From October 11th to 16th, 2015, the 12th International Conference on theoretical and Computational Acoustics was successfully held at theZhengzhengzhen Hotel in Zijin gang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou . The academic conference was organized by the famous American Chinese acoustician Li Ding, aims to promote the academic exchanges in the field of international acoustics and demonstrated the latest academic achievements in the field of international acoustics, which is one of the most influential and high-profile international conferences in the international acoustics community. The international conference was held for the first time in Connecticut in the United States in 1993. It is held every two years and is held on every continent. The conference was sponsored by theState Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems of Zhejiang University, the Joint Laboratory of Acoustics and Vibration of the Zhejiang University of Technology, and the Zhejiang Society of vibration Engineering. It was also funded by the Natural ScienceFoundation of Zhejiang Province and the Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology.
The chairman of the conference is Professor Wu Xiaofeng from Wayne StateUniversity. The co-chairman is Professor Chen Zichen and AcademicianYang Huayong from Zhejiang University. Ren Shaobo, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang University, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a welcome speech. There were 21 countries and regions from the United States, Germany, Russia, France, Britain, Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Serbia, Denmark, Poland, Australia, Israel, Turkey, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, India, China, Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong. More than 140 well-known acoustic scholars participated in the conference, including more than 50 foreign scholars. At this session, six well-known acoustic experts from home and abroad were invited to give six wonderful conference theme reports, and 26 group discussion reports on the theme of the conference "Acoustic Metamaterials", "Water Acoustic" and "Bionic Acoustics" were held. The conference organization was a complete success.
