Dear ESB member,
I would like to attract your attention to the upcoming ESB-endorsed event:
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NSpine 2013 – The Comprehensive Spine Course
5-8 September 2013
Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery,
Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
Website: http://www.nspine.co.uk
There will be a discount of 15% on the registration fee for ESB members.
Dear ESB member,
I should like to attract your attention to the upcoming ESB-endorsed event:
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2nd Call for Abstracts
11th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
April 3-6, 2013, Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Chair: Jeffrey Weiss, University of Utah
Co-Chair: Gerard Ateshian, Columbia University
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS – December 14th, 2012
ACCEPTANCE OF ABSTRACTS – January 14th, 2013
Abstracts will be reviewed on a continuous basis to speed up the acceptance process.
We invite both new and previous participants of the CMBBE Symposia series to submit abstracts to the 2013 Symposium, which will be held in the United States for the first time! We welcome submissions that focus on the topics listed below, as well as innovative developments in both theoretical and applied biosimulation.
SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR GENERAL SUBMISSIONS:
http://cmbbe13.sci.utah.edu/topics.html
SPECIAL SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS:
We have programmed 14 Special Sessions and 3 Workshops as part of the Symposium.
http://cmbbe13.sci.utah.edu/sessions.html
SYMPOSIUM FORMAT:
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
We are pleased to announce that Professors Scott Delp from Stanford University, Suvranu De from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Andrew McCulloch from UC San Diego will be giving Plenary Talks at the Symposium.
CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
Don Anderson (USA), Lynne E. Bilston (Australia), Tom Brown (USA), Estevam de las Casas (Brazil), Tim David (New Zealand), Suvranu De (Plenary Speaker, USA), Scott Delp (Plenary Speaker, USA), Manuel Doblare (Spain), Gabriele Dubini (Italy), Ahmet Erdemir (USA), Sam Evans (U.K.), Paulo R. Fernandes (Portugal), Thomas Franz (South Africa), Amit Gefen (Israel), Weiyong Gu (USA), Edward Guo (USA), Chris Jacobs (USA), Ellen Kuhl (USA), Jia Lu (USA), Andrew McCulloch (Plenary Speaker, USA), John Middleton (U.K.), James Moore (UK), Ralph Mueller (Switzerland), Glen Niebur (USA), Cees Oomens (Netherlands), Chris Peters (USA), Dominque P. Pioletti (Switzerland), Nigel Shrive (Canada), Wafa Skalli (France), Jos van der Sloten (Belgium), Marc Thiriet (France), Jonathan Vande Geest (USA), Pascal Verdonck (Belgium), Philippe K. Zysset (Switzerland)
VENUE:
The meeting will be held at the Marriott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA:
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/slccc-salt-lake-city-marriott-city-center
We have negotiated substantially reduced rates for the symposium participants. Rates for both single and double rooms are $139/night.
SYMPOSIUM FEES:
Student: $350
Regular/Presenter: $500
Late Fee (after February 17, 2013): $80
Accompanying person fee for Wednesday Reception and Friday Banquet: $250 total
There will be a discount of 10% on the registration fee for students and regular ESB members.
The symposium fees include admission to all sessions, Buffet Reception on the evening of April 3rd, the Symposium Banquet on the evening of April 6th, breakfast and lunch on 3 days and coffee breaks on 4 days, and an electronic copy of the Proceedings.
PREVIOUS PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the previous symposium can be found here: http://www.cmbbe2012.cf.ac.uk/.
The Hellenic (Greek) Society of Biomechanics will have its 5th Congress at 28-29 September 2012, in Thessaloniki. The invited plenary speakers at our 5th Congress are:
Professor Thomas Buchanan, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, USA
Lecture title: “Neuromusculoskeletal models to estimate knee joint contact forces” and
Professor Nick Stergiou, Biomechanics – Health, Physical Education & Recreation, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Lecture title: “A perspective on human movement variability: Implications for health and pathology“
The Congress website is at http://elembio2012.web.auth.gr/web/
On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the HSB Council, I invite you to present your work at our Congress. The official language is Greek but English presentations are also welcomed.
The deadline for submitting your abstract has been extended to July 6, 2012.
