Event 1 Graz Austria 2007
Biomedical Modeling and Cardiovascular-Respiratory
Control : Theory and Practice.
Organizers: M. Bachar, J. Batzel, and F. Kappel
July 22 to August 4, 2007
The event web page can be found HERE
Scientific Focus
The focus of the event will be on exploring
the theory and practice of modeling physiological control
systems with a primary application of studying clinical problems related to
the cardiovascular and respiratory control systems. Important clinical
conditions that can be represented as control problems include short-term
blood pressure control, blood volume control during hemorrhage or
hemodialysis, transfusion treatment regimens, and sleep apnea. A deeper
quantitative understanding of control processes in cardiovascular-respiratory
physiology is key for developing new and more effective treatment methods and
for improving diagnosis.
Educational Focus
The school portion of the event will focus on providing the school participant
with an understanding of techniques in theory and practice relevaant for
modeling physiological control systems and developing useful applications to
problems in the clinical setting.
Instructors will include mathematicians, bio-engineers, and life scientists from academia and industry as well as medical clinicians. This represents a diverse interdisciplinary group of teachers. These teachers, as researchers currently involved in modeling, will provide insight into key issues and problems from multidimensional viewpoints and as well as insight into the complex interactions that exist in many physiological systems. The invited researchers from academia and industry who will attend the workshop at the end of the school will provide valuable insight into practical matters of modeling such as problems with data acquisition, areas of promising future work, and particular aspects and constraints associated with research sponsored by corporate funds.
Event Structure
The event will be held at Schloss Seggau near Graz, Austria.
The school component is aimed at PhD and Post-Doc students.
The last 3 days (of 14 total days) of the summer school are merged with a
scientific workshop allowing students to meet a significant number of
current researchers in the field. Presentations and round-table discussions
will be included in the workshop.
Complex Systems
The cardiovascular control system includes an intricate array of interconnected control loops which are linked also to the respiratory control system. The quantitative prediction of the complex interactions of these multiple control loops pathways would be extremely desirable in clinical situations. Such models, sufficiently detailed to capture these complex interactions raises difficult problems for application to individuals given the large number of parameters. As the initial event in this sequence, the primary themes will be to focus on the development of modeling techniques for physiological systems, and issues in the adaptation of such models to the clinical setting and hence will focus on new approaches for deterministic parameter identification.
