A Best Paper Award competition has been organized by each Technical Committee of Acoustics’08 Paris.

And the winners are:

• Animal Bioacoustics
  • 1st (lecture): Yossi Yovel (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen,  Germany)
  • 1st (poster): Joseph Jackson (University of Bristol, UK)
•  Acoustical Oceanography
  • 1st (poster): Paul Roberts (University of California, San Diego)
  • 2nd (poster): Aleksandra Kruss (IOPAN, Poland)
  • 1st (lecture): Meghan Ballard (Pennsylvania State University)
  • 2nd (lecture): David Barclay (University of California, San Diego)
• Architectural Acoustics
  
  • 1st: Anne Guthrie (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
  • 2nd: Yun Jing (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Biomedical/Bioresponse
  • 1st: Moire Smith (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)
  • 2nd: Todd Hay (University of Texas)
  • 3rd: Dorothée Bossis (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

• Engineering Acoustics

• 1st: Thierry Le Van Suu (Université du Maine, France)
• 2nd: Cyril Meynier (Vermon SA, France)

• Musical Acoustics

• 1st: Jer-Ming Chen (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
• 2nd: Edgar Berdahl (Stanford University)

• Noise

• Sarah Gourlie (The University of Texas at Austin)
• Brice Lafon (Renault, Malmaison, France)
• Sarah R. Payne (The University of Manchester, UK)

• Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

• 1st: Marion Cousineau (Université Paris Descartes, France)
• 2nd: Jayaganesh Swaminathan (Purdue University)

• Signal Processing

• Best Paper (lecture) : Alexandre Aubry LOA, ESPCI, Paris, France
• Best Paper (poster); Zachary Waters Boston University, USA
• Speech Communication
  • 1st: Carolyn McGettigan (University College London)
  • 2nd: Thomas Hueber ( ESPCI - Telecom Paris, France)
• Structural Acoustics and Vibration
  • First: René Christensen (Oticon, Denmark)
  • Second (tie): Daniele Moreau (University of Adelaide); Kerem Ege (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
• Underwater Acoustics
  • 1st: Zachary J. Waters (Boston University)
  • 2nd: Jon La Follett (Washington State University)