Modelization and Computational Science Lab

New Grants

New NSF Grant, 08/01/08-08/31/10, $446K

M.Garbey (co-Pi) with I.Pavlidis (Pi, CS@UH) and B.Bass (co-Pi - Chair Dept of surgery, Methodist Hospital). Do Nintendo Surgeons Defy Stress? The primary hypothesis of this project is that the best way to study stress is through unobtrusive quantification of facial physiology and while people are engaging in critical and challenging tasks, such as surgeon training. This project aims to: 1) Develop an integrated computational suite of unobtrusive stress quantification methods that are anchored on facial physiology. 2) Correlate physiological manifestations of stress on the face with observation of expressions to reveal the linkage between stress and a palette of emotions. 3) Understand the role of stress in performance of critical human tasks, starting with surgeon training. The contribution of the MCS lab will be is on Infrared image base simulation and bioheat modeling. .

Partner University Fund, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, France, 09/01/08-09/01/11, $240K

M.Garbey Pi as the US partner with B.Bass (co-Pi), M. de Mathelin (Pi as the French partner) and C. Collet (co-PI). Computational Surgery and Dual Training Abstract: A partnership between the Department of Computer Science at University of Houston and the Department of Surgery at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute is proposed to liaison with the University of Strasbourg to develop a program in computational surgery with dual training. The intent of this program is to bring computer scientists together with surgeons to enhance the ability of both to improve interventional procedures surgeries.

DOD, 09/01/08-09/01/09, $140K

M.Garbey co-Pi with S.Shah (Pi), E.Gabriel (cio-Pi) and R.Zeng (co-Pi). DURIP: Heterogeneous Smart Camera Networks for Collaborative Missions. Abstract: The goal of this Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) proposal is to acquire hardware equipment to enable research projects and to enhance the research related education capabilities in three scientific areas: wireless networking, computer vision, and parallel processing. The overall research goal enabled by this equipment infrastructure is to develop a smart camera network system for collaborative automated object recognition and tracking across large geographical spaces.

CNRS & Cemagref, 09/01/08-09/01/09, Euro 25K

M.Garbey co-Pi with C.Mony (Pi - Univ. of Rennes 1) and A.El Hamidi (co-PI - Univ. of La Rochelle). Computational ecology applied to the optimum engineering design of unfertilized grass strip Abstract: Grass strip have demonstrated their positive benefit to limit pollution in agriculture. Systematic modeling of clonal plant growth has been done with a collaboration between C.Mony specialist in Ecology and myself. The new contribution of my group is to perform the individual base model optimum design with volunteer computing. This project will require the computation of thousand of computers for several months. Reduced model based on differential equation, that can be used in the field, will be then best fitted by A.El Hamidi's research group.

Recent Events

September 11-12, 2008

The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, September 11-12, 2008 ,INRIA Grenoble, France. Grand Amphitheater, Thursday, September 11, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m., Talk by Marc Garbey on: Volunteer computing for ecology: the Virtual Prairie BOINC project .

May 19-22, 2008

Parallel CFD 2008, May 19-22, 2008 Lyon, France. Monday 19th (Morning), Parallel Simulation and Optimization of a Mini Vertical Axis Turbine, M. Garbey, M. Smaoui, C. Picard Monday 19th (Afternoon), On a Parallel Computing Environment for Endovascular Surgery, M. Garbey, C. Picard, V. Hilford Tuesday 20th, (Afternoon), Performance Analysis of the Parallel Aitken-Additive Schwarz Waveform Relaxation, Hatem Ltaief, Marc Garbey Wesnesday 21th (Morning), A Parallel Immersed Boundary method for blood-like suspension flow simulations, F. Pacull, Marc Garbey Thursday 22th (Afternoon), Parallel Multiscale Software for Fluid Flow- Agent Based Hybrid Models, M. Garbey, C. Mony

May 18-21, 2008

7th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, May 18-21, 2008 University of Texas. Arlington, USA. Special Session 24: Mathematical Problems in Cancer Research, Sunday, May 18, 4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m., Talk by David Thanoon on: Breast Cancer and Thermal Imaging, Marc Garbey, Ioannis Pavlidis, David Thanoon (University of Houston, USA), Barbara Bass (Methodist Hospital).

April 09-11, 2008

ISCA 23rd International Conference on Computers and their Applications, April 9-11, 2008 Cancun, Mexico. Computers In Health, Wednesday, April 9, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Talk by Christophe Picard on: Toward an Intelligent Data and Visualization Desk for Endovascular Surgery, M. Garbey, C. Picard, V. Hilford, and S. Vadakuttu (University of Houston, USA).

March 14, 2008

Ph. D Defence of Bilel Hadri on Efficient Parallel Computation to Simulate Blood Flow, Room 232, PGH at 3:00 pm. Link

February 20-21, 2008

Workshop on Recent Progress in Front Propagation and Applications., Bordeaux, France. Dr Marc Garbey will give an invited talk on Immersed Boundary Simulation at the workshop dedicated to Brauner 60's birthday.

January 07-10, 2008

Presentation of Bilel Hadri at 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada. An Hemodynamic Application on a Distributed Computing Environment, B. Hadri, H. Ltaief, M. Garbey.

Collaborations

3 years January 2008 - December 2010

Affiliated Team Project with INRIA-MC2, France.(01/2008 - 12/2010) This 3 years project sponsored by INRIA is dedicated to Parallel Computing for Biology and Medicine. The Team Inria/MC2 (Bordeaux - France) of Pr. Thierry Colin has developed innovative computational models for micro-fluidic applications as well as tumor cancer growth. Our lab has an extensive experience in parallel computing for reaction-diffusion and fluid dynamic problem applied to computational medicine problems. The objective of this international cooperation is to benefit the synergy of these two teams to make dramatic progress toward numerically efficient multiscale micro-fluidic and cancer tumor simulations.