הנכם מוזמנים ליום עיון של האיגוד להנדסה רפואית וביולוגית בנושא חידושים באבחון, פרוגנוזה וטיפול בסרטן.

08 בינואר 2017, 16:34

יום עיון של האיגוד להנדסה רפואית וביולוגית

חידושים באבחון, פרוגנוזה וטיפול בסרטן

8 בינואר, 2017

יום העיון יתקיים באוניברסיטת תל אביב, באולם וולפסון 020 בפקולטה להנדסה.

** ההרצאות תינתנה בעברית

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תכנית מקדמית

16:00-16:30	Gathering and coffee
16:30-16:35	Opening words Prof. Meital Zilberman, President of the ISMBE, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv university Asst. Prof. Daphne Weihs, Head of the ISMBE Scientific Committee, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-IIT
16:35-17:00	Prof. Dