National Grid Seminar Series

Grid-based Virtual By-pass Surgery

Prof. Peter Sloot
University of Amsterdam

9 November 2005 (Wednesday)
1600 hrs @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

We conduct computer simulation experiments in pre-operative planning of vascular reconstruction with a physician in the experimental loop. A Grid-based problem-solving environment was constructed, which offers an integrative approach for running complex interactive systems. Grid resources are used for access to medical image repositories, segmentation services, simulation of blood flow, and visualization in virtual environments of the simulated results together with medical data obtained from MRI/CT scanners.

Biodata

Prof. Dr. Peter M.A. Sloot, studied physics and chemistry, did his PhD work at the Dutch Cancer institute (NKI) and the University of Amsterdam and is currently a full Professor in Computational Sciences at the Informatics Institute of the Faculty of Science of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In his research, he focuses on theory, methods and tools for distributed mesoscopic simulation of complex systems. He is General Chair of the ICCS series of conferences on Computational Sciences and Editor in Chief of Elsevier’s science journal: FGCS:

International Journal on Grid Computing. (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs)

He initiated the first international MSc on Grid-Computing in 2002.
(http://www.science.uva.nl/international_programmes/object.cfm/objectID=C8C18799-B811-40B0-ABB458204854C958)

Professor Sloot received in 1996 an NNV distinguished professorship in computational physics and has published over 120 journal papers, 110 proceeding papers, 5 chapters in books and over 50 technical reports (http://www.science.uva.nl/research/pscs/papers/sloot.html). He supervised 15 PhD theses. His current interest is in Grid Computing and distributed simulation (see: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~sloot/)

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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.
Please email to Ms. Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg) to register a place by 1000 hours on 8 November 2005.