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Home / Technical Council / Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture Series / HML Lecturers
| Year | Month | Day | # | City | State | Country | Heyser Lecture |
| 2026 | Oct. | 161st | Nashville | TC | USA | TBD | |
| 2026 | May | 28 | 160th | Copenhagen | Denmark | Dorte Hammershøi – From Head-Related Transfer Functions to Risk of Damage and Hearing Rehabilitation | |
| 2025 | Oct. | 24 | 159th | Long Beach | CA | USA | Sean Olive – Make Audio Great Always: Using Science for Consistent Quality |
| 2025 | May | 28 | 158th | Warsaw | Poland | Jüergen Herre – It’s All About Perception – A Personal Research Journey | |
| 2024 | Oct. | 9 | 157th | New York | NY | USA | Anthony Agnello & Richard Factor – Doohickii Digitali Redux |
| 2024 | June | 16 | 156th | Madrid | Spain | Xavier Serra – From Audio Processing to Music Understanding‚ a Research Journey | |
| 2023 | May | 14 | 154th | Helsinki | Finland | Jamie Angus-Whiteoak – The Ear is not a Fourier Transformer | |
| 2023 | Oct. | 26 | 155th | New York | NY | USA | Richard King – Sound and Enlightenment: A series of eye (and ear) opening events linking sound recording theory and practice |
| 2022 | May | 8 | 152nd | Den Haag | Netherlands | Diemer de Vries – Wave Field Synthesis – Just A Wave … or a Durable Synthesizer in the Audio Field? (Virtual) | |
| 2022 | Oct. | 19 | 153rd | New York | NY | USA | Gilbert Soulodre – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Heyser Lecture – The Twists and Turns of a Career in Audio |
| 2021 | May | 27 | 150th | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Diana Deutsch – Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch (Virtual) | |
| 2021 | Oct. | 22 | 151st | New York | NY | USA | John M. Chowning – Part 2: Implementing FM Sound Synthesis (Virtual) |
| 2020 | June | 2 | 148th | Vienna | Austria | Francis Rumsey – Sound Quality in the Era of Interaction and Extended Reality (Virtual) | |
| 2020 | Oct. | 27 | 149th | New York | NY | USA | John M. Chowning – Realizing a Dream, a Discovery and Lisajous Figures (Virtual) |
| 2019 | Mar. | 21 | 146th | Dublin | Ireland | David Griesinger – Learning to Listen | |
| 2019 | Oct. | 17 | 147th | New York | NY | USA | Louis Fielder – Psychoacoustics Applied to Dynamic-Range and Nonlinear-Distortion Assessment |
| 2018 | May | 24 | 144th | Milan | Italy | Malcolm Hawksford – Understanding high quality audio, a personal journey | |
| 2018 | Oct. | 19 | 145th | New York | NY | USA | John Meyer – Taking the Room Out of the Loudspeaker: New Tools for Transparent Reproduction |
| 2017 | May | 21 | 142nd | Berlin | Germany | Jorg Sennheiser – A historic journey in audio-reality: from mono to AMBEO | |
| 2017 | Oct. | 18 | 143rd | New York | NY | USA | Leslie Ann Jones – Paying Attention |
| 2016 | June | 4 | 140th | Paris | France | Rozenn Nicol – The Immersive Audio Revolution: From Labs to Mass-Market | |
| 2016 | Sept. | 29 | 141st | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Dave Smith – Synthesizers: From Analog to Digital to Software to Analog |
| 2015 | May | 9 | 138th | Warsaw | Poland | Ilpo Martikainen – Monitoring Loudspeakers, Can They Be Truthful Quality Control Tools? | |
| 2015 | Oct. | 29 | 139th | New York | NY | USA | Bruce Koenig – Acoustic Forensic Gunshot Analysis, The Kennedy Assassination and Beyond |
| 2014 | April | 26 | 136th | Berlin | Germany | Dietrich Schüller – Preserving our sound recordings – 25 years since everything changed | |
| 2014 | Oct. | 10 | 137th | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Marty O’Donnell – The Ear Doesnt Blink: Creating Culture With Adaptive Audio |
