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Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in

XXVIII Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering IAB 2026

which will take place from 21st to 24th of April 2026 in Hyrny Hotel in Zakopane.

Organizers:

Polish Acoustic Society - Krakow Division

Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics AGH

Polish Academy of Sciences - Board of Acoustics

Conference is held under the honorary patronage of the Dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics of the AGH University of Krakow.

Supporting us:

The conference received financial support from the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) and the Committee on International Research and Education of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA/CIRE).

Sponsors:

Organizing committee

Chairman: Marek PLUTA

Members:

Bartłomiej CHOJNACKI
Ireneusz CZAJKA
Karol CZESAK
Michał GURGUL
Janusz PIECHOWICZ
Adam PILCH
Bartłomiej STĘPIEŃ
Katarzyna SUDER-DĘBSKA
Tadeusz WSZOŁEK

Scientific committee

Chair: dr hab. inż. Janusz PIECHOWICZ, prof. AGH

Important dates

Deadline for paper submission: until 24th of March 2026.

Deadline for student paper submission: until 24th of March 2026.

Deadline for registration without a paper: until 7th of April 2026.

Deadline for payment of participation fees: until 7th of April 2026.

Deadline for sending full text of the article for journal: until 12th of April 2026.

Publication

Abstracts are submitted via the registration form and will be published in the conference materials.

Authors of papers have the option to submit materials in the form of full text in English for publication in the journal Vibrations in Physical Systems (VPS). Please select the appropriate option in the registration form. Publication in the journal is subject to an additional fee, payable after receiving positive reviews.
Author guidelines for publication in VPS

Please send your articles to sekretariat(at)ptakrakow.pl according to the instructions available in the registration form.

Venue

Hyrny Hotel

Address:

ul. Piłsudskiego 20

34-500 Zakopane

Phone number:

+48 18 201 55 75

+48 662 067 923

E-mail: recepcja (at) doms.com.pl

WWW: hyrny.pl

Structural sections

Vibroacoustics
Building and architectural acoustics
Physical acoustics
Musical acoustics, speech acoustics and psychoacoustics
Vibroacoustic metrology and signal processing
Vibroacoustic diagnostics
Electroacoustics and room acoustics
Environmental acoustics and the fight against noise
Biomedical acoustics

Registration

Before registering to conference please read rules for the processing of personal data

Comments:

please register separately for each conference participant (according to the instructions in the registration form)
submitting a speech/paper is considered as the registration only for the person indicated in the registration form as primary contact
other co-authors of the submitted speech/paper are not automatically registered as conference participants
if co-authors not indicated as primary contact plan to attend the conference, they should register separately, without re-entering the speech/paper data submitted by primary contact

To register, please fill out and submit the form available at this link.

Please send articles to sekretariat(at)ptakrakow.pl according to the instructions in the header of the registration form. Templates are available in the Publication section.

Conference fee

Payment until 7th of April 2026

PTA members: 2500 PLN

First and second cycle students (full participation): 2500 PLN

First and second cycle students (partial: from Tuesday to Wednesday, inclusive, with dinner and competition participation): 900 PLN

Other participants: 2600 PLN

Accompanying person: 2400 PLN

Extra payment for a single room: 300 PLN

Publication of an article in the Vibrations in Physical Systems (ISSN 0860-6897): 800 PLN, payment after your paper is accepted by reviewers.

Payment details:

PTA o. Kraków

83 1020 2892 0000 5102 0189 2546 (PKO Bank Polski S.A.)

In transfer description please provide: IAB2026 – name and surname of the participant.

Program and announcements

Announcement 1

Competition

Władysław Bogusz Student Competition

The Competition is open to first and second cycle students who take up the subject of acoustic and biomedical engineering.

Detailed rules of the Competition

In order to apply for the competition, you must register an abstract in Polish and English and an article, in accordance with the competition rules, not exceeding the deadlines set in the "important dates" section. The article can be submitted either in Polish (4-8 pages) to the conference materials, according to the template below, or to a journal, according to the guidelines provided in the "publication" section.

Form for student articles:

Articles (in tex+pdf or doc/docx+pdf format) should be sent to sekretariat(at)ptakrakow.pl.

Competition of the Krakow Division of the PTA - Student Grant for participation in the IAB2026 Conference

Krakow Division of the PTA is organizing a competition for students, the prize of which is the coverage of the student conference fee for participation in the Władysław Bogusz Student Competition.

Detailed rules of the Student Grant Competition

Please send all questions related to the competition to Bartłomiej Chojnacki, e-mail: bchojnacki (at) agh.edu.pl

The organizers reserve the right to cancel the competition in the event of a small number of applications.

History

XXVII Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering April 8-11 2025

XXVI Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering March 19-22 2024

XXV Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering March 28-31 2023

XXIV Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering (an accompanying event to the LXVII Open Seminar on Acoustics) September 14-17 2021

XXIII Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering, April 9-12, 2019

XXII Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering, April 10-13, 2018

XXI Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering, June 08-10, 2016

XIX Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering, March 12-16, 2012

XVIII Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering, March 28 - April 01, 2011

XVII Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering, March 22-26, 2010

XVI Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering, March 30 - April 03, 2009

XV Conference on Acoustic and Biomedical Engineering, April 14-18, 2008

Contact

Polish Acoustical Society

Krakow Division

Al. Mickiewicza 30

30-059 Kraków

e-mail: pluta (at) agh.edu.pl, sekretariat (at) ptakrakow.pl