Thank You for Attending COMSOL Conference 2008
This page presents a review and some photos about the events that took place at the COMSOL Conference 2008 at the Boston Renaissance Hotel from October 9th - 11th. We would like to extend our gratitude to each and everyone of the attendees whose contributions were indispensible in making this conference a great success.
Highlights from the Conference
Key Notes
Paper Presentations and Poster Session
Mini-Courses, Tutorials and Exhibition
Best Paper and Best Poster Awards
Most Innovative Paper
Electro-Thermal Modelling of High Power Light Emitting Diodes Based on Experimental Device Characterization
T. Lopez1, T. Margaliths2
1Philips Research, Aachen, Germany
2Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, San Jose, CA, USA
COMSOL Award for a Greener Tomorrow
High-Temperature Sodium|Metal Chloride Storage Battery
M. A. Vallance1, R. E. White2
1General Electric Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, USA
2Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
Best Academic Paper Awards
A Finite Element Analysis on the Modeling of Heat Release Rate, as Assessed by a Cone Calorimeter, of Char Forming Polycarbonate
D. Statler Jr.1, R. Gupta2
1Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research and Innovation Center, South Charleston, WV, USA
2Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
A Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown (TDDB) Model for Field Accelerated Low-K Breakdown due to Copper Ions
R.S. Achanta, J.L. Plawsky, W.N. Gill
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Best Poster Awards
Use of COMSOL Multiphysics to develop a comprehensive, user-friendly predictive tool for food safety and quality
A. Halder1, A. Datta1, G. Black2, P.M. Davidson2
1Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
2Department of Food Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Electrical Stimulation of Brain using a realistic Human Head Model
A. Datta, M. Elwassif, M. Bikson
Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of the CUNY, New York, NY, USA
Modeling the Staggered Herringbone Mixer
Manda Williams
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
All the papers presented at the conference
are available on the Proceedings CD given to the
attendees during the conference.
A worldwide CD will be available in December with
presentations from all the conferences.
Request a free copy here
Attendees express their views about the conference
I learnt many new things concerning COMSOL powerful software and the way other people solve their own problems. It is always enriching to meet so many intelligent people doing so different things with partial differential equations.
- Mario-Cesar Suarez A.
Michoacan University
The ability to network with others and to learn more about how to use the software via the minicourses
-Sven Bilén
Penn State University
Opportunity to network with other users potential clients. User and keynote presentations provide much food for thought. Tips and tricks and parallel processing tutorials.
-Ronald Gamache
TransTech Systems, Inc.
Seeing the variety of problems people have tackled and trying to learn something from their approaches. The opportunity to ask specific questions and discuss issues with other users was also enjoyable.
-Jarrod Schiffbauer
West Virginia University