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EMBC'09: 31st International Conference of the IEEE EMB Society

To learn more, visit the EMBC'09 Website.

EMBC'09 Student Activities Program

Are you planning to attend the EMBC'09 meeting in Minneapolis this year? Then don't forget to take a glance at the Student Activities Program.

Meet your bioengineering colleagues from all over the world
Have lunch with the world leaders in the field
Learn how to succeed and how to negotiate your first job in academia or private sector
Get valuable tips on how to improve your technical writing skills and how to deliver the ideal scientific presentation

Thu, Sept. 3rd, 2009

9:40 - 11:10	Student Paper Competition: Session I
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch with Leaders I
1:30 - 15:00	Student Paper Competition: Session II
16:40 - 18:10	Student Paper Competition: Session III
19:30 - 22:30	Welcome Dinner & Awards Ceremony

Fri, Sept. 4th, 2009

9:40 - 11:10	How to Deliver an Oral Presentation
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch with Leaders II
13:30 - 15:00	Meet the Editors
16:40 - 18:10	Technical Writing and Manuscript Preparation
18:30 - 21:30	IEEE EMBS GOLD & Student Networking Reception

Sat, Sept. 5th, 2009

9:40 - 11:10	Negotiating your First BME Job: Academia, Private Sector, Govenrment
12:30 - 13:30	Luncheon: Women in Bioengineering and Health Informatics
13:30 - 15:00	Women in Bioengineering and Health Informatics
16:40 - 18:10	Pathways to Success in BME: Early Career Development

EMBC'09 Student Paper Competition Finalists: Congratulations!!!

Geographic Finalists

Name	Location	Paper Title
Johnny L. G. Nielsen	Denmark - EUROPE	Enhanced EMG Signal Processing for Simultaneous and Proportional Myoelectric Control
Peng Du	New Zealand - ASIA PACIFIC	Automated detection of gastric slow wave events and estimation of propagation velocity vector fields from serosal high-resolution mapping
Julián D. Arias-Londoño	Columbia - LATIN AMERICA	Complexity Analysis of Pathological Voices by means of Hidden Markov Entropy measurements
Paulo A. Garcia	USA - NORTH AMERICA	Pilot Study of Irreversible Electroporation for Intracranial Surgery

Open Finalists

Name	Location	Paper Title
Natasha Alves	Ontario Canada	Classification of the mechanomyogram: its potential as a multifunction access pathway
Justin Baker	Utah USA	Multi-scale Recordings for Neuroprosthetic Control of Finger Movements
Alper Bozkurt	New York USA	Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion Control of Lift Assisted Insect Biobots
Shan Hu	Minnesota USA	Pulse Wave Sensor for Non-intrusive Driver Drowsiness Detection
Ho Chee Keong	Australia	Analysis of a Multi-Access Scheme and Asynchronous Transmit-Only UWB for Wireless Body Area Networks
Babak Mahmoudi	Florida USA	An Actor-Critic Architecture and Simulator for Goal-directed Brain-Machine Interfaces
Seetharam Narasimhan	Ohio USA	A Preferential Design Approach for Energy-Efficient and Robust Implantable Neural Signal Processing Hardware
Yasushi Shiraishi	Japan	Multi-neuron Action Potentials Recorded with Tetrode are not Instantaneous Mixtures of Single Neuronal Action Potentials
Subramaniam Venkatraman	California USA	Exploiting the 1/f Structure of Neural Signals for the Design of Integrated Neural Amplifiers
Marcus Yip	Massachusetts USA	A Flexible Pressure Monitoring System for Pressure Ulcer Prevention
H. Camilia Yousefzadeh	Quebec Canada	A Pulse Generator for Crystal Identification Validation of Phoswich Detectors used in Positron Emission Tomography

The award presentations will take palce during the Welcome Dinner on Thu, Sept. 3rd, 2009!

EMBC'09 Pictures

Check out a few of the pictures taken at EMBC'09 in Minneapolis during the Lunch with Leaders, Poster Sessions, Awards Banquet and Student Activities Minisymposia.

2009 IEEE EMBS Chapter and Student Club/Chapter Awards

2009 IEEE EMBS Outstanding Performance Award for Student Branch Chapter/Club

University of Connecticut EMBS Student Chapter

Take a look at the University of Connecticut EMBS Student Chapter website.

2009 IEEE EMBS Best New Student Chapter/Club Award

University of Western Australia EMBS Student Club

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2009 IEEE EMBS Oustanding Chapter Award

Hong Kong EMBS Chapter

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2009 IEEE EMBS Best New Chapter Award

Swiss EMBS Chapter

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EMBC'09 Student Paper Competition Winners

First Place

Peng Du - Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand

Paper Title: Automated Detection of Gastric Slow Wave Events and Estimation of Propagation Velocity Vector Fields from Serosal High-Resolution Mapping

Second Place

Marcus Yip - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Paper Title: A Flexible Pressure Monitoring System for Pressure Ulcer Prevention

Third Place

Justin Baker - University of Utah, USA

Paper Title: Multi-Scale Recordings for Neuroprosthetic Control of Finger Movements

Third Place

Subramaniam Venkatraman - University of California Berkeley, USA

Paper Title: Exploiting the 1/f Structure of Neural Signals for the Design of Integrated Neural Amplifiers

Congratulations to all the winnder and finalists for their great achievements and good luck with all your future endeavours.

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