by utacoustics | Apr 18, 2026 | Graduate Skills, Meeting, Student Highlights
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...
by utacoustics | Mar 12, 2026 | Student Highlights
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...
by utacoustics | Mar 1, 2026 | Student 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...
by utacoustics | Feb 6, 2026 | Graduate Skills, Meeting, Student Highlights
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...
by utacoustics | Dec 12, 2025 | Student Highlights
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...
by utacoustics | Dec 10, 2025 | Student Highlights
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...
