GDR-AFPAC - The 6th Conference of the GDR 2501 Research on Ultrasound Propagation for NDT jointly with the 10th Anglo-French Physical Acoustics Conference.

The 10th Anglo-French Physical Acoustics Conference (AFPAC) will be held at the Castle Green Hotel, Kendal, Cumbria, UK between 18 - 22 January 2010. As usual this is organised by The Physical Acoustics Group of the IOP together with the French society GAPSUS. This year we are also pleased to be supported by Groupe de Recherche (GDR), a network of the French scientific agency CNRS now linked to the UK with EPSRC funding.

GDR is a research network, which has been running in France since January 2002, and whose purpose is to link university researchers in ultrasonic Non Destructive TEsting (NDT) with each other and with interested industrial organisations. AFPAC has a wider subject base, so this conference, combining GDR and AFPAC, seeks papers in any area of physical acoustics including, but not restricted to, the topic areas listed below.

There will be four invited speakers. Two of the confirmed invited speakers and agreed titles of their talks are:
- Dr Joel Gilbert (Le Mans University): Nonlinear acoustic propagation in horns - brass musical instruments as illustrations.
- Professor Peter Wells, CBE FRS FREng FMedSci (Cardiff University): Medical Ultrasound.