Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg is German electrical engineer and mathematician who is a world-renowned figure in the fields of digital audio and computer science.   His 1989 dissertation on audio coding and perceptual measurement techniques forms the basis of MP3 and AAC audio encoding schemes which have transformed the music industry.  Prior to joining the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen as head of the Audio/Multimedia department in 1993, he worked with AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S. on ASPEC and MPEG-1 Layer 3.   Since 2000, he has been full professor at the Institute for Media Technology at Technical University of Ilmenau.   He is a Fellow of both IEEE and the Audio Engineering Society, and is the recipient of awards so numerous that we present only a small fraction here: Internet Hall of Fame, IEEE Consumer Electronics Award, Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, IEEE Engineering Excellence Award, and several awards from the Audio Engineering Society.  He has been granted at least 27 US patents as a co-inventor.  Belmont is honored and pleased to host so distinguished a speaker, whose areas of research touch on fields as diverse as music business, computer science and physics.