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Webinars
Exploring and visualizing data with IDL
Jul 21, 2010
Speaker: Dr Mark Piper, instructor/consulting engineer at ITT Visual Information Solutions.
Join us for this webinar to learn some of the basics of using IDL. Topics covered in this session include:
• overview of the IDL workbench
• reading data from files into IDL
• using arrays to store and manipulate data
• visualizing data with tools built into IDL
• producing figures for a presentation or journal article.
Plasma modelling with COMSOL Multiphysics
Jun 17, 2010
Speaker: Daniel Smith, COMSOL.
The COMSOL Multiphysics Plasma Module is designed to simplify the process of setting up a self-consistent model of a low-temperature plasma. The webinar will walk you through the process of setting up a model of an inductively coupled plasma as well as showing various other application-specific examples.
Explaining research: new tricks for new media
Jun 9, 2010
Speaker: Dennis Meredith, science research writer and consultant.
Your career success depends not only on doing good work. You must also explain that work to important audiences: your colleagues, funding officers, donors, your institution's leaders, students, your own family and friends, journalists and the public. Dennis Meredith will offer invaluable tips on using new-media technologies to engage those audiences in a clear and compelling way.
Explaining Research
ISBN: 978-0-19-973205-0
Paperback, 374pp
Capture the concept – a first look at COMSOL Multiphysics
Apr 29, 2010
Speaker: David Kan PhD, COMSOL Inc. David set up the Los Angeles branch office of COMSOL in 2001, where he is currently the vice-president of sales for the south-west US.
COMSOL Multiphysics gives you the tools to analyse all relevant aspects of your design, and to do it quickly and efficiently.
Webinar tutorials include:
• modelling a power transistor, heatsink and tuning fork
• LiveLinks to Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks and Inventor
• parametric geometry sweeps
• cluster computing for Microsoft HPC Server 2008.
Online Lecture Series – The eerie silence: are we alone in the universe?
Mar 31, 2010
Speaker: Paul Davies, director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, US
Paul Davies examines the 50-year search for messages from an alien civilization, and considers several ways in which alien technology might have left subtle footprints in the universe.
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0547133249
Hardcover, 256pp
A crack in the code: why software fails in scientific research, and how to fix it
Mar 25, 2010
Speakers: Prof. Robert McGreevy, head of diffraction science division at the ISIS neutron source, and Nicholas Draper, consultant at Tessella
Although an increasingly important part of almost all research projects, most research software is barely fit for purpose compared to equivalent systems in the commercial world. The speakers will investigate how this situation has come about, why it is important in the future of research, and what can be done about it.
Green energy simulations
Feb 25, 2010
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.
Online Lecture Series – Strange genius: the life and times of Paul Dirac
Heat transfer and multiphysics modelling
Oct 22, 2009
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.