ABOUT THE LECTURE:

June 18, 2007, 10:00 to 12:00 noon
Mumford Room, 6th floor James Madison Building

Four years ago, the Preservation Directorate initiated collaboration with Dr. Carl H. Haber to capture sound from damaged phonographs, and similar 2 D grooved recordings, by developing a device to image groove configurations. The prototype device, the "I.R.E.N.E. Machine," has now been delivered and installed at LC for fidelity evaluation by two Library Divisions: Preservation Research and Testing, and Motion Picture, Broadcast and Recorded Sound. Dr. Haber will discuss the status of the I.R.E.N.E. project, as well as future plans to develop a second device for high resolution surface profiling of 3 D grooved media, such as wax cylinders.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Carl Haber is an experimental physicist. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University and is a Senior Scientist in the Physics Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California. Most of his research interest involves the development of instrumentation and methods for detecting and measuring particles created at high energy colliders such as the facility at Fermilab near Chicago. These interests have also led him, and his colleagues, to apply techniques in use in this research to the topic of sound restoration. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

For more information : http://www-cdf.lbl.gov/~av/