My best regards
Elissavet Rousanoglou – HSB president
Second meeting of the Spanish National Chapter
The second Meeting of the Spanish National Chapter will be held in Seville on 25th October 2012 at the ETS Ingenieros. The meeting will gather the Spanish members of the ESB who will have the opportunity to present their research. Moreover, two special sessions will be held: – A special session about technology transfer in biomechanics, in which companies and centers of technology are invited to present their work. – A round table involving clinicians and engineers/researchers in Biomechanics Both sessions aim at supporting technology transfer activities as a response to previous discussions at General Assembly of the Chapter in Zaragoza. More information about the second Meeting of the ESB Spanish National Chapter is available at:www.capituloesb.us.es
16th-19th September 2012, Bialystok, Poland
The main objective of the 30th Anniversary Meeting of the Polish Biomechanics is to create an opportunity for researchers and practitioners engaged in the fields of biomechanics and biomedical engineering to meet, present the latest scientific achievements and discuss the actual problems. Taking into account the specific localization of Bialystok, situated close to the eastern boundary of the European Union, we hope that BIOMECHANICS 2012 will be a special occasion for promoting collaboration between researchers from eastern and western European countries.
Lectures presented by invited speakers, oral and poster sessions, exhibition of laboratory and clinical equipment, as well as a special workshop will be good opportunities for presenting the participants’ research, as well as for providing new stimuli for further activity. It is worth mentioning that the best papers presented during the conference will be published in the Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics (Indexed in: Current Contents, Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Index Copernicus, Thomson Reuters: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Journal Citation Reports).
Conference website: www.biomechanics2012.pb.edu.pl/
7th – 11th May 2012, Barcelona, Spain
The third VPH NoE study group (SG3) will be held in Barcelona in May 2012. The event, organised by the University of Sheffield, Super Computing Solutions, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, will take place at UPF premises the week after the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2012).
Following the success of previous study groups organised by the VPH NoE Consortium, the format of SG3 will be quite similar to that of SG1 and SG21. The organisers invited three groups of world-recognised experts, typically leading large VPH Projects, to submit a proposal for a grand challenge in the area of musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and oncology research. The organisers requested that these grand challenges would identify each a challenging modelling workflow, a minimum list of “essential” tools known to be necessary, and a list of European research groups that are known to be active in research topics that could benefit from the complete realisation of such workflow.
Norbert Graf, USAAR – University Hospital of Saarland, coordinator of the P-medicine project, and Georgios Stamatakos, ICCS – National Technical University of Athens, coordinator of the Oncosimulator Project proposed “Multiscale cancer models and oncosimulators for clinical use”;
Fulvia Taddei, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, co-coordinator of the VPHOP project, and Damien Lacroix, IBEC Barcelona, coordinator of the MYSPINE project proposed “Multiscale models of the skeleton for clinical use”;
Blanca Rodriguez, University of Oxford, Pras Pathmanathan, University of Oxford, Pablo Lamata, Kings College London/University of Oxford and Mariano Vazquez, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre proposed “Multiscale multiphysics modelling and simulation of the cardiovascular system”.
Please note: Registration for this event is now closed.
Study group website: www.cistib.upf.edu/vphnoe-sg3/index.php/3rd-vph-study-group
2nd Announcement
CAE technologies for Industry and ANSYS Italian Conference 2009. 1-2 October, Bergamo, Italy. 2nd Announcement and Invitation.
Simulation and Virtual Prototyping are seen as key disciplines for achieving progress in engineering and science in the 21st century. In this light, EnginSoft is hosting its International Conference 2009 CAE Technologies for Industry on 1–2 October in Bergamo – Northern Italy.
The Conference Committee has received an overwhelming response to the Call for Papers and has now published a list of outstanding papers that will be presented on the 2 days of the conference.
The program covers a wide range of innovative topics and applications in such areas as: optimization, mechanics, industrial applications, structural engineering, manufacturing process simulation, computational fluid-dynamics, emerging technologies, durability and fatigue, rapid and impact dynamic, CAD/CAE integration….
To register and to view a preliminary list of papers, please visit the conference website: www.caeconference.com
