ESF workshop CARDIAC DYNAMICS

International Organizing Committee:

A. Zahradníková (Slovakia), Scientific Organizer

M. Bär (Germany)

B. Echebarria (Spain)

S. Luther (Germany)

I. Zahradník (Slovakia)

Keynote lectures

Markus Bär		Wave instabilities in models of excitable heart tissue – from alternans to ventricular fibrillation
		Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
Elizabeth Cherry		Alternative Mechanisms for Alternans in Cardiac Tissue
		Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca, NY, USA
Piero Colli-Franzone		Mathematical aspects and numerical methods for reaction-diffusion modeling in eletrocardiology
		Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Geneviève Dupont		Modeling the spatio-temporal organization of cytosolic Ca^2+ in non-excitable cells
		Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Blas Echebarria		Properties of cardiac alternans: the effect of supernormal conduction velocity
		Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Martin Falcke		Stochasticity in cellular models of calcium signaling
		Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Flavio Fenton		Termination of Atrial Fibrillation Using Pulsed Low-energy Far-field Stimulation; A Computational and Optical Mapping Study
		Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca, NY, USA
Stephan Luther		Arrhythmias at the level of whole heart
		MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen, Germany
Alexander Panfilov		Electrical heterogeneity in ventricular arrhytmia – from cell to tissue
		Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Gernot Plank		Bidomain modelling of propagation in cardiac tissue
		Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Yohannes Shiferaw		Electrical and calcium-handling aspects of alternans: from cell to tissue
		California State University, Northridge, CA, USA
Pawel Swietach		Interplay between pH, Ca, and E-C coupling at the cellular level
		Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Andrew Trafford		Calcium homeostasis and arrhythmia
		The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Edward White		Mechano-electric feedback at cell and tissue level
		University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Ivan Zahradník		Models as tools for experimental cell research: from molecule to cell
		Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Alexandra Zahradníková		Modelling excitation-contraction coupling at cellular and molecular level
		Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia