Physical Acoustics: Fundamentals and Applications

Section I: Invited Papers.- The Role of Surface Acoustic Waves in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy.- Ultrasonic Waves in Monodimensional Periodical Composites.- What To Do When Your World Turns Nonlinear.- Thermal Waves for Material Inspection.- Ultrasonic Backscattering: Fundamentals and Applications.- Lasers in Acoustics.- Optical Generation and Detection of Ultrasound.- Acousto-Optical Interaction in a Medium with Regulated Anisotropy.- Surface and Subsurface Waves for Characterization of Weakly and Highly Anisotropic Materials.- Complex Harmonic Plane Waves.- Use of Short Pulses and Ultrasonic Spectroscopy in Scattering Studies.- Optical Nearfield of Ultrasonic Light Diffraction.- Resonance Scattering Spectroscopy by the M.I.I.R.- Reflection and Refraction of Heterogeneous Waves at Plane Interfaces.- Modulation Effects in Light Diffraction by Two Ultrasonic Beams and Applications in Signal Processing.- Photoacoustics Applied to Liquid Crystals.- Recent Development of Ultrasonic Motors.- Section II: COMMUNICATIONS and POSTERS.- Photoacoustic and Photothermal Characterization of Amorphous Semiconductors Thin Films.- Two-Beam Bragg Diffraction.- High-Frequency Modulation of the White Light with Acoustooptic Modulator.- Leaky Waves in Solid-Liquid-Solid Systems. Acoustoelectronic Microanalysis of Viscous-Elastic Properties for Liquids of Biological Nature.- Acoustic Wave Propagation in Media Containing Two-Dimensional Periodically Spaced Elastic Inclusions.- Scattering of Shear Horizontal Waves by Massive Metallic Electrodes in SAW Devices.- Acoustooptic Interaction Application to Optical Wavefront Analysis.- Determination of Parameters for the Simulation of Surface Acoustic Wave Devices with Finite Elements.- Analysis of the Nearfield of Laser Light Diffracted by a Plane Ultrasonic Wave.- Magnetoelastic Mode Effect on Spin-Wave Instability Threshold.- Methods of Acoustic Microscopy in Investigation of High-Temperature Superconductors.- On the Extension of Horn Theory to Non-Uniform Visco-Elastic Rods.- Enhanced Propagation in a Foamy Medium.- Analysis of Surface Acoustic Wave in Layered Structure with Periodic Delamination.- Surface Acoustic Wave Scattering by Elliptic Metal Disk on Anisotropic Piezoelectric Halfspace.- Optical Detection and Analysis of Non-Linear Optoacoustic Waves.- Experimental Study of Guided Waves Propagating at the Interface Between a Fluid Cylinder and a Liquid Medium.- Surface Acoustic Wave Reception by an Interdigital Transducer.- Underwater Sound Scattering by Surface Gravity Waves.- Finite Amplitude Acoustic Waves Radiating from a Non-Resonant Vibrating Plate.- Scholte-Stoneley Waves in a Multilayered Medium with Elastic Bond Conditions at an Interface.- Sound Intensification in Foam.- The Influence of Heat Transfer and Liquid Flow on Sound Propagation in Foam.- The Peculiarity of Non-Linear Waves Evolution in Bubbly Liquids.- Boundary Element Method Analysis of Surface Acoustic Wave Devices.- Application of the Finite Element Method to Analyze the Scattering of a Plane Acoustic Wave from Doubly Periodic Structures.- Sound Propagation in Glass-Ceramic.- Visualization of the Resonances of a Fluid-Filled Cylindrical Shell Using a Low Frequency Schlieren System.- Light Scattering on Magnetostatic Waves in Thin-Film Gyrotropic Waveguide.- Rayleigh Wave Tomography.- Optical Interferometric Detection of Plate Waves on Circular Piezoelectric Transducers.- Experimental Study of Reflected Beam Profile by Two-Layer Plate Systems Immersed in Water.- Study of Phase Transitions by Frequency Dependent Photoacoustic Measurements.- Multichannel Acoustooptical Modulators and their Applications in the Devices of Signal Processing.- An Acoustic Ray Analysis of Wave Dispersion in Layered Structures.- The Angular Resolution of Acousto-Optical Lamb Mode Detection.- Inhomogeneous Plane Waves in Layered Media.- Depth Profiling by Fourier Analysis of Photoacoustic Signals.- A New Method for the Detection of Viscoelastic So