October 8-10, 2009 marked the annual COMSOL Conference, held in Boston, MA. Engineers, professorEditorial Assistant, Molly Whitman, proudly displays J&B Engineering titles at COMSOL Boston 2009.s, students, and software specialists gathered at the event to share ideas, view new functionality, hear keynote speakers and user presentations – including one by J&B author Roger Pryor, PhD – and view poster sessions created by their colleagues and peers. Dr. Pryor’s presentation, titled “Expanding Your Materials Horizon,” touched upon the use of COMSOL numerical analysis software to streamline materials properties data location, acquisition, and incorporation into COMSOL models. His presentation sparked lively discussion and interest in increasing the range and opportunity to use new materials in exploratory models.

At the J&B booth, attendees got a first glimpse at Dr. Pryor’s forthcoming book, Multiphysics Modeling Using COMSOL®: A First Principles Approach, to be published in December 2009. As Dr. Pryor’s own booth for his company, Pryor Knowledge Systems, was just nearby, attendees had the added fortune of discussing the book with the author himself. Attendees from all corners of the globe, including Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Japan, and more, stopped by the J&B booth to view Dr. Pryor’s new text as well as several other J&B engineering technology and mathematics offerings. Engineers were particularly interested in several texts from the recently acquired Infinity Science Press, including Dr. Uno Ingard’s Acoustics, and Dr. Michael Weeks’ Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB® and Wavelets, 2/E. What a fun event to showcase J&B’s growing engineering technology list of titles!