Invited Lectures (incomplete)
Opening Lecture:
Professor Peter Hunter, The University of Auckland, Director, Bioengineering Institute, Level 6, 70 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand, e-mail: p.hunter@auckland.ac.nz
Title: A bioengineer's view of recent development in VPH/Physiome Project
Plenary Lectures:
Professor Wing Kam Liu, Walter P. Murphy Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208-3111, USA, e-mail: w-liu@northwestern.edu
Title: Nano-Devices in Biotechnology and Drug Delivery
Professor J.N. Reddy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3123, USA, e-mail: jnreddy@shakti.tamu.edu
Title: TBA
Keynote Lectures:
Professor Raúl A. Feijóo and Professor Pablo J Blanco, Coordenação de Ciência da Computação, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Av. Getúlio Vargas 333, Quitandinha, CEP: 25651-075, Petrópolis, RJ, Brasil, e-mail: feij@lncc.br
Title: A computational model for the entire cardiovascular system based on coupling hetero-dimensional models.
Professor Nic Smith, Professor of Computational Physiology, University of Oxford, UK, e-mail: nicsmith@comlab.ox.ac.uk
Title: Multi-scale modelling of cardiac flow and coronary perfusion
Professor David Steinman, Biomedical Simulation Laboratory, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Totonto ON, Canada, M5S 3G8, e-mail: steinman@mie.utotonto.ca
Title: Thinking outside the bench
Professor Guowei Wei, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA, e-mail: wei@math.msu.edu
Title: TBA
Professor Jean-Frederic Gerbeau, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, F-78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France, e-mail: jean-frederic.gerbeau@inria.fr
Title: Inverse problems for blood flows in large vessels
Professor Gui-Rong Liu, Centre for ACES, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, e-mail: mpeliugr@nus.edu.sg
Title: Meshfree methods based on W2 formulation for flow simulation of deformable red blood cells
Professor Anne M. Robertson, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA, e-mail: rbertson@pitt.edu
Title: On the Biomechanics of Damage in Cerebral Vessels
Professor Ge Wang, ICTAS Center for Biomedical Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Virginia Tech, USA, e-mail: wangg@vt.edu
Title: Fast X-ray Imaging