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Program
The COMSOL Conference 2024 Boston will feature minicourses, sponsored workshops, keynote presentations, poster presentations, exhibitions, and more. The complete schedule is coming soon. In the meantime, topics to be covered are listed below.Minicourse Topics
Minicourses are 1-hour instructor-led sessions that cover modeling techniques, software functionality, and underlying theory.- Introduction to Modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics®
- New Functionality Demonstration
- Meshing and Mesh Import
- Solver Best Practices
- Results and Visualization Best Practices
- Building Simulation Apps
- Using the Model Manager
- Low-Frequency Electromagnetics
- Electric Motors
- Ray Optics
- Plasma Physics
- Wave Optics
- RF
- Structural Mechanics
- Nonlinear Structural Materials and Fatigue
- Composite Materials
- MEMS
- Acoustics
- Loudspeakers
- Laminar and Turbulent Flow
- Multiphase Flow
- Porous Media Flow
- Conjugate Heat Transfer
- Thermal Radiation
- Chemical Reaction Engineering
- Battery Design
- Fuel Cells & Electrolyzers
- Importing, Defeaturing, and Repairing CAD Files
- LiveLink™ for MATLAB®
- Equation-Based Modeling
- Surrogate Models
- Optimization
- Uncertainty Quantification
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Dario Rodrigues is an assistant professor of thermal oncology physics and director of the Hyperthermia Therapy Practice School at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Rodrigues obtained his PhD in biomedical engineering from a collaboration between NOVA University Lisbon and Duke University.
To treat cancer patients, Dr. Rodrigues performs adjuvant hyperthermia treatments that are combined with chemo- or radiotherapy. He also implements treatment planning, thermal dosimetry, and quality assurance of clinical microwave/radiofrequency (MW/RF) hyperthermia equipment. His research involves developing MW/RF- and magnetic nanoparticle-based applicators for applying heat to tissue as well as new hyperthermia treatment planning strategies to improve thermal dose delivery. This research is accomplished through theoretical modeling, engineering development, and equipment performance evaluation with phantom, animal, and human patient subjects.
Dr. Rodrigues is a councilor of engineering/physical sciences for the Society for Thermal Medicine (STM), chair of the Thermal Medicine Standards Committee hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a member of the Technical Committee of the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO).
Adam Z. Weber earned a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley under the guidance of John Newman. Dr. Weber is a senior scientist and leader of the Energy Conversion Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also codirector of the Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck Consortium and chief technology officer of the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES).
Dr. Weber's current research involves understanding and optimizing fuel cell and electrolyzer performance and lifetime using advanced modeling and diagnostics, understanding flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage, and analyzing solar-fuel generators and CO2 reduction.
He has coauthored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 11 book chapters, developed many widely used models, is regularly invited to present his work, and has 6 patents. Weber is the recipient of a number of awards, including a 2020 R&D 100 award for microelectrode development, the 2023 Fuel Cell Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, and the 2023 Research Award of the Energy Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society, of which he is a Fellow.