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APCOM'07-EPMESC XI
Third Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics in conjunction with
Eleventh International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science

Session MS37-2  Computational Biomechanics: From Cell to Biomolecules (Sponsored by the 21st Century COE Program for Research and Education on Complex Functional Mechanical Systems, Kyoto University)
Time: 14:00 - 15:50 Thursday, December 6, 2007
Location: 1F Room F
Chairs: Mohammad R. K. Mofrad (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA), Taiji Adachi (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

MS37-2-1 (Time: 14:00 - 14:35)
Title[Keynote] Single cell mechanics: Role in studying human diseases
Author*Chwee Teck Lim (National Univ. of Singapore)

MS37-2-2 (Time: 14:35 - 15:00)
TitleMechanics of Bacterial Cell Division
Author*Sean X. Sun (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

MS37-2-3 (Time: 15:00 - 15:25)
TitleA coupled IIM-BEM numerical method for the simulation of cell motion in single cell traps
Author*Boo Cheong Khoo, Duc Vinh Le (National Univ. of Singapore), Carlos Rosales (Institute of High Performance Computing), Jaime Peraire (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

MS37-2-4 (Time: 15:25 - 15:50)
TitleThe shape of an erythrocyte at the membrane stress-free state
Author*Shigeo Wada, Masanori Nakamura (Osaka Univ.)