Travel Funding
Attending a conference is a great way to get your new research out to the community, get inspiration from other research being done at different institutions, and make professional connections that can boost your career prospects. However, the cost of traveling can be quite high, so this week we will be discussing various grant opportunities for travel that can be used to offset or completely cover travel expenses. We will cover a number of funding opportunities available to graduate students in acoustics, including grants from the Acoustical Society of America and UT Austin.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...