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Welcome to the home page for the Third UBM South Regional
Conference, a primarily undergraduate conference in Mathematics and Biology to
be hosted by the Departments of Computer & Mathematical Sciences and of
Natural Sciences at University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas. The
conference will be held on Friday,
October 12, 2012 on the campus of University of Houston-Downtown.
This is the third time that we are hosting this conference, and we
would like to invite all NSF-UBM grantees and other undergraduate mathematical
biology research programs to participate.
We would also like to set up the following tradition: there will be no
registration fees, and all talks will be limited to 15-20 minutes (except the
keynote speaker having 40 minutes). Undergraduate students are particularly
encouraged to participate. Those wishing to speak should submit a title and
short abstract (plain text, MS Word document, or LaTex
text file) by Monday, October 1 to YoonJ@uhd.edu.
Click here for the abstracts from last year’s conference.
If you have any
question(s), please send requests for information to
Edwin Tecarro
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston-Downtown
Fax: (713) 221-8086
Phone: (713) 221-8655
E-Mail: TecarroE@uhd.edu
Please see UHD’s Map and Directions.
If you are driving to the meeting, we have reserved spaces in our
visitor’s parking lot. To access the visitor’s parking lot, go north on
Academic Building, A 300 (Special Events
Room)
A block of rooms has been reserved at Marriott Residence Inn (904 Dallas St,
Houston, TX 77002).
Alok Sutradhar,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Plastic Surgery
Assistant Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ohio State University
Email:
alok.sutradhar@osumc.edu
Title: Role of
Topology Optimization in Reconstructive Surgery
Restoring normal
function and appearance after massive facial injuries with bone loss is an
important unsolved problem in surgery. Current methods are limited to heuristic
ad hoc design of bone replacements by the operating surgeon at the time of
surgery. This problem might be addressed by incorporating a computational
method known as topology optimization into routine surgical planning. Topology
optimization is a structural optimization method that combines a numerical
solution method e.g., the finite element method (FEM), with an optimization
algorithm to find the optimal material distribution inside a given domain. It
determines which portions will have material and which will have voids. This
technique has the potential to guide and clarify in which places skeletal
materials are necessary to withstand the expected loads (e.g., for mastication)
and support soft tissue structures, specialized organs (e.g., orbital
contents), and prosthetic devices. We performed a three-dimensional topology
optimization to design bone replacements. The final solution to meet functional
requirements may be shaped differently than the natural human bone but be
optimized for functional needs sufficient to support full restoration using a
combination of soft tissue repair and synthetic prosthetics. Topological
optimization for designing facial bone tissue replacements has the potential to
improve current clinical methods and provide essential enabling technology to
translate generic bone tissue engineering methods into patient-specific
solutions.
Friday, October 12, 2012
12:00—1:00 p.m. Registration (3rd Floor,
Academic Building –outside Room A300)
1:00 — 1:15 p.m. Welcome Remarks
1:20 — 2:20 p.m. Keynote Speaker (Dr. Alok Sutradhar)
2:20 — 3:20 p.m. Contribution Talks (I)
3:20— 3:40 p.m. Coffee Break
3:40 — 5:40 p.m. Contribution Talks (II)
6:00 pm. Banquet
Click here for schedule
of contributed talks.
Click here for
abstracts of all talks
Dinner party will be held on
Friday (October 12) evening at “Macondo”,
208 Travis St., Houston, TX 77002 713.229.8323 at 6:00 pm.
Page last updated October 9, 2012