Urban Sound Symposium 2025, 28-30th April
Empa, the Swiss Federal Institute of Material Sciences and Technology, Dübendorf, Greater Zürich Area
Zürich
Welcome!
Following the successful first three Urban Sound Symposia held in 2019, 2021 and 2023, the fourth edition in 2025 will be locally organized in the greater Zürich area by researchers at Empa, the Swiss Federal Institute of Material Sciences and Technology. Empa is an applied research institute in the ETH domain. The symposium will present newest developments, challenges and opportunities for urban sound. This will be essentially a hybrid symposium, held both in person and online.
Selected, international expert speakers will be invited to the conference by the organizing committee. Researchers interested in contributing to the conference are welcome to submit their posters or demonstrations and corresponding abstracts until December 31st, 2024 via our Urban Sound Symposium Zenodo community.
Topics
The Urban Sound Symposium is a conference dedicated to the challenges of sound and noise in urban environments. The main themes are urban sound planning and design, urban sound propagation and control, urban soundscape analysis and noise policy issues. It addresses an interdisciplinary audience of acousticians, architects and planners to discuss scientific findings as well as target-oriented mitigation concepts. The conference aims at fostering the exchange of practitioners and experts from around the globe that are confronted with urban sound in their professional activities.
Abstracts
Abstract submission will be handled via Zenodo. Please note that all abstracts will undergo a light review process. Notifications for abstract approval or any edit requests will be sent and handled over Zenodo, so please make sure to regularly check your dashboard for updates. We have created a specific USS2025 community on Zenodo for that purpose. All uploaded abstracts will obtain a DOI and will be aggregated to a conference proceedings booklet after the conference.
Template and upload process
For the sake of uniformity, we ask that you use the abstract template provided and follow the layout guidelines. Once you have created your abstract, please upload it to our Zenodo community, following our step-by-step instructions. If you have not used Zenodo before, please make sure to first register with an account. You can update your file and meta information once you have submitted for review. Please note that this will no longer be possible after the abstract submission deadline: December 31st, 2024. After the conference, speakers can optionally upload their slides by adding a new version to their existing Zenodo record.
Posters/demonstrations
Participants interested in presenting a poster/demonstration must submit an abstract, following the specified instructions. The required format for posters is A0 portrait and participants are encouraged to include the USS 2025 logo, which can be downloaded here. Please note that on-site printing is not possible.
After the conference, poster/demonstration presenters can upload their actual posters/material via the Zenodo community by adding a new version to the existing Zenodo record.
