25-08-2010 WE-Heraeus Workshop "Biomedical Modeling and Visualization" at Jacobs University in Bremen from August 12-20, 2010

The modeling and simulation of bio-physical and medical processes is a growing field of research at the interfaces of physics, mathematics, biology and engineering.

Among other things, processes that appear in the progression of diseases are analyzed. The comprehensive workshop, which was funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, and co-organized by the Fraunhofer MEVIS Professors Hahn and Preusser, took place within the Summer Program 2010 of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (ICTS) at the Jacobs University in Bremen between August 12 and 20.

The Workshop consists of three parts:

• Uncertainty Visualization (August 12-13)
• Modeling and Simulation of Excitation Waves in Cardiac Tissue (August 16-17)
• Hierarchical Materials and Multi scale-Modeling in Biology (August 19-20)

Nineteen speakers from Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden referred about their work in different fields of application, among those Gil Bub (University of Oxford), Olaf Dössel (U Karlsruhe), Claes Lundström (U Linköping), Thomas Speck (U Freiburg).

More than 60 students and scientists from various disciplinessuch as theoretical physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics as well as from life sciences attended the workshop.

In addition to active discussions on current research issues and their applicability in daily clinical routine, the participants had the opportunity to collect hands-on experience in a tutorial. An on-site visit of Fraunhofer MEVIS and the MeVis Medical Solutions AG provided the scientists insights into current research on software systems for image-based medicine and in the implementation of mathematical models and algorithms in medical products.