| 2013 | May | 4 | 134th | Rome | Italy | Wolfgang Klippel – Small, Loud-Speakers: Taking Physics to the Limit | |
| 2013 | Oct. | 17 | 135th | New York | NY | USA | George Massenburg – 4-44 & Me, Stagnation to Transformation: The Real Future of Music |
| 2012 | April | 28 | 132nd | Budapest | Hungary | Graham Blyth – In Pursuit of Elegant Simplicity: Life, Luck, and Learning in Music and Audio | |
| 2012 | Oct. | 27 | 133rd | San Francisco | CA | USA | James J. Johnston – Audio, Radio, Acoustics and Signal Processing‚ the Way Forward |
| 2011 | May | 14 | 130th | London | UK | Karlheinz Brandenburg – How to Provide High Quality Audio Everywhere | |
| 2011 | Oct. | 21 | 131st | New York | NY | USA | John Atkinson – Where Did the Negative Frequencies Go? |
| 2010 | May | 23 | 128th | London | UK | Brian C. J. Moore – Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids | |
| 2010 | Nov. | 5 | 129th | San Francisco | CA | USA | Ben Burtt – The Sound Behind The Image |
| 2009 | May | 7 | 126th | Munich | Germany | Gunnar Rasmussen – The Reproduction of Sound Starts at the Microphone | |
| 2009 | Oct. | 11 | 127th | New York | NY | USA | Phil Ramone – Technology and Music Meet Again |
| 2008 | May | 18 | 124th | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Guus Berkhout – The Big Challenges in Audio, a glance into the future | |
| 2008 | Oct. | 3 | 125th | San Francisco | CA | USA | Floyd Toole – Sound Reproduction: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go |
| 2007 | May | 6 | 122nd | Vienna | Austria | Gerhard Steinke – What is needed to have the Audio-Eldorado at home? | |
| 2007 | Oct. | 6 | 123rd | New York | NY | USA | Leo Beranek – Aspects Of Concert Hall Acoustics |
| 2006 | May | 21 | 120th | Paris | France | Jim Flanagan – Spatially-Selective Sound Capture | |
| 2006 | Oct. | 6 | 121st | San Francisco | CA | USA | Julius O. Smith III – History and Practice in Digital Sound Synthesis |
| 2005 | May | 29 | 118th | Barcelona | Spain | Stanley P. Lipshitz – The Rise of Digital Audio: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | |
| 2005 | Oct. | 8 | 119th | New York | NY | USA | Jozef J. Zwislocki – Sound Transmission and Analysis in the Ear – Recent Insights |
| 2004 | May | 9 | 116th | Berlin | Germany | Kees A. Schouhamer Immink – From Analog to Digital | |
| 2004 | Oct. | 30 | 117th | San Francisco | CA | USA | Walter Murch – Edison’s First Sound Film and the Three Fathers of Cinema |
| 2003 | Mar. | 23 | 114th | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Jens Blauert – Communication Acoustics: Audio Goes Cognitive | |
| 2003 | Oct. | 11 | 115th | New York | NY | USA | Ray Kurzweil – The Future of Music in the Age of Spiritual Machines |
| 2002 | May | 11 | 112th | Munich | Germany | Jim West – Modern Electret Microphones and Their Applications | |
| 2002 | Oct. | 7 | 113th | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Ray Dolby – Some Musings on Progress in Audio: A Quest for Better Sound at Affordable Prices |
| 2001 | May | 13 | 110th | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Manfred Schroeder – The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Audio | |
| 2001 | Dec. | 2 | 111th | New York | NY | USA | Per Bruel – Acoustics in Small Studios |
| 2000 | Feb. | 21 | 108th | Paris | France | James A. Moorer – Audio in the New Millennium | |
| 2000 | Sept. | 24 | 109th | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Alan Kay – The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet |
| 1999 | Sept. | 25 | 107th | New York | NY | USA | Roger Lagadec – Digital Audio and the Challenge of the Internet |
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