau was nominated teacher of the semester (spring 2012 and June 2012) based upon the student evaluations received.
With a grant of DKK 36.5 million from the Oticon Foundation, DTU Hearing Systems Group can now found a new research centre with special focus on cross-disciplinary basic research in the audiological disciplines. In more popular terms, the different disciplines will meet to research the so-called 'cocktail party problem', or the noisy situations where people with a hearing impairment are especially challenged.
As one of just four exhibitions, our Center for Playware made the exhibition "Modular Change" at the Confederation of Danish Industry Business Summitt 2012, which gathered 800 top leaders from industry, politics, and embassies. With modular playware demonstrators, the exhibition showed how modularity can help develop flexible products that are easily reconfigurable and which engage the customers.
See a short video at: http://tv.di.dk/video/7075161
A new consortium agreement with the Danish hearing aid industry
Efren Fernandez Grande from our Acoustic Technology group has been granted with one of the individual post-doc grants by the Danish Council for Independent Research (Technology and production sciences - FTP), for a two year post-doctoral study.
Thursday June 7 2012 the minister for Climate, Energy and Building, Martin Lidegaard, and the mayor of Roskilde, Joy Mogensen, visited The NEVIC Centre at DTU Risø. Head of programme Anders Troi presented the NEVIC project to the visitors.
Kasper Fløng Pedersen, B.Eng and Niels Bo Hasselstrøm, B.Eng from DTU Elektro were each awarded the prestigious”E-kandidat” prize 2012 and 10.000 DKK for their outstanding diploma works.
Several members of CAHR will be presenting their work at the Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong conference. This conference, taking place from May 13-18, is a joint meeting of four societies: 163rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the 8th meeting of the of Acoustical Society of China, the 11th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, and the Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics.
When talkers speak, they also listen. Talkers routinely adapt to their interlocutors and environment, maintaining intelligibility and dialogue fluidity in a way that promotes efficient exchange of information. The Listening Talker Workshop held in Edinburgh from May 2-3 (http://listening-talker.org/workshop), brought together a wide range of researchers to address this multi-disciplinary topic. As part of the workshop, CAHR presented two posters and an invited talk.
Marton Marschall wins the Student Technical Paper Award at the Audio Engineering Society’s 132 Convention.
How essential are place and temporal fine-structure cues for high-frequency complex pitch?
In a talk at the New Ideas in Hearing 2012: Hot topics in Audiology (http://audition.ens.fr/newideas3/index.html), Sébastien Santurette presented a provocative answer to this question.
German students and professors from CAHR will be attending and presenting at the 38th Meeting of the German Acoustical Society (DAGA) in Darmstadt (www.daga2012.de) from Mar 19-22, 2012.
Two PhD positions are available at the Centre for Applied Hearing Research
CAHR will be well represented at this year's meeting being held in San Diego, CA, USA from Feb. 25-29. Several members from CAHR will be presenting their research on a wide range of topics:
As per 1st December 2011 Öncel Acar has joined Electromagnetic Systems as industrial PhD student in cooperation with MTI Radiocomp.
The titel is:"Methods of tuning the centre freguency and bandwidth in microwave high-Q filters for communication systems" and is supervised by Associate professor Tom Keinicke Johansen.
When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But new evidence shows that toddlers don't respond to their own voice in quite the same way, according to a report published online on December 22, 2011 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication by associate professor Ewen MacDonald, DTU Elektro.
Read the press release.
01.12.11
The Center for Playware have, as a co-applicant to Patient @ Home, been awarded funding by the Strategic Research Council for Technology and Innovation's SPIR program for research in welfare technology. The Center for Playware's role in the project will be to investigate the use of modular playware in rehabilitation. In addition to this, the Center for Playware will also collaborate with Prof. Ishiguro from Osaka University as an already existing cooperation between the two research groups, regarding the development of telenoids and social playware.
As per 1st November 2011 Rasmus Schandorph Michaelsen has joined Electromagnetic Systems as industrial PhD student in cooperation with Weibe Scientific A/S.
The titel is:"Custom-made MMIC receiver front-end for X-band radar with focus on low Phase and 1/f-noise" and is supervised by Associate professor Tom Keinicke Johansen.
Please find attached link to an article about soft robots mastering the limbo! David Johan Christensen, Assistant Professor at the Center for Playware is quoted.
For those who missed this exciting talk by one of the worlds top "Personal Robotics" pioneers, Steve Cousins of Willow Garage - we are happy to share with you this video of his presentation. Despite very short notice we were very pleased at the interest and the attendance at the talk and the following networking session. Thanks to those at Elektro who made Steve feel welcome and who helped make this a success.
Please find attached links to 2 articles from Videnskab.dk where David Johan Christensen from The Center for Playware is quoted.
The researchers love of electronics
The Danish Professor Henrik Hautop Lund is speading good robotics news in Africa and Svendborg. It is all about learning robots to understand people. And the other way around too!
Bogi Bech Jensen, Associate Professor in our Electric Components group was awarded Teacher of the Spring Semester 2011 based on students' valuations in his course "Electrical Machines in Wind Power Systems".
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