ECCM 2010 in Paris

I'll be on ECCM 2010, the IVth European Conference on Computational Mechanics - Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering.

I'm accepted for the minisymposium Topology Optimization for Multiphysics Problems by Ole Sigmund and Kurt Maute.

The title for my talk is "Acoustic Near Field Topology Optimization of a Piezoelectric Loudspeaker". I (hope) it is cool stuff - at least it drives the computational costs back to "normal". Having a 3D Helmholtz Equation with a discretization driven by acoustic far field conditions is very expensive - too expensive to do experiments with broad frequency range optimization. It is difficult stuff for the optimizer requiring a hell of iterations and one has to take care to be not only left with colorful pictures ...

I'm very proud that I got invited (by Ole Sigmund) and according to professors its an honour. So I'm simply happy and will do my best! :)

The conference is in Paris from May 16 to 21 in 2010. A lot of colleagues from Erlangen will also come - we are a really big structural optimization group there! I hope it's not too expensive - Lisbon was cool! Tube for 80 cents, a beer in a Cafe 1,10 Euros and probably the most appealing capital in Europe to me. I haven't been to Paris for a very long time - and always camped then.

Blog blogging

A year has passed since I added my blog to feedjit.com to control who's reading my blog (beside google). You can see the data on the right sidebar in the lower region - a world-map and an detailed access list. When people google me I can even see what the googled for.

Well, now I know at least that some people read me - even when they actually searched for something different. Here comes a short list of common stuff people search for:

• "piezo matlab" - sorry I use a complex C++ FEM code


• "math riddle" - I have only a single one.


• "topology optimization" - in some countries I'm quite high in google ?!


• "topology optimization book" - some read my review - and with feedjit I can see which amazon link the followed.
  
• "piezoelectric loudspeaker" - yeah - some new stuff! :)


• paper - a few times people searched for my paper - once from South Korea. Now, please cite me! :)
  

It also seams that some people bookmarked me and I know of at least two scientists who found and read me. So I'll continue blogging - hopefully more regularly :). I know of no other blog within my community - unfortunately, it would be interesting what the Danish and piezo guys do ...

Actually I like to blog but it is time consuming and I blog only at night. I don't write as open as I would like. I would like to share some remarks about my community - but not in public. It's no good style and you never know hows reviewing you. I also have no private blog and I believe there is often a 'private' side in some of my posts. I'll have to do more on my facebook account to 'satisfy' this. :)

I'm happy about comments or mails - even more if you start a own blog - just let me know :)

Happy new year!