WORKSHOP ON MAPPING AND CONTROL OF COMPLEX ARRHYTHMIAS

October 29 - November 1, 2000

Lecture room #6214 (6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)

HORAIRE/SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2000
17:00 - 19:00 Registration
(room 5345, 5th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
Reception
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2000
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
(room 5345, 5th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
(Chair: L. Glass)
09:00 - 09:45 Stanley Nattel
"Challenges in drug therapy of AF: role of experimental and theoretical approaches in improving treatment"
09:45 - 10:30 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
10:30 - 11:15 Alan Garfinkel
"Restitution and Cardiac Fibrillation"
11:15 - 12:00 Alain Karma
"Dynamics of Alternans in One-Dimensional Tissue Geometries: Role of Restitution, Electrotonic Effects, and Boundaries"
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
(Chair: A. Shrier)
13:30 - 14:15 Michael Guevara, Aoxiang Xu, Humberto Arce, Hortensia Gonzalez
"Alternans, higher-order rhythms, and spiral-wave reentry in an ionic model of a sheet of ischemic ventricular muscle"
14:15 - 15:00 L. Joshua Leon
"A Model Study of The Dynamics of Atrial Fibrillation"
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
15:30 - 16:15 Daniel Gauthier
"Progress toward controlling fibrillation in sheep atria using small electrical stimuli and a chaos-control protocol"
16:15 - 17:00 Ray Ideker
"Critical Points and Defibrillation"
BANQUET - TBA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2000
(Chair: A. Garfinkel)
09:00 - 09:45 Yoram Rudy
"From genome to physiome: Integrative models of cardiac excitation and arrhythmia"
09:45 - 10:30 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
10:30 - 11:15 Alain Vinet
"Many ways to kill reentry: Insight from ionic and low dimensional models"
11:15 - 12:00 Flavio Fenton
"Multiple Mechanisms Of Spiral Wave Breakup In A Model Of Cardiac Action Potential"
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
(Chair: Y. Rudy)
13:30 - 14:15 Jacques Beaumont
"From membrane channels to vortex dynamics"
14:15 - 15:00 Christian Zemlin and A. V. Panfilov
"Modeling wave propagation in anatomical models of the heart"
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
15:30 - 16:15 Nathalie Virag
"Simulation and study of arrhythmia in a computer model of human atria"
16:15 - 17:00 Guillaume Rousseau
"Geometrical transition and control of AF"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000

(Chair: N. Trayanova)
09:00 - 09:45 Ken Stein
"Atrial anatomy and the physiology of arrhythmias"
09:45 - 10:30 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
10:30 - 11:15 Valentin Krinsky
"Intracardiac diagnostic catheter"
11:15 - 12:00 Alvin Shrier
"Optical Mapping of Complex Dynamics in Cardiac Tissue Culture"
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
(Chair: M. Guevara)
13:30 - 14:15 David P. Christini
"Clinical Nonlinear-Dynamical Arrhythmia Control"
14:15 - 15:00 Natalia Trayanova
"Shock-induced Arrhythmogenesis"
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
15:30 - 16:15 James P. Collins
"Human Balance out of Equilibrium: Characterization and Control of Motor Arrhythmias"
16:15 - 17:00 Anne Beuter and Michele Titcombe
"Control of Parkinsonian tremor with deep brain stimulation"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER1, 2000
(Chair: A. Karma)
09:00 - 09:45 Vincent Hakim
"Scroll Wave Instabilities"
09:45 - 10:30 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
10:30 - 11:15 Harold Hastings
"From alternans to cardiac chaos: dynamics at the onset of fibrillation and applications to the design of anti-arrhythmic drugs"
11:15 - 12:00 Discussion
"Nonlinear dynamics will be useful for designing medical therapy"