Announcements
Dr. Ben Goldsberry’s Grad Skills Seminar on COMSOL
Dr. Ben Goldsberry gave a graduate skills seminar on COMSOL Multiphysics, a commercially available finite-element solver, at the Student Chapter meeting on Friday, April 17th, 2026. Dr. Goldsberry used the example of acoustic scattering from a cylindrical shell in water to demonstrate the basic...
Congrats to Chirag Gokani on defending his dissertation!
Huge congratulations to Chirag Gokani on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation! This is a tremendous achievement, and we are so proud to celebrate this milestone with him. Dissertation: Scattering and Diffraction of Acoustic Waves in Three Problems with Broken Symmetry Ph.D....
ASA Girl Day 2026 Highlights
Thank you for making STEM Girl Day 2026 a success! UT STEM Girl Day is the biggest outreach event at UT Austin, and the UT Austin ASA student chapter was thrilled to participate in it, as they have for several years. This year was special because we celebrated 25 years of STEM Girl Day at UT. As...
Grad Skills Seminar on Differential Operators in Curvilinear Coordinates
Chirag Gokani presented a Grad Skills seminar on differential operators in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates on Friday, February 6th, 2026. Chirag derived ∇, ∇·, and ∇2 in cylindrical and spherical coordinates, and students followed along on a guided worksheet.
Chirag Gokani selected as the next Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellow
We are thrilled to announce that Chirag Gokani, a last-year PhD candidate, has been selected as the next recipient of the Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics for 2026-2027, beginning after his graduation next summer. After graduation, he will work with Prof. Likun Zhang...
ASA Honolulu Recap
Several students from the Austin ASA recently attended the 189th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Honolulu. Below are abstracts on which students and recent alumni of our Chapter are co-authors: Presenter Abstract title William A. WillisArchitecture and training constraints for deep...
Dr. William Willis’s Grad Skills Seminar on Machine Learning for acoustics
Dr. William Willis gave a graduate skills seminar on machine learning at the Student Chapter meeting on Friday, November 14th, 2025. Dr. Willis discussed how to use MATLAB's Deep Learning and Statistics and Machine Learning toolboxes to perform regressions on data. Many current graduate students...
Grad Skills Seminar on LaTeX
Fifth-year PhD student and doctoral candidate Chirag Gokani presented a Grad Skills Seminar on LaTeX at the Student Chapter meeting on Friday, October 24th, 2025. LaTeX is a popular software for typesetting technical documents. The seminar was a continuation of an introductory LaTeX Grad Skills...
Philip Kaufinger’s Grad Skills Seminar on Inkscape
Fourth-year PhD student and doctoral candidate Philip Kaufinger presented a Grad Skills Seminar on Inkscape, a graphic design tool for technical writing, at the Student Chapter meeting on Friday, September 19th, 2025. Philip demonstrated how to draw shapes, insert LaTeX equations, format plots,...
McKinney Fellows Symposium 2025
The McKinney Fellows presented on their research at the McKinney Fellows Symposium held in the D. T. Blackstock Auditorium at the Applied Research Laboratories on Thursday, September 18th, 2025. The current McKinney Fellows are (from left to right in the picture below) Anika Cho, Cassidy Christie,...
WiSTEM outreach event
Doctoral students Cassidy Christie and Chirag Gokani organized an acoustics workshop on June 5th, 2025, for high-school students participating in the day camp "STEM in Art and Sound" organized by Women in STEM (WiSTEM) at UT Austin. The workshop consisted of an introductory acoustics lecture, a...
ASA New Orleans Recap
Several students from the Austin ASA recently attended the 188th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in New Orleans. Below are abstracts presented by students associated with our Chapter: Student presenter Abstract title Blaine GilbertCoupled-mode theory for guided acoustic waves with...