International Conference in Modeling Health Advances ICMHA 2008

International Conference in Modeling Health Advances (ICMHA'08)

San Francisco, USA, 22-24 October, 2008

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The International Conference in Modeling Health Advances 2008 will take place in San Francisco, USA, 22-24 October, 2008.

A host of new diseases, like HIV/AIDS, BSE, Avian Flu, West Nile Virus and others have appeared on the scene during the last twenty five years and undoubtedly, more will come in the coming years. To tackle these illnesses, the cooperation of modelers, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and others, and of researchers from the medical community is absolutely essential. Modeling is important because it gives important insight into the method of treatment. In the case of HIV/AIDS, for example, mathematical modeling indicated that a combination of both protease inhibitors and reverse transcriptase inhibitors would be far more effective than any one of these two drugs.

The purpose of this conference is to bring all the people working in the area of epidemiology under one roof and encourage mutual interaction.

The conference ICMHA'08 is held under the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science WCECS 2008. The WCECS 2008 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The congress has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The last IAENG conference in 2006 has attracted more than four hundred participants from over 30 countries. All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-98671-0-2). The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic databases. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters, in IAENG journals and in edited books.

Important Dates:
Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 2 July, 2008
Camera-Ready Papers Due & Registration Deadline: 30 July, 2008
ICMHA 2008: 22-24 October, 2008

ICMHA Conference Chair and Committee Members:

Prof. B. D. Aggarwala (Chair)
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Calgary, Canada

Prof. Weizhong Dai
Professor of Mathematics, McDermott International Professor, Program of Mathematics & Statistics,
College of Engineering & Science, Louisiana Tech University, USA

Prof. Fleur T. Tehrani
Professor of Electrical Engineering
California State University, Fullerton, USA

Prof. Kambiz Vafai
Professor and Former Presidential Chair,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Riverside, USA
Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Prof. Jiunn-Lin Wu
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science,
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

ICMHA Invited Lecture 2008:

Prof. James Chin
Clinical Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkely
Former head of AIDS surveillance at the World Health Organisation
jchin@socrates.berkeley.edu

Prof. Patrick Nelson
University of Michigan
Department of Mathematics
525 East University, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1109
Board of Directors, Society for Mathematical Biology
pwn@umich.edu

ICMHA Invited Lecture (in 2006):

On Estimating HIV prevalence in North America

B. D. Aggarwala
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Calgary, Canada
aggarwal@math.ucalgary.ca
Abstract