International commission for acoutics

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ACOUTICS

Unconfirmed Minutes of the Board meetings

held on 2001 September 2 and 8 in Rome

Part A – 2001 September 2

1. Opening and approval of the Agenda

President Crum opens the meeting at 8:10 am in the Board Room of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome with a roll call.
Present were:

Lawrence Crum, President

Gilles Daigle, Secretary General

Volker Mellert, Treasurer

Hideki Tachibana

Ren-He Zhang

Claude Legros

Giovanni Brambilla

Nikolai A. Dubrovsky (rep. Alexei Nikiforov)

Philip Nelson

Tor Kihlman, Past President

Charles Don

Samir Gerges

Suk Wang Yoon

Juan Gallego-Juarez

Stephen Crandall

Adriano Alippi

Adrianus Houtsma (rep. Jens Blauert)

Regrets were received from Alexei Nikiforov, Shyam Agrawal, Jens Blauert, and Anders Bostrom.
Also present at the meeting was Sonoko Kuwano representing the 18^th ICA in Kyoto and Lev Nikitin representing the Russian proposal to host the 19^th ICA..
The Agenda is approved.

AGENDA

1. 
   Opening and approval of the Agenda
   
2. 
   Announcements
   
3. 
   Minutes of the AC3 meeting held in Nice
   
4. 
   Report of the IUPAP Council and Commission Chairs meeting (Beijing)
   
5. 
   Report of Treasurer: Financial Report; Member Dues Status; Travel Expenses
   
6. 
   Commission Membership
   
7. 
   Appointment of IUTAM Representative to the Board of ICA
   
8. 
   IUPAP/IUTAM sponsorship of conferences
   
9. 
   ICA support and sponsorship of regional meetings
   
10. 
    Report of Ad Hoc Committee on Conference Grants
    
11. 
    Research Awards
    
12. 
    ICA web page: Domain Name Registration
    
13. 
    ICA 17, Rome 2001. Report
    
14. 
    ICA 18, Kyoto 2004. Report
    
15. 
    ICA 19, Presentations of proposals (1:30 – 2:30 pm):
    
    1. 
       Societe Française d'Acoustique (Paris)
       
    2. 
       East-European Acoustical Association (St. Petersburg)
       
    3. 
       UK Institute of Acoustics (Edinburgh)
       
    4. 
       Sociedad Espanola de Acustica (Madrid)
       
16. 
    Other business
    
17. 
    Next meeting
    
18. 
    Close of the meeting