RIMM 2010 Program (As of May 12)
Morning
Afternoon
Thursday, June 10
8:30-9:00 : Registration

Opening / Scientific Session I
Marc Artzrouni, Chair

9:00-9:15 : Opening Remarks
9:15-10:00 : De Witt Sumners - Calculating the Secrets of Life: Mathematics in Biology and Medicine.
10:00-10:45 : Pierre Yves Geoffard - Selection and Incentive Effects in Health Insurance.

10:45-11:00 : Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 : Jack Tuszynski - Towards New Oncotherapy Approaches Conceived With the Aid of Computational and Mathematical Models.
11:45- 12:30 : Jacques Demongeot - A Mathematician in Hospital Universe. The Main Applications of Mathematics in Management and Treatment of Medical Data.
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Lunch
Session organized by: Mathematics in Medicine Study Groups (MMSG)
Marcus Tindall, Chair

2:00 - 2:20 : Presentation
2:20 - 4:00 : Case Studies:
i. Jennifer Siggers - Understanding Mechanism and Targeting Localized Treatment of Complex Heart Disturbances.
ii. Alexander Foss - A Mathematical Model for Optic Nerve Damage in Glaucoma.

4:00 - 4:30 : Coffee Break

4:30 - 5:30 : Discussion / Demonstration (participants will submit life sciences questions to the panel).
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Conference dinner (invited speakers).

Friday, June 11
Scientific Session II
Mostafa Adimy, Chair

9:00-9:45 : Francis Levi - Toward Tailoring Cancer Treatments Through Mathematical Modeling of Circadian Dynamics.
9:45-10:30 : Alfred Louis - The Role of Mathematics in Medical Imaging.

10:30-10:45 :Coffee Break

10:45-11:30 : Radomir Chabiniok - Clinical Applications of a Biomechanical Heart Model.
11:30:12:15: Stephane Liwarek - TBA
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Lunch
"Mid-Course Debriefings" by researchers funded by the Biomath programs of the French National Research Agency (ANR)
Jacques Demongeot, Chair

2:00 - 2:20 : Pierre Ferrier, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) - INTEGRATCELLS: Analyse et Modélisation Intégrative du Développement des Lymphocytes
2:20 - 2:40 : François Gueyffier, Centre d’investigation clinique, Lyon - BIMBO: Construction d’un modèle d’impact de santé publique des medicaments antihypertenseurs: du gêne à la population.
2:40 - 3:00 : Andrei Zinovyev, Service Bioinformatique de l’Institut Curie, Paris - SITCON: Modeling signal transduction induced by a chimeric oncogene.
3:00 - 3:20 : Stephan Clémençon, Telecom Paristech - VIROSCOPY: Modélisation stochastique et inférence statistique pour la propagation des maladies infectieuses transmissibles : du microscopique au macroscopique.

3:20 - 3:40 : Coffee Break

3:40 - 4:00 :Julien Barral, INRIA Rocquencourt - DMASC: Propriétés d’invariance d’échelles de signaux cardiaques, systèmes dynamiques et analyse multifractale
4:00 - 4:20 : Randall Thomas, IBISC, Evry - A systems approach for physiological integration of renal, cardiac and respiratory function.

4:20 - 5:00 : Roundtable: The Future of Complex Systems Applied to Biology and Medicine

4:20 - 5:00 : Networking cocktail ("mixer").
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Night at the Louvre Museum.

Saturday, June 12
Scientific Session III
Jean Clairambault, Chair

9:00- 9:45 : Antoine Flahaut - Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases and Decision-Making.
9:45-10:30 : Eva K. Lee - Operations Research in Medicine and Health Care.

10:30-10:45 : Coffee Break

10:45-11:30 : Siv Sivaloganathan - Mathematical Medicine: A New Emerging Synergy Between the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences.
11:30 - 12:15 : Colin Begg - The Impact of Mathematical Ideas in Cancer Research: Personal Experiences From 20 Years of Quantitative Research at a Major Cancer Center.
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Lunch

Scientific Session IV
Mostafa Adimy, Chair

2:00-2:45 : Vladimir Vainstein - Promoting the Multidisciplinary Effort for Successful Implementation of Mathematical Modeling in Clinical Medicine: Opportunities and Pitfalls.
2:45-3:30 : John Hargrove - Biomathematical Modelling: Too Much Math, Not Enough Bio?
3:30-4:15 : Bertrand Thirion - Statistical methodology for neuroimaging data analysis: detection and classification problems.
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4:15-4:30 : Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:00 : Short Presentations
5:00 - 6:00 : Closing Session: Discussions, Recap, Recommendations, etc.