Topics at the symposium will be about architectural acoustics, immersive audio, spatial hearing and music information retrieval. Speakers include Mark Bocko and Zhiyao Duan, both professors of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester; and Hideo Miyazaki and Takayuki Watanable, both sound system and architectural acoustic experts from Yamaha Corp. Kyogu Lee, associate professor at Seoul National University and visiting professor at Boston University’s Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology