Keynote Speakers
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John TanskiStaff Engineer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Tanski received his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from the
Colorado School of Mines in 1984. He worked for the Inland Steel Company in
the Research and Development Department where his focus was on modeling
processes and operations in Primary Metal Production Facilities. In 1993,
he joined LANL and has worked on a number of projects including process
analysis of steel operations, multiphase flow modeling, and is currently
working on modeling material aging in strategic systems.
A Survey of Multiphysics Applications for Materials and Processes |
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Svante LittmarckPresident and CEO, COMSOL, Inc.
Svante Littmarck is the President and CEO of COMSOL, Inc. He co-founded the COMSOL group in 1986. In 2004, Littmarck received an honorary doctoral degree from the Royal Institute of Technology for the development and international reach of high-quality software for scientific computations through his company COMSOL.
Multiphysics 2008 |
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Claudio ParazzoliBoeing Technical Fellow, Boeing Phantom Works
Dr. Claudio Parazzoli is a Boeing Technical Fellow in the Boeing
Phantom Works research division. He received his Ph.D. in Plasma
Physics from MIT in 1972. Dr Parazzoli has an extensive background in laser physics, free electron lasers, physical optics, and electromagnetics. He has developed many large numerical codes in these areas. His current interests are in Negative Index Materials, direct thermal to electrical energy conversion and Quantum Optics.
He has more than 40 publications in journals, books and conference papers.
Multiphysics Application at Boeing - Phantom Works |
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Darrell PepperProfessor of Mechanical EngineeringDirector of the Nevada Center for Advanced Computational Methods (NCACM) University of Nevada Las Vegas
Darrell Pepper is presently Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Nevada Center for Advanced Computational
Methods (NCACM) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). In 2004 he was appointed an ASME Congressional Fellow and handled
science and engineering issues. Dr. Pepper is also Executive Vice President of Nevada Energy and Environmental Systems. He has
published over 200 technical papers on fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and environmental transport topics, and co-authored five
textbooks on the finite element method, boundary element method, and indoor air quality.
Benchmarking COMSOL Multiphysics 3.4 |
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Jim KnoxTechnical Manager, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Jim Knox is the technical manager of the Sorbent-Based Atmosphere Revitalization project, developing CO2 and H2O removal systems for the manned missions of NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration. Jim has over 20 years experience from R&D work within the aerospace industry. Presently his focus is on the development of an adsorption
apparatus with recuperative heating for the venting of metabolic carbon dioxide and water to space.
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Ronald GamacheDirector of R&D Programs, TransTech Systems, Inc
Mr. Ronald Gamache is Director of R&D Programs with TransTech Systems, Inc. Mr. Gamache holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and did graduate work in Electrical Systems Engineering. He has over thirty-five years experience in advanced sensing, measurement and control technologies. At TransTech, he is responsible for development of electromagnetic sensing solutions to material characterization problems.
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Lars LangemyrVP of Development, COMSOL AB
Lars Langemyr holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), where his research focused on computational complexity in computer algebra. He joined COMSOL in 1991 where he first led the development of the PDE Toolbox and now focuses on the development of the COMSOL Multiphysics modeling and simulation environment, which was first released in 1998.
The COMSOL Roadmap |
Moderators
Steven ConradLSU
Bioengineering
Markus ZahnMIT
Electromagnetic Design and Modeling
Kyle KoppenhoeferACES
Acoustics, Heat Transfer & Structural Analysis
Dan SmithCOMSOL Inc.
CFD
Carl MeinhartUniversity of California Santa Barbara
MEMS and Microfluidics
Yan-Ming LiOsram Sylvania
Chemical Engineering
Jason McKennaU.S. Army Engineering R&D Center
Earth Science and Porous Media Flow
Joseph PrambergerNASA Tech Briefs
Multiphysics
Dr. Guigen ZhangUniversity of Georgia
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