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Videos

Laser fusion gets HiPERactive

Mike Dunne, director of the European High Power Laser Energy Research (HiPER) project, describes what it will take to transform laser-driven fusion into a real-world power source

Taking the pulse of the Vulcan laser

Kate Lancaster explains what it's like to work on one of the world's highest-intensity lasers

The biomedical attraction of magnetic nanoparticles

Magnetic-materials specialist Kevin O'Grady predicts a big future for small particles in clinical applications

Spintronics made easy

David Awschalom explains how the spin of the electron could be exploited in completely new types of electronic circuits

Nobel laureate looks to the future of spintronics

Albert Fert is not resting on his laurels

Vox pops: The spin on electronics!

Physicists tell us what's hot in spintronics

CERN boss targets linear collider

Rolf-Dieter Heuer confirms November switch-on for the Large Hadron Collider and plans for lab's future

Vox pops: life at the frontier

Ever wondered what it's like to work at CERN? Seven insiders explain their roles in the world's biggest physics experiment as it prepares for switch-on after last year's accident

Big science: managing the information

CERN's head of communication, James Gillies, explains how the lab is handling the huge media interest in the LHC and how it plans to remain one step ahead of the physics bloggers to prevent unwanted rumours from spreading

Webinar series

Green Energy Simulations

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Green Energy Simulations


Speaker: Keith Howard, branch manager, COMSOL UK Ltd

This webinar will demonstrate some of the many applications where green energy simulations are crucial to engineering success. Examples include solar, wind and hydropower. You will see how to handle the coupled effects that are constantly present in green energy simulations.

Free registration

Online lecture series – Strange Genius: The Life and Times of Paul Dirac

Speaker: Graham Farmelo, senior research fellow, Science Museum, London

Join Graham Farmelo for the inaugural webinar in the Physics World Online Lecture Series as he celebrates Dirac's huge scientific achievement and legacy, and offers a portrait of Dirac's extraordinary life.

Running time: 60 min

Heat Transfer and Multiphysics Modelling

Speaker: Dr Niklas Rom, manager of global technical customer support and training

This webinar highlights the benefits of thermal management by modelling. COMSOL Multiphysics simulation tools enable engineers and scientists to analyse effects resulting from temperature distribution from coupled heating effects.

Running time: 59 min

Understanding your complex data: data visualization and analysis with IDL

Speaker: Mark Piper, PhD, senior instructor/consulting engineer, ITT Visual Information Solutions

IDL is the ideal, time-saving solution for scientific data analysis, data visualization and software-application development. The webinar will focus on using IDL for data exploration, visualization and analysis.

Running time: 54 min

Multiphysics simulation – the new pacemaker of EM design

Speaker: Dr Magnus Olsson, manager of COMSOL's Computational Electromagnetics Development group

The breakthrough of multiphysics modelling techniques is widening the EM designer's scope to create new product concepts. Sponsored by COMSOL, this webinar introduces you to applying multiphysics modelling techniques to EM analysis.

Running time: 1 hr 4 min

Multiphysics in fluid flow

Speaker: Phil Byrne, district sales manager, COMSOL, Inc.

Multiphysics in fluid flow will introduce you to the state-of-the-art simulation environment to help you to increase process efficiency. This webinar is aimed at physicists and engineers who work with the research and development or design of industrial machinery, equipment or processes.

Running time: 36 min

Multiphysics – a guided tour

Speaker: David Kan, branch manager, COMSOL, Inc.

This webinar introduces you to a wide range of challenging design problems that can now be easily tackled by applying multiphysics modelling and simulation techniques.

A hands-on tutorial demonstrates the workflow in the design of a MEMS device including the coupling of electromagnetic, structural mechanics, and heat transfer phenomena in the same simulation.

Running time: 45 min