Keynote Speakers
Steven Conrad, Ph.D., M.D., Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center
Advanced simulation in medicine and biology: Opportunities for multiphysics modeling
Steven Conrad received his MD degree from Louisiana State University in 1978, and his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. His clinical practice includes intensive care and emergency medicine, and his research interests include computational dynamics and bioinformatics. He has worked with dynamic models of gas transport in artificial lungs, and more recently with finite element models of solute transport in artificial kidneys.
Thomas Dreeben, Ph.D., OSRAM SYLVANIA
Acoustic streaming flows in discharge lighting
Thomas Dreeben received his B.A. in Philosophy and Mathematics in 1985, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, both from Cornell University. He has worked in automotive fuel systems at Ford Motor Company, and in turbulence at Sandia National Laboratories. He currently works in lighting research at OSRAM SYLVANIA, where his modeling focuses on fluid mechanics and heat transfer as they pertain to energy efficiency.
Mihan McKenna, Ph.D., U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center
Using COMSOL for geophysics applications
Dr. McKenna is a Research Geophysicist at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). She directs the Denied Area Monitoring and Exploitation Systems working group at ERDC, which has ongoing integrated high performance computing modeling and experimental research with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Defense Intelligence Agency, Los Alamos National Laboratory and academic institutions.
Yosuke Mizuyama, Ph.D., Panasonic Boston Laboratory
Finite element simulation for electronics
Dr. Yosuke Mizuyama is a Lead Engineer at Panasonic Boston Laboratory. He has been working on various electronics for Panasonic Corporation in Japan for many years. His research includes incandescent/fluorescent lamp, electrostatic/pzt inkjet, MEMS and BD/DVD/CD optical drive. His current interest is electromagnetic simulation for laser and optics. He has been engaged in numerical analysis using the finite element method and other numerical methods for his research.
Svante Littmarck, President and CEO, COMSOL
A first Look at COMSOL version 4.1
Svante Littmarck is the President and CEO of COMSOL. He co-founded the company 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.
