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October 20th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
Modeling what happens under a microscope
A group from Mississippi State University and Oak Ridge National Lab investigated the growth of dendrites using two different models. M. A. Zaeem, H. Yin, and S. D. Felicelli compared both a Cellular Automaton Model and a Phase-Field Model, together with a Finite-Element Model, to model dendritic growth in an aluminum and magnesium alloy. This won them one of the Best Poster awards, as judged by two of the members of the Program Committee.
Read more on: Best Poster Winner – No. 1.
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October 19th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
Heat Transfer also plays a part in lab on chip
The Program Committee actually has quite a bit of work to do in a COMSOL Conference. Not only are they required to review papers that touch on their area of expertise, but for most of them who attend, they are also Session Chairs. As our experts, it is their duty to judge the best papers.
Read more on: Best Paper Winner – No. 1.
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October 17th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
It’s all over and I’m more energized than tired. It was such a trip meeting some many users, and having so many COMSOL staff working together to make this huge event such a great experience.
Read more on: What a Great Conference!
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October 12th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
Hi,
Now it’s really buzzing around the COMSOL office in Burlington. Quite a number of our colleagues from the Palo Alto and Los Angeles offices have shown up to help out with the preparations. Soon, a whole gang of them will be off to the hotel to get everything ready, the registration desks, the demo stations, putting up all the posters, the auditoriums….
Read more on: Tomorrow it’s all Happening
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October 11th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
The COMSOL Conference is the year’s premier event for COMSOL Multiphysics users and people interested in simulations. The program is packed with user presentations and posters, hands-on minicourses and networking opportunities. But it is not all brought to you by COMSOL alone.
Read more on: COMSOL Conferences are brought to you by more than just COMSOL
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October 7th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
Just a couple of days ago we got word of the winners from NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest. The Grand Prize winner was Monika Weber and a team (Christopher Yerino, Hazael Montanaro, Kane Siu Lung Lo, and Mark Reed) from Yale University.
Read more on: NASA Tech Briefs Grand Prize Winner will Show up
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October 6th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
There are some great Keynote presentations being given during the conference. Dawn Bernardi kicks it all off by presenting her work and Ford’s project for greener vehicles. She develops mathematical models that predict system behavior, and her presentation will be specific to lithium-ion batteries.
Read more on: The Keynotes will Show COMSOL Multiphysics’ Progress
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October 6th, 2011 by
Brian Kenyon
"Create the Future" Design Contest (www.createthefuture2011.com) sponsored by PTC® (www.ptc.com), COMSOL (www.comsol.com), and Tech Briefs Media attracts over 900 innovative product ideas from engineers and students in 50 countries.
New York, NY – A new invention could protect millions from contracting food-borne illnesses. The αScreen is a portable, rapid pathogen screener that could allow screening of up to 100% of food produced in processing plants, before it is delivered to the consumer. αScreen is highly accurate, can detect as low as a single bacteria, and is approximately 50 times less expensive than the established, currently used detection methods.
http://contest.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/1896
Read more on: Breakthrough in Preventing Food-borne Illnesses Wins $20,000 Grand Prize in Global Design Contest
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October 5th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
The conference User Presentation Breakout Sessions are being run between 5:00 and 6:30 pm on Thursday and 1:30 and 3:00 pm on Friday. Each Session will consist of nine parallel topic sessions, so make sure you prepare and choose wisely if you want to be hopping from one to the other.
Read more on: Many Sessions, so choose wisely
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October 4th, 2011 by
Phil Kinnane
Hi there,
Just looking through the Proceedings CD, I say that there are so many different topics and areas of research that it must be a daunting task to review them all. But through the diligent effort of the Program Chair, Yeswanth, he was able to get twenty experts within different areas to become members of the Program Committee. In fact, almost everyone he asked was willing to participate.
Read more on: The Program Committee has done a Wonderful Job