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Title:
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Computational Methods in Bioengineering

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Organizers:
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Suvranu De
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Jonsson Engineering Center 2046 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180-3590
phone (518) 276-6096
fax   (518) 276-6025
E-mail des@rpi.edu

Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad
Department of Bioengineering
Director, Biomechanics & Cellular Mechanobiology Laboratory
University of California Berkeley
483 Evans Hall  #1762
Berkeley, CA 94720-1762
Phone: (510) 643-8165   
Fax:     (510) 642-5835   
Email: mofrad@berkeley.edu

Ashkan Vaziri
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 316
Cambridge, MA 02138
avaziri@deas.harvard.edu
Phone:    (617)-496-5167
Fax:    (617) 495-0601

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Minisymposium description:
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The aim of the Computational Bioengineering minisymposium is to recognize the increasing role of 
computation in Bioengineering. It is now established that computational tools are indispensable to 
augment experimental techniques for the analysis of complex biosystems and increase the success 
rates of clinical interventions and therapeutic effectiveness.  The innovations brought about by 
the application of computational technology to bioengineering are expected to have a substantial 
socioeconomic impact. It is anticipated that this minisymposium will build upon the overhwhelming 
success of the symposia organized within the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics in 03 
and 05, respectively.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to) the following:

- Solid and fluid biomechanics as well as fluid-structure interactions.
- Computational models for molecular, cellular, and tissue biomechanics.
- Biological mass transport.
- Remodeling, regeneration.
- Computational simulations of injury and injury prevention.
- Innovations in numerical techniques (FEM/FVM/BEM/FDM/Meshless methods etc) and algorithmic 
  issues for biomechanical simulations.
- Multiscale and multiphysics modeling.
- Virtual reality based techniques of surgical simulation and planning.