2009 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting to be held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Oct 7-10, 2009

BMES年度秋季会议是由生物医学工程学会(BMES)主办的一项多学科科学活动。今年的会议也是由其他几个协会共同主办的，如惠特克国际研究员和学者计划等。本次年会将于2009年10月7日至10日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡举行。会议主题为《跨越生物、工程、医学三江》，将突出生物医学工程作为生物、医学、工程交汇点的重要性。预计将有来自世界各地的2000多名代表出席会议。BMES会议每年汇聚一次学术领袖、学生和业界代表。在这次会议上，计划在没有其他活动的情况下，同时安排两名质量极高的全体演讲者，以便所有与会者都将参加这些讲座和几个研讨会。会议形式将是12个平行的口头陈述会议。大约2/3的被接受的论文将以海报的形式提交。一本小册子将向会议的参与者提供计划的详细信息。所有技术介绍都将是一页的摘要，并以光盘格式汇编，分发给所有注册者。这张光盘的副本也将提供给所有共同赞助的社团。裁谈会将作为会议的唯一技术性议事程序。向国家科学基金会申请的15,000美元预算是为了帮助降低学生注册费，帮助偿还部分学生旅费、学生论文竞赛奖励，以及支付部分计划小册子和CD的出版费用。

0946267Borovetz The BMES Annual Fall Meeting is a multidisciplinary scientific event sponsored by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). This year's meeting is also co-sponsored by several other societies such as the Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program, among many others. This annual meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from October 7-10, 2009. The conference theme, "Bridging the Three Rivers of Biology, Engineering and Medicine", will highlight the importance of Biomedical Engineering as the intersection of Biology, Medicine and Engineering. Attendance to the meeting is expected to be more than 2000 delegates from all over the world. The BMES meetings bring together academic leaders, students, and industrial representatives once a year. At this conference, two extremely high quality plenary speakers are scheduled at a time with no other activities such that all conference participants would attend these talks and several workshops as well. The conference format will be 12 parallel sessions of oral presentations. Approximately 2/3 of the accepted papers will be presented in poster format. A booklet will provide program details to the participants of the conference. All technical presentations will be one-page abstracts and compiled in a CD format, distributed to all registrants. Copies of this CD will also be provided to all cosponsoring societies. The CD will serve as the only technical proceedings of the meeting. The budget request of $15,000 to NSF is to aid in reducing student registration fees, help in reimburse some of the student travel costs, student paper competition awards, and to cover in part the publication costs of the program booklet and CD.