Annual Short Course in Computational Biophotonics/ nominations for student participation due no later than June 9, 2014
Dear Biophotonics Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce our second Annual Short Course on Computational Biophotonics at UC Irvine on 04-08 August 2014. This short course builds upon the success of last year's short course, as well as three successful Virtual Photonics Workshops held in 2009, 2010, and 2011. The Short Course is enabled by NIH R25 funding from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
The weeklong short course format features lectures on computational modeling, biomedical applications, technology demonstrations and hands-on training using our open-source GUI-based Virtual Tissue Simulator platform. Each day of the short course will be dedicated to a single biomedical theme that is linked to a relevant computational modeling unit. Morning sessions are devoted to lectures on both computational modeling and the biomedical context. Afternoon sessions will be devoted to technology demonstrations, problem-based learning computational laboratories, and interactive presentations and discussion of laboratory findings. The five daily themes are (a) Light-Tissue Interactions;
(b) Optical Dosimetry; (c) Diffuse Optics; (d) Optical Imaging; and (e) Biological Microscopy. Ample social time will be available during the lunch hour and organized dinners.
We would welcome nominations from you for graduate and/or post-doctoral students who are either relatively new to Biophotonics or that you feel would benefit from attending this Short Course. Enrollment will be limited to 24 participants to facilitate active engagement and participation from all the attendees. The short course has a registration fee of $600 w/o lodging or $1000 including lodging (double occupancy with another short course attendee). NIH funding allows us to offer competitive scholarships to attendees who are US citizens or permanent residents to partially or fully offset the costs to attend.
To inform our evaluation and selection of scholarship candidates, we ask to you to submit a short recommendation letter in support of your nominee, along with a cv and a statement of purpose provided by the nominee that outlines their educational background, research interests, and rationale behind their desire to attend and participate in the short course. We would appreciate nominations for student participation no later than June 9, 2014.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us and do feel free to disseminate this announcement and attache flyer broadly. We look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
Vasan Venugopalan and Jerry Spanier
vvenugop@uci.edu jspanier@uci.edu
Co-directors, Annual Short Course in Computational Biophotonics
Link to 2013 Short Course
http://www.bli.uci.edu/vp/wiki/index.php/Computational_Biophotonics:_Short_Course_2013
Links to 2009, 2010, and 2011 Workshops
http://www.bli.uci.edu/vp/wiki/index.php/VirtualPhotonics:Workshop_2009
http://www.bli.uci.edu/vp/wiki/index.php/Virtual_Photonics:_Workshop_2010
http://www.bli.uci.edu/vp/wiki/index.php/VirtualPhotonics:Workshop_2011
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