WKU News Release

Applied Physics Institute Student Attends International Conference

October 25, 2007

Bowling Green, Ky. - Jason Smith, an undergraduate student researcher from Western Kentucky University’s Applied Physics Institute, recently traveled to Boston for the Third Annual International COMSOL Conference.

The COMSOL MultiPhysics software models real life situations using partial differential equations. This is beneficial because real world phenomenon can be represented mathematically and studied in details with computers.

Smith, a Smiths Grove senior who is working on a defense-related project, presented a benchmark test to analyze how accurately sound propagates through walls in the COMSOL acoustic module. His project is called “Modeling Results for Environmental Acoustic Pressure Obstructions.”

“I was able to do a lot of networking while I was there, and received valuable feedback about our project from everyone who attended,” Smith said.

During the Oct. 4-6 conference, participants presented and offered introductory tutorials and mini-courses for use in other COMSOL modules. Yale University, Intel, IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were among the institutions that presented research at the conference.

The Applied Physics Institute is a multidisciplinary center performing research and development projects in areas of nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, wireless data communications, homeland security, material science, and electronics. API researcher’s interests cover virtually all aspects of applied science and technology.

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