The Ambisonics Symposium 2009 has been a success! 
The Ambisonics Symposium was held  June 25-27, 2009 at the IEM in Graz, AUSTRIA [Symposium Flyer, pdf].
The symposium is dedicated to discussing the various problems and solutions concerning spherical sound field analysis and re-synthesis (Higher Order Ambisonics). Furthermore, strategies and  guidelines for the exchange and distribution of Ambisonics encoded material shall be discussed with a focus on potential standardisation.
SCOPE
 Contributions on the following topics are highly desirable:
- New Ambisonics playback strategies for sound scene reproduction
- Spherical microphone arrays
- Analysis and capture of directional sound sources
- Synthesis of directional and focused sound sources
- Virtual acoustics via headphones
- Standardisation, exchange, implementation and hardware issues
- Theoretical considerations on comparative subjective and objective studies
- Generalisation and theory
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| IMPORTANT DATES |  | deadlines | 
|  |  | was Feb 28th, 2009 
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Notification of Acceptance |  | was Mar. 8th, 200 
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|  |  | was May 18th, 2009 
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|  |  | was June 10th, 2009 
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Submission of Audio Material for Testing  
 |  | was June 17th, 2009 |