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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">We would like to update you about the workshops and program of the American Modelica Conference 2018, October 9<sup>th</sup> and 10<sup>th</sup> in Boston, which features free training with the Modelica Buildings Library. Here are the important points up-front:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The<a href="https://modelica.org/events/modelica2018Americas/preliminary-program/program" title="final program" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068a5"> final program</span></a> is online! Check it out.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-american-modelica-conference-2018-tickets-39188362447" title="register online" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068a5">register online</span></a> soon if you plan
to come.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Many thanks to our<a href="#m_6098671358633816268_sponsors" title="Sponsors and Exhibitors"><span style="color:#0068a5"> sponsors and exhibitors</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Take a look at the<a href="#m_6098671358633816268_workshops" title="Workshop Information"><span style="color:#0068a5"> free workshops</span></a> on October 8<sup>th</sup>, before the conference (details below)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On October 11th, there will be <a href="#m_6098671358633816268_usermeeting" title="Modelica Association User Meeting"><span style="color:#0068a5">Modelica Association User Meeting</span></a>, also in Boston (details below)<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Sponsors and Exhibitors</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Workshop Information</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">There will be 3 workshops in total: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Workshop 1: Introduction to Modeling with Modelica</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><br>
This workshop will give an introduction to Modelica. We will be presenting the principles of modeling with Modelica and efficient use of model libraries using various multi-domain examples selected to make the workshop attractive for engineers from all branches
of engineering.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Workshop 2: Thermo-fluid Modeling with Applications from the Buildings Library</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><br>
This workshop will give an introduction into modeling of thermo-fluid systems and their control, using Modelon's latest graphical editor. We will be using applications from the Buildings library, but the course will be structured to also appeal to modelers
from other application domains that are concerned with thermo-fluid systems.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Workshop 3: Introduction to Physiological Modeling with Modelica</span></strong><br>
The development of models of human physiology was facilitated by a new generation of simulation environments using Modelica language. Fundamental innovation of the Modelica language is the possibility to describe individual parts of the model as a system of
equations directly describing the behavior of that part and not the algorithm of solving of these equations (see <a href="http://physiome.cz/modelica.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068a5">http://physiome.cz/modelica.pdf</span></a>).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">This tutorial gives an introduction to the Modelica language, the OpenModelica environment, and an overview of modeling and simulation in a number of application areas.<br>
The tutorial will show the acausal approach of modeling physiological system using Physiolibrary, an open-source library for biomedical modeling, which allows presenting complex models composed from different domains as comprehensible and maintainable form.
Together with participants, models will be constructed of the cardiovascular system, chemical reactions, body thermal transfer, osmotic phenomenon, and integrative approach. Attendees should bring their own computers to participate in the hands-on sections
of the tutorial.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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The first part of the tutorial will introduce the acausal and object-oriented Modelica language using an open-source tool OpenModelica (<a href="http://www.openmodelica.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068a5">www.openmodelica.org</span></a>) and a
commercial tool Dymola. Attendees can install the open-source OpenModelica tool in advance before the tutorial.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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The second part of the tutorial will consist of hands-on sections that will demonstrate building selected models of 1) cardiovascular system dynamics – using the hydraulic domain. 2) common biochemical reactions – using the chemical domain. 3) body thermal
transfers with blood flow using thermal domain 4) liquid volume of the penetrating solution in intracellular space, extracellular space, interstitial space, blood plasma or cerebrospinal fluid using osmotic domain 5) integrative approach which connects these
domains together. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Workshop location and time:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">October 8<sup>th</sup>, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Modelica Beginners Tutorial, provided by Modelon, offices of Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">October 8<sup>th</sup>, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Building Simulation Tutorial, provided by Michael Wetter, LBNL, offices of Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">October 8<sup>th</sup>, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Physiological Modeling Workshop, provided by Marek Matejak and Filip Jezek, offices of Amgen, 360 Binney St. Cambridge, MA 02141<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Registration for all workshops is through the conference registration on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-american-modelica-conference-2018-tickets-39188362447" title="Registration" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068a5">Eventbrite</span></a>.
Note that workshop 1 is already sold out. There is a waiting list for cancellations, please contact
<a href="mailto:hubertus.tummescheit@modelon.com" target="_blank">Modelon</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Please note that workshops 1 and 2 are sequential, and workshop 2 expects users to know Modelica or have done workshop 1, and that workshop 3 is in parallel, at a different location. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Modelica Association User Meeting, October 11th, Boston</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">On October 11th, the Modelica Association organizes a User Meeting for all users of Modelica Association Standards. More information on the standards is available at <a href="https://modelica.org/projects" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068a5">https://modelica.org/projects</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">The purpose of the user meeting is to start a dialogue between the Modelica Association and its users in North America and collect feedback and requirements from industrial and academic
users. It will be a face-to-face meeting with the option to connect remotely via Webex which will be provided to registered participants.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">The meeting will take place in the offices of MERL at 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139, October 11th, from 9.00 am to latest 16.00. Interested participants are requested to register
via the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-american-modelica-conference-2018-tickets-39188362447" title="Meeting registration" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068a5">conference registration site</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">9.00 – 9.30 get together and coffee, 9.30 start of meeting and web conference<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Agenda items (order and timing TBD):<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Modelica language: presentation of projects status and roadmap, Q&A session (30 minutes)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Modelica Standard Library: presentation of project status and roadmap, Q&A session (30 minutes)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) standard: presentation of project status and roadmap, Q&A session (30 minutes)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">System Structure and Parameterization of Components for Virtual System Design (SSP): status of draft standard,<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New project: Distributed Co-Simulation Protocol (DCP). Presentation of status and roadmap by project leader Martin Krammer.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ongoing research, projects and outlook for the Modelica Association, presentation by Martin Otter, Chairman, Modelica Association<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Roundtable discussion: user needs and requirements for Modelica Association standards and desired future open standards in system simulation.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">15.00 End of Meeting.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#555555;line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top">
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Many thanks to MERL for all their support for the conference and to also be so generous to host this meeting! The Modelica Association would be glad to see many of you in person and
hear your feedback and input about our standards and libraries.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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