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. 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....
Chirag Gokani’s 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...
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...
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...
Cassidy Christie: Student Representative for Biomedical Acoustics
Cassidy Christie was elected to the ASA Student Council as the student representative for the Biomedical Acoustics Technical Committee! As a member of the Student Council, Cassidy will assist with planning student events at ASA meetings, connecting students through...
Congrats to Alicia on defending her dissertation!
Alicia Casacchia successfully defended her dissertation, "Advances in the acoustic characterization of materials via integration of collateral techniques," on April 10th, 2025. Congratulations, Alicia! Alicia's dissertation can be read here. Alicia holds a B.S. in...
Philip Kaufinger: Student Representative for Computational Acoustics
Philip Kaufinger was elected to the ASA Student Council as the student representative for the Computational Acoustics Technical Committee! As a member of the Student Council, Philip will assist with planning student-centered events at ASA meetings, connecting graduate...
McKinney Fellows Symposium 2024
Congratulations to the McKinney fellows who presented on their research as graduate students for the annual McKinney Fellows Symposium! The Chester M. McKinney Graduate Fellowship in Acoustics is awarded annually to one incoming student to the acoustics program,...