Invited Lectures 2016

Columbia University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
500 West 120th Street, Mail Code 4703
220 S.W. Mudd
New York, NY 10027-6699, USA

Keywords:
Introduction and application of mixture theory to growth and remodeling of biological tissues; governing equations for mass and momentum balance in the presence of reactions; residual stresses from growth; examples from cartilage tissue engineering

University of Pavia
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
via Ferrata 3
27100 Pavia, Italy

Keywords:
Nonlinear finite element method with a focus on biomechanics; development of computational tools for support device design and procedures such as surgical operation planning; simulation of transcatheter aortic valve implantation, stents and aortic endografting

Graz University of Technology
Institute of Biomechanics
Stremayrgasse 16/2
8010 Graz, Austria

Keywords:
Introduction to soft tissue biomechanics; arterial walls in health and disease; multiscale modeling of arterial walls considering collagen fiber dispersion and recruitment; mechanics of the myocardium – recent modeling and simulation; mechanics of cross-linked actin network

University of Auckland
Bioengineering Institute
70 Symonds Street
Auckland 1010, New Zealand

Keywords:
Introduction to CellML, OpenCOR, Physiome Model Repository; models of action potential propagation in neurons and heart with membrane ion channels; models of EC coupling, calcium transport, myofilament mechanics in the heart; models of signal transduction pathways; multiphysics, multiscale modeling in the 3D heart

University of Glasgow
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QW, UK

Keywords:
Essential ingredients of continuum mechanics; nonlinear elasticity theory; constitutive modeling of soft fibrous materials; influence of fiber structure, including orientation dispersion, on elasticity of artery walls; residual stresses and their effect on the elastic response of arteries

Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Whitaker Hall, Campus Box 1097, One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA

Keywords:
Mechanics of growth and morphogenesis in living systems; heart, brain, and eye development; mechanical feedback in the embryo; specific topics in cardiovascular biomechanics are covered