WE-Heraeus Workshop
August 12 - 20, 2010
"Biomedical Modeling and Visualization"
organized by: Horst-Karl Hahn, Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Lars Linsen, Tobias Preußer
The modeling and simulation of bio-physical and medical processes is a very active and growing field of research at the interface of physics, mathematics, biology and engineering. In many cases the goal is to analyze processes that appear in the progression of diseases or during their treatment. Since there have been enormous improvements in the digitalization of the imaging in medicine during the last years, the number of researchers who study the modeling and simulation in this area is increasing. The models and simulations are able to be efficiently parameterized with the help of digital acquired image data. This leads to a detailed comparison of the results with experimental data. Therefore it is possible to realize short intensive cycles of modeling, simulation and experiment. Furthermore the interaction with physicians and the preparation of suitable communication tools is an important task for the research in the area of visualization and the human-computer-interaction due to the translation of the investigated models to clinical applications. Particularly big challenges are the enormous data volume, which is generated by simulations and image acquisition devices as well as the communication of measurement errors and uncertainties.
The workshop is in the focus of the ICTS summer program 2010
The workshop will consist of the following three parts
- Uncertainty Visualization (12./13. August 2010)
- Modeling and Simulation of Excitation Waves in Cardiac Tissue (16./17. August)
- Hierarchical Materials and Multiscale-Modeling in Biology (19./20. August)
We invite applications from master students, PhD students, postdocs and colleagues with a background in theoretical physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics (with an interest in biomedical phenomena) as well as students from life sciences (with an interest in mathematical modeling and visualization).
The WE-Heraeus Workshop 2010 is funded by the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Foundation.
