Uitnodiging: Kunnen supercomputers helpen bij de bestrijding van de volgende pandemie?

Op 2 december organsieert CompBioMed (het EU-project dat zich richt op het gebruik en de ontwikkeling van computationele methoden voor biomedische toepassingen) een evenement in het Eyemuseum in Amsterdam rond het gebruik van computational medicine-oplossingen om de pandemie aan te pakken.

Het event start met de première van een nieuwe film die visualiseert hoe supercomputers kunnen helpen bij het bestrijden van de volgende pandemie. Daarna volgt een paneldiscussie met vier sprekers, waaronder de auteurs van het binnenkort te verschijnen boek Virtual You.

Het event is gratis toegankelijk voor geïnteresseerden uit het onderzoeksveld en het grote publiek. 

We nodigen u van harte uit hierbij aanwezig te zijn. Een interview met de sprekers behoort tot de mogelijkheden.  

Met hartelijke groet,

Lonneke Walk, Coöperatie communicatie SURF

Datum: vrijdag 2 december - 16.00 uur

Locatie: Amsterdam EyeMuseum   

Event details: https://www.compbiomed.eu/premier-at-eyemuseum/

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Meer informatie (Engelstalig) over de host en sprekers: 

Event Host

Roger Highfield (London Science Museum) was the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph for two decades and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011. Today, he is the Science Director of the Science Museum Group, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a visiting professor of public engagement at the Dunn School, University of Oxford, and Department of Chemistry, UCL, and a member of the UKRI-Medical Research Council.

Sprekers 

Prof Peter V. Coveney (UCL) holds a chair in Physical Chemistry, is an Honorary Professor in Computer Science at University College London, a Professor in Applied High Performance Computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and Professor Adjunct at Yale University School of Medicine (USA). He is Director of the Centre for Computational Science (CCS) at UCL. Coveney is active in a broad area of interdisciplinary research including condensed matter physics and chemistry, materials science, as well as life and medical sciences in all of which high performance computing plays a major role.

Dr Mariano Vazquez (BSC) is Chief Technical and Scientific Officer at ELEM Biotech, a start-up company spun off from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Mariano holds a PhD in computational physics from the Technical University of Barcelona, Spain. He co-leads the Alya Dev Team, a 50 strong research group who develop their main modelling tool. His research interests are in cardiac computational modelling, computational mechanics and high-performance computing.

Dr. Gábor Závodszky (UvA) is an assistant professor of high-performance multi-scale computing at the University of Amsterdam and assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology. His research focuses on designing and developing HPC models targeting biomedical challenges, primarily focusing on cardiovascular diseases. He leads the development of two major biomedical codes: HemoCell, the open-source cellular blood flow simulation framework, and VascuTreat, a medical device deployment simulation which is currently being used as clinical decision making support tool.

Prof. Andrea Townsend-Nicholson(UCL) holds a chair in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in the Division of Biosciences (Structural & Molecular Biology) at University College London. Having started her research career at the University of Toronto in Canada, she was appointed in 2001 as a member of academic staff at UCL in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, following three and a half years of postdoctoral study in UCL’s Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology and eighteen months as a British Heart Foundation Research Fellow in the Department of Physiology.