CE Mini Symposium

Computational Engineering for Biotechnology and Nanotechnology

Date:

July 27th to July 28th, 2006

Venue:

CIT Auditorium [map]
Computer Centre Level 2
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Topics:

Nanofluidics device engineering
Cellular BioMEMS and its modeling
Network modeling
Reduced order modeling
Nanofluidics modeling / simulation
Dielectrophoretic cell / particle traps
Microfluidics fabrication / integration
Deformable boundary conditions

Participants:

MIT
Jongyoon 'Jay' Han (EECS/BE)
Jacob White (EECS)
Joel Voldman (EECS)
Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou (ME)
Karen Wilcox (Aero-Astro)

NUS
Boo-Cheong Khoo (ME)
Kian-Meng Lim (ME)
Gui-Rong Liu (ME)
Jian-Sheng Wang (ME)
Yu-Zong Chen (CS)
Siak-Piang Lim (ME)

NTU
Nam-Trung Nguyen (ME)
Changming Li (ME)

SIMTech
Zhengfeng Wang

IHPC
Evert Klaseboer

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Contact

E4-04-10
4 Engineering Drive 3
Singapore 117576
Tel: 6516 4787
Fax: 6775 2920
Email: smabox3@nus.edu.sg

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Tentative Agenda (List of Speakers)

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Date	Time	Details
Day 1 Thursday, July 27th
	9:00~9:10am	Jacob White (MIT) or Boo Cheong Khoo (NUS) "Overview of CE SMA-II program"
		Session 1: Engineering and Modeling at the Nanoscale: Nanofluidics
	9:10~9:35am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Jongyoon Han (MIT) "New Engineering Opportunities and Challenges in Nanofluidics" (tentative)
	9:35~10:00 am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Lian Hing Tan (SMA-II) and Laura Proctor (MIT) "Modeling of concentration polarization in nanofluidic devices" (tentative)
	10:00~10:25 am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Dmitry Vasilyev and Jacob White (MIT) "Extracting Reduced Order Models of Microfluidic Channels" (presented by J. White)
	10:00~10:45am	Coffee Break
	10:45~11:10am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Jianping Fu (MIT) "Anisotropic Nanofluidic filter array for continuous-flow biomolecule separation"
	11:10~11:35am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Duong-Hong Duc (NUS) "Modeling of molecular filtration in nanofluidic sieving systems"
	11:35am~12pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Zirui Li (NUS) "Modified SPH method for simulating molecular filtration in nanofluidic sieving systems"
	12:00~12:25pm (2o min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Nam-Trung Nguyen (NTU) "SU-8 as material for polymeric microdevices"
	12:25~1:30pm	Lunch Break
		Session 2: Engineering and Modeling at the Microscale: Massively parallel Cell traps and Filters
	1:30~1:55pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Joel Voldman (MIT) "New Opportunities in Cellular BioMEMS" (tentative)
	1:55~2:20pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Le Duc Vinh (NUS) "An Immersed Interface Method for Viscous Flow and Deformable Boundary Interaction"
	2:20~2:45pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Li Changming (NTU) "Microfluidic bionanosystems"
	2:45~3:10pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Cui Haihang, Research Fellow (NUS) "Design and Experimentation of particle trap"
	3:10~3:30pm	Coffee Break
	3:30~3:55pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Wang Zhengfeng (SIMTech) "Platform Integration for Hybrid Microelectrofluidic Systems"
	3:55~4:20pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Lim Kian-Meng "Accelerated boundary element method for Laplace and Poisson problems"
	4:20~4:45pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Brian Taff (MIT) "Cell Trap Array" (tentative)
	4:45~5:10pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Wang Shengyin (NUS) "Large deformation analysis of red blood cells in a microfluidic channel"
	5:10~5:30pm	Coffee / Snack-hour social / Wrap-up discussion / Interaction
	6:00pm~???	(Optional : Social hours with SMA students (current/new) over dinner)
Day 2 Friday, July 28th
		Session 3: New challenges and opportunities in modeling and simulations
	9:00~9:25am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Karen Wilcox (MIT) "Model-Constrained Optimization for Reduction of Large-Scale Systems"
	9:25~9:50am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Bo S. Kim (MIT) "Biological Networks" (tentative)
	9:50~10:15am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Jaydeep Bardhan (MIT) "to be determined"
	10:15~10:35am	Coffee Break
	10:35~11:00am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Evert Klaseboer (IHPC) "Bubble dynamics" (tentative)
	11:00~11:25am (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Shihhsien Kuo and Jacob White (MIT) "Higher Order Methods for Analyzing Biomolecules in Ionic Solutions" (presented by J. White)
	11:25am~11:50pm (20 min talk / 5 min Q&A)	Carlos Coelho and Jacob White (MIT) "to be determined"
	11:50~12:00pm	Wrap up