Promising Directions in Imaging, Therapy Planning and Inverse Problems
November 3-9, 2008, The Huangguoshu National Park of China, Guizhou

General Information

The Huangguoshu International Interdisciplinary Conference on Biomedical Mathematics- Promising Directions in Imaging, Therapy Planning and Inverse Problems will be held November 3-9, 2008 at the Huangguoshu National Park of China, Guizhou, China. The conference will be of an interdisciplinary nature and bring together scientists from several fields of knowledge. The cross-fertilization that will be achieved in this way will contribute to new ideas, methods, and techniques for the solution of important real-world problems in biomedical imaging, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and related areas.

We cordially invite researchers from either academy or industry and graduate students in the fields of biomedical imaging, IMRT, optimization, physics, medicine, biology and adjacent fields to participate in the conference.

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Chair and Co-Chairs

Professor Ming Jiang (chair, Peking University)
Professor Yair Censor (co-chair, University of Haifa)
Professor Ge Wang (co-chair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)

International Scientific Advisory Committee

Dr. Ashok Amin (Carilion Health System)
Professor Simon Arridge (University College London)
Professor Heinz Bauschke (University of British Columbia)
Professor Adi Ben-Israel (The State University of New Jersey)
Professor James A. Brink (Yale University)
Professor Charles Byrne (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Professor Patrick L. Combettes (Pierre & Marie Curie University)
Professor Tommy Elfving (Linkoping University)
Professor Jeffrey Fessler (University of Michigan)
Professor Mark Langer (Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center)
Professor Frank Natterer (Munster University)
Professor Franz Pfeiffer (Paul Scherrer Institut & Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Professor Brian W. Pogue (Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth)
Professor Yi Rao (Peking University)
Dr. Belinda Seto (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering)
Professor Eva M. Sevick (Baylor College of Medicine)
Professor Michael Vannier (University of Chicago)
Professor Max Viergever (University Medical Center Utrecht)
Professor Yangbo Ye (University of Iowa)
Professor Jinming Yu (Shandong Cancer Hospital)
Dr. Yantian Zhang (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering)
Dr. Zhaotian Zhang (National Natural Science Foundation of China)

International Program Committee

Professor Guillaume Bal (Columbia University)
Professor James Balter (University of Michigan)
Professor Thomas Bortfeld (Harvard Medical School )
Professor James M. Galvin (Thomas Jefferson University)
Professor Horst W. Hamacher (Universitat Kaiserslautern)
Dr. Bruno De Man (CT Systems and Applications Laboratory, GE Global Research)
Professor Alexander Katsevich (University of Central Florida)
Dr. Seung Wook Lee (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Professor Robert Lewitt (University of Pennsylvania)
Professor Tony Lomax (The Paul Scherrer Institute)
Professor Alfred K. Louis (Universitat des Saarlandes)
Professor Atsushi Momose (The University of Tokyo)
Professor Uwe Oelfke (German Cancer Research Center )
Dr. Kui Ren (University of Texas at Austin)
Dr. Jorge Ripoll (Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser)
Professor John Schotland (University of Pennsylvania)
Professor Reinhard W. Schulte (Loma Linda University Medical Center)
Dr. Subhadra Srinivasan (Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth)
Professor George Starkschall (The University of Texas)
Professor Wolfgang Tome (University of Wisconsin)
Dr. Alexei V. Trofimov (Harvard Medical School)
Professor Lei Xing (Stanford University School of medicine)
Professor Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine)
Dr. Yu Zou (Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA, Inc.)

Organization Committee

Professor Tie Zhou (co-chair, Peking University)
Dr. Xiaoyun Xiong (co-chair, National Natural Science Foundation of China)
Dr. Lingyin Zhao (co-chair, Guizhou Huangguoshu Tourism Group)
Professor Wei Wei (Guizhou University)
Dr. Guangying Zhu (Peking University School of Oncology)
Mr. Huan Chen (Guizhou Huangguoshu Tourism Group)

Conference Secretariat

Xin Jiang (Peking University)
Caifang Wang (Peking University)
Bin Zhang (Peking University)
Yuanzheng Si (Peking University)
Shengkun Shi (Peking University)
Yu Zhou (Peking University)
Deepak Bharkhada (Wake Forest University)

Scientific Auspices and Sponsors

The Conference will be under the scientific auspices of the Mathematical Center of Ministry of Education of China at Peking University in Beijing, the Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computation (CCMSC) at the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, the School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, US and Guizhou University in Guiyang.

Contact Information

E-mail address
For general inquiries, please contact:

Telephone numbers:
+86-853-3596621
+86-15870150999 (Lingyin Zhao, Huangguoshu National Park Administration Commission)
+86-10-62756251 (Tie Zhou, Peking University)
+86-13985316813 (Leo Xie, Huangguoshu Tourism Group)
+86-853-3592109 (Mountain Tong, Huangguoshu Tourism Group)
+86-10-62756797 (Ming Jiang, Peking University)

Fax numbers:
+86-853-3596621
+86-853-3592611

Mail address:
Professor Tie Zhou

School of Mathematical Sciences
Peking University
Beijing 100871
P. R. China
Dr. Lingyin Zhao
Huangguoshu National Park
Anshun 561202, Guizhou
P. R. China