Every fall, engineers, researchers, and scientists from across North America travel to the Boston area for the COMSOL Conference to exchange ideas, share their work, and draw inspiration from the many ways modeling and simulation is being used to drive innovation. This year, it will be held at the Boston Marriott Burlington and will feature work from industries, including, but not limited to, aerospace and defense, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, and food and beverage. In this blog post, let’s take a look at four reasons to attend the the COMSOL Conference 2025 Boston.
1. Engage with the Simulation Community and Walk Away with Meaningful Connections
For more than 20 years, engineers, researchers, and scientists across a wide range of industries have come together for this 3-day modeling and simulation event. By attending keynotes and invited talks, attendees hear how guest speakers are using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software in innovative and cutting-edge ways. They also learn specific, in-depth modeling and simulation best practices from the more than 30 minicourses offered throughout the conference. These instructor-led, one-hour sessions typically include a slideshow, a live demo in the software, and a Q&A session, valuable to both new and experienced software users.
COMSOL Conference attendees having a conversation in the poster hall.
In addition, attendees can spend their time connecting with one another between sessions and presentations, as well as during coffee breaks and catered lunches. Josh Thomas, a senior engineer at AltaSim Technologies and returning conference attendee, shared, “I’ve been to the recent COMSOL Conferences and each time there are people who I connect with directly that I end up corresponding with throughout the year. Whether they are a new customer or a COMSOL employee, they are always a contact that contributes to me excelling at my simulation job.”
At the COMSOL Conference 2024 Boston, Josh Thomas presented his work on treatment for infections after knee replacement surgery.
2. Get Inspired by Leading Organizations
One of the biggest learning opportunities at the conference can be found at the keynote talks. This year, 6 speakers will each share how modeling and simulation impacts their unique area of focus. Their talks will span a range of industries and topics, including acoustics, food processing, consumer electronics, aerospace, and semiconductors, and will showcase how modeling and simulation helps them design, optimize, predict, and save resources in ways specific to their industry.
Keynote talks for 2025 feature:
- AltaSim Technologies: “Creating Knowledge with COMSOL Multiphysics®”
- Amazon Lab126: “Sound Science: Leveraging Acoustics Simulation for Better Alexa Devices”
- Conagra Brands: “From Byte to Bite: Solving Problems in the Food Processing Industry with Multiphysics Models”
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “Thermal Inverse Design of Microheaters”
- NASA Ames Research Center: “Reconstructing Surface Heating from an Inflatable Atmospheric Reentry Vehicle”
- TEL: “Beyond Measurement: Simulating Nanoscale Gas Behavior in Wafer Fabrication Systems”
Hannah Alpert, an aerospace systems engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center, shared why she values speaking at the conference. “With the need to make smarter design decisions and innovate faster, modeling and simulation are increasingly important tools in an engineer’s arsenal,” she said. “I’m looking forward to speaking at the COMSOL Conference 2025 and highlighting how COMSOL Multiphysics® helps NASA to solve complex engineering challenges.”
An attendee asking a question during a keynote talk at the COMSOL Conference 2024 Boston.
COMSOL will give a keynote talk that shares a first look at the upcoming version — COMSOL Multiphysics® version 6.4. This is a special opportunity for attendees to learn about what’s new in the software and the reasons behind these updates. Joseph Barakat, a lead engineer at Veryst and returning attendee, said, “It is always exciting to learn what is on the horizon for the latest updates to COMSOL®’s interfaces. Last year, several of the application engineers showcased the new additions to the population balance interface in COMSOL®, a modeling framework to solve problems in crystallization, dissolution, aggregation, and breakup in particle technologies.”
The Settings window for the new Size-Based Population Balance interface in COMSOL Multiphysics®, used to model particle technologies.
3. See Innovative Modeling and Simulation Work
During invited slideshow talks and poster presentations, engineers and researchers will highlight how they are using COMSOL Multiphysics®. Presenters will introduce their modeling work, discuss their methodology, showcase the models they have built, and share their results. This provides an opportunity to exchange ideas and ask questions. A poster gallery also will be displayed for the duration of the event, giving attendees a chance to read and observe the work at their own pace.
“As certified consultants, we are proud of the work we do throughout the year supporting our customers. The COMSOL Conference is a great way each year for us to show off some of what we’ve done. We always appreciate reconnecting with past customers and meeting new potential customers,” said Thomas. Sharing your work opens the door for feedback and questions from the audience, as well as a way to exchange ideas with fellow engineers, researchers, and scientists.
A conference attendee discusses his poster with COMSOL engineers.
All accepted posters and papers are in the running for the Best Poster and Best Paper awards, chosen by a group of experts from different industries and research organizations, and will be published online after the event. Throughout the conference, attendees will cast their votes for the Best Poster by Popular Vote award.
4. Receive Modeling Insight and Support in Real Time
The COMSOL Conference provides a unique opportunity to meet in person with COMSOL engineers to receive 1-on-1 insight and support on your modeling and simulation questions. You can sit down with a specialist, pull out your laptop, and get personalized guidance on your trickiest software questions. Whether you have follow-up questions on what you learned from a minicourse or are looking for ways to improve a model you’re working on, stop by the demo stations to chat with one of our application engineers. The opportunity to receive in-person insight and support tailored to your specific needs and questions is one of the benefits unique to the conference.
A COMSOL engineer helping an attendee at a demo station.
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