SAVE THE DATE: the next AFPAC will be held in Loire Valley (France) from 22 to 24 January 2025!

Registrations will open on September, 10th 2024!

Please note that the number of participants is limited for this edition. Please register as soon as possible.

The Anglo-French Physical Acoustics Conference (AFPAC) is organised by Le Groupe d'Acoustique Physique and the Sous-marine et UltraSonore (GAPSUS) of the Société Française d'Acoustique (SFA) and the IOP Physical Acoustics Group. AFPAC provides a forum in which the current research activity in physical acoustics, underwater acoustics and ultrasonics is reviewed. 

This year, the 23rd edition of AFPAC is organised by the GREMAN laboratory (INSA Centre Val de Loire, Université de Tours & CNRS) in the Loire Valley!

The scope for this conference is to encourage cross-fertilisation of ideas across different application areas in the field of physical acoustics. Topics include, but are not limited to: theoretical developments (all methods); experimental measurements; transduction; linear or nonlinear elastic or acoustic (bulk, surface, guided) wave radiation, propagation, scattering and reception; application to material characterisation, biomedical ultrasound, imaging (non-destructive testing, medical, underwater, seismology), SAW in electronic devices etc.

This conference will pay tribute to Thérèse Planiol, a pioneer of ultrasounds in Touraine, by organising a session on medical ultrasound, a gala dinner. These events will take place at the Château de Saint Senoch, where she used to live. 

AFPAC Student Competition with 200€ prize

Students (Master, Phd & Post-doctoral fellows) have an opportunity to enter a Graphical Abstract to promote their presentations. These will be displayed virtually during the conference and a cash prize will be awarded to the graphical abstract judged to be the best. Guidelines for the graphical abstract can be found here. Students must have an accepted abstract to submit a graphical abstract.
Please email submissions to thibaut.devaux@univ-tours.fr

Graphical Abstract Submission Deadline Friday 10 January 2025.  

Stefan CATHELINE, LabTAU, INSERM UMR 1032, University Lyon 1

Tony VALIER BRASIER, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Sorbonne University

Alan HUNTER, University of Bath 

Other invited speakers will be announced in autumn 2024.