Wednesday, June 1

• 07:00am - 07:45am: Breakfast (on your own at your dorm, hotel or around campus)
• 07:45am – 08:00am: Opening remarks and how to use the conference social network system (yes, your iPhone/Droid/iPad can connect you up with anyone at the conference)
• 08:00am - 05:00pm Registration
• 08:30am - 09:30am Plenary Presentation
  • Edward Lakatta, MD, NIA/IRP/NIH– A general theory of the heart’s beating rate and contractility
• 10:00am - 12:00n Parallel Paper Sessions
  1. John “Wes” Cain (chair) – Cardiac Electrophysiology Modeling Part 1
     • David G. Schaeffer. PhD, Duke University, USA - Basic Notions in Modeling and Electrophysiology
     • Flavio Fenton, PhD, Cornell University, USA - Synchronization and termination of atrial and ventricular fibrillation using low-energy far-field stimulation
     • Xiaopeng Zhao, PhD, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA - A parallel framework for coupled electrical/mechanical simulation of cardiovascular dynamics
     • Wenjun Ying, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Modeling cardiac electrical dynamics with a space-time adaptive algorithm
  2. Mohamed Gad-el-Hak (chair) – The Laws of Nature Applied to Cardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary Flows
     • Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA - Scales of turbulence: from the human, to the geologic, to the cosmologic
     • Ralph W. Metcalfe, PhD, University of Houston, USA – Computational fluid dynamics: From cerebral aneurysms to reactive hyperemia
     • Kerem Pekkan, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, USA – CFD validation using particle image velocimetry
     • Amy L. Throckmorton, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA – Patient-specific cardiovascular modeling, with therapeutic intervention using blood pumps
• 12:00n - 02:00pm Lunch and Poster Session 1- Posters 1-20

• 02:00pm - 03:30pm Parallel Paper Sessions
  1. Tarynn M. Witten, PhD, FGSA (chair) – Systems Modeling of Cardiovascular/Cardiopulmonary Dynamics
     • Mette Olufsun, PhD, North Carolina State University, USA - Modeling cardiovascular and respiratory dynamics and its control
     • Vera Novak, PhD, Harvard, USA - Cerebromicrovascular disease - Modeling and imaging
     • David Goldstein, PhD, NINSD/NIH, USA - Stress, allostatic load, catecholamines, and other neurotransmitters in neurodegenerative diseases
  2. Greg Smith (chair) – Modeling Normal and Pathological Calcium Signalling Pathways in the Heart – Part 1
     • Mike Stern, MD, NIA/NIH, USA - Local Control: Why Do We Still Care?
     • Tom Shannon, Rush University, USA - Mathematical modeling Ca homeostasis and movement within the cardiac myocyte
     • Eric Sobie, PhD, USA - Refractoriness and recovery of calcium release in heart cells
• 03:30pm - 03:45pm Break
• 03:45pm - 05:30pm Parallel General Paper Sessions
  1. John Delos (chair) – General Paper Session - 1
     • Christopher A. Del Negro, PhD, William & Mary, USA – Rhythmogenic mechanisms in early-stage neural oscillators: lessons from breathing and chewing
     • Ramana Pidaparti, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA - Modeling Airflow induced Tissue Strains due to Mechanical Ventilation
     • Carolyn McGregor, PhD, UOIT, Canada - Artemis: Charting a course for intensive care clinical decision support through uncharted waters?
  2. Tarynn M. Witten (chair) – Cardiac Imaging & Risk Assessment
     • Javid Moraveji, PhD, University of South Carolina, USA - Developing 3D finite elements computational domain from serially acquired chick heart slice images
     • Douglas E. Lake, PhD, University of Virginia, USA Statistical modeling and signal processing for quantifying cardiac risk.
     • Ender Finol, PhD, Carnegie Melon University, USA - Abdominal aortic Aneurysm risk Assessment: is it Geometry or Mechanics?
  3. Eric Sobie (chair) - Modeling Normal and Pathological Calcium Signaling Pathways in the Heart – Part 2
     • Saleet Jafri, PhD, George Mason University, USA - Stochastic mechanisms of calcium homeostasis and arrhythmogenesis
     • Pasi Tavi, PhD, Kuopio University, Finland – E-C-coupling changes of human atrial myocytes induced by atrial fibrillation
     • Zhilin Qu, PhD, UCLA, USA - Sub-cellular mechanisms of calcium alternans in ventricular myocytes
     • Greg Smith, PhD, William & Mary, USA - Moment-based modeling of the bidirectional coupling between local and global calcium signals
• 06:00pm - 08:00pm Banquet Dinner and a Magic Show – The Amazing Mathemagical Pepé (Sadler Conference Center dining hall conference center). Food lines open from 6:00 – 6:50pm

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