Mini-Symposia for the Second Joint EMBS-BMES Conference

描述(由申请者提供)：我们建议组织五个与IEEE医学与生物工程学会(EMBS)和生物医学工程学会(BMES)的第二次联合会议的具体科学主题相关的特别小型研讨会。会议将于2002年10月23日至26日在德克萨斯州休斯敦的威斯汀广场酒店举行。这些小型研讨会将包括13位主要研究人员的演讲，并将突出会议特定主题中的具体主题。将组织的小型研讨会包括：纳米医学、生物微机械的新趋势、功能成像的进展和神经工程的进展(将包括两个小型研讨会)。这些小型研讨会展示了新兴技术的利用，以及最先进的生物工程活动的综合方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to organize five special mini-symposia associated with specific scientific themes of the 2nd Joint Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) of the IEEE and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). The Conference will be held at the Westin Galleria Hotel, Houston, TX on 23-26 October 2002. These mini-symposia will contain lectures by 13 leading investigators and will serve to highlight specific topics within a particular Conference theme. The mini-symposia to be organized are: Nanomedicine, New Trends in BioMEMS, Advances in Functional Imaging, and Advances in Neural Engineering (which will include two mini-symposia). These mini-symposia illustrate the utilization of emergent technologies, as well as the integrative methodologies of state-of -the-art bioengineering activities.