This is our last enews for the year, and a short one. Please take a quick peek to see if there is anything that interests you. Do contact us if you need a quote or want to spend your budget before the end of the year.
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Events
Info Packs for Recent Conferences Sponsored by HRS
HRS sponsored many association and society conferences this quarter where there would have been a strong presence by our customer base. We promoted information pack giveaways on products of use to delegates at these conferences.
If you were a member or affiliate of the association or society organising one of the conferences we sponsored, but were unable to attend, then you may be interested in the information that was offered.
Contact us if you are interested in receiving information relevant to the specific conference you would have attended and we will gladly supply you with a pack.
Dates |
Conferences |
City |
12-13 Nov |
Wellington |
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22-23 Nov |
Queenstown |
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26-29 Nov |
Tauranga |
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26-28 Nov |
Palmerston North |
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27-30 Nov |
Queenstown |
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29-30 Nov |
Auckland |
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05-07 Dec |
Hamilton |
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10-13 Dec |
Christchurch |
to request the info pack for the conference that interests you.
Product News
Budgets - ‘Use it or Lose it’
The old saying ‘use it or lose it’ holds true for many department budgets in both academia and industry. Why not see if your department or staff members need software to help them do their jobs better and invest any remaining budget you need to spend before the end of the year on technology. By investing the remainder of your budget in technology you get to maintain your budget level for next year and your staff receive valuable tools to make them more productive.
HRS staff would be happy to help identify tools for your staff that will help them do their jobs better so contact HRS today for free presales advice.
to contact HRS for free presales advice.
Get ahead with MATLAB, Mathcad and Maple Student Licenses
Top students often get ahead by purchasing tools to help them with their study and research over the summer break. We have a limited number of student copies in stock so contact us before 19 December 07 to reserve your copy in time so you too can get ahead over the holidays.
to contact Glen for a Maple Student License
to contact Bruce for a MATLAB or Mathcad Student License
4 New Maple Application Briefs
Maplesoft Application Briefs are a growing collection of key applications that show how Maplesoft solutions are applied to critical technical projects and interesting real world problems. Read the overview for each application brief below and follow the link if you wish to read the full story.
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Maple Tip & Technique: Working with Audio in Maple
If you are interested in this topic and other Classroom Tips & Techniques, then visit the Maple Application Centre.
for more details.
ToleranceCalc™ 5.0
ToleranceCalc™ 5.0 is breakthrough CAD add-on wizard that makes 1D and 2D min-max and statistical tolerance analysis of parts and assemblies, designed in any popular CAD application, easy as spell checking.
Quick, accurate, and timely decision-support information from ToleranceCalc 5.0 helps users to prevent costly redesigns.
to email Bruce for more details.
New Pricing of Humusoft DAQ Boards
As of December 1, 2007, we have introduced new pricing for the Real Time
Toolbox and Data Acquisition boards.
to contact Bruce for either educational or commercial pricing.
Humusoft Real Time Toolbox 4.01
Real Time Toolbox 4.01 has been released. New in this version:
- Support of Windows Vista operating system
- New Installer for easy installation on all supported platforms
- New demo version
If you think you will find the new features of Real Time Toolbox 4.01 useful to you then please contact Bruce at bruce@hrs.co.nz with a request for a price quotation for updating your Real Time Toolbox system to the version 4.01.
to access further information and a demo version.
Publishing Tools for Math and Science Professionals
If you are an academic or industry professional who regularly publishes math or scientific based papers, the following tools may interest you.
- WORD2TEX - Convert and save word documents into LateX format
- TEX2WORD - Open TeX format documents in Microsoft Word
- MATHTYPE - Typeset your equations
to email us for further information.
XFdtd 6.5
Remcom announces the release of XFdtd 6.5. XFdtd is a full wave 3D electromagnetic solver based on the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. Applications include microwave, RF, antennas, scattering, biological EM, photonics, packaging, EMC, and specialised materials. XFdtd 6.5 includes important industry-leading features from previous versions such as the patent-pending Fast Meshing Algorithm and both distributed memory MPI cluster computing and GPU hardware acceleration. In addition Version 6.5 offers many new features and improvements listed below. The features of XFdtd 6.5 are presented in depth in this pdf overview 2.27 Mb. Alternatively you can view this overview as a flash presentation in the XFdtd® Showcase.
New features in XFdtd® 6.5
- Multi-frequency Sinusoidal Results such as Efficiency, SAR and Antenna Patterns from one transient excitation
- Improved results for frequency-dependent materials using Cole-Cole parameters
- Periodic Boundary Conditions with Phase Shift
- Improved Waveguide excitation
- Nonlinear Diodes with variable parameters
- Ludwig Polarization
- Independently specify time delay for multiple sources
- Automatically determine if meshed geometry objects are in contact
- Import Voxel objects with conformal meshing
- Total Field AND Scattered Field plane wave for accurate results for both scattering and shielding calculations
to contact Bruce about this product.
New CLC Bio Workbenches Released
CLC bio have just released new versions of all our workbenches, and there are a LOT of new features and updates - for example: Easier cloning, faster assembly of sequencing data, search your data, BLAST made easy, and our brand new cutting-edge RNA partition function. Visit www.clcbio.com/workbenches
to contact Bruce about this product.
General News & Working with HRS
Sponsorship
HRS has sponsored many association and society events during 2007 and we will continue to do this for events where delegates have a strong need for our products.
If you or an associate are organising a conference where the delegates could benefit from using the many mathematics based products sold and supported by HRS, please contact Leon by emailing leon@hrs.co.nz or by calling him on 0800 477 776.
User Stories
If you have any newsworthy user stories related to our products that you think our customers would be interested in reading, please contact Leon.
to email Leon or call him on 0800 477 776 to supply us with your product news.
Advertising your events on the HRS Website
If we sponsor your event, or your delegates are likely to be using one of our products, contact Leon to place details of your conference on our website.
to email Leon or call him on 0800 477 776 to advertise your event.
HRS Software Guide
If you or any of your colleagues would like a copy of our 64 page Software Guide sent to you, please contact Fiona.
to email Fiona or call her on 0800 477 776 to request a guide.
Best regards,
Leon Tepania
Marketing Manager
Hoare Research Software Ltd
Email: leon@hrs.co.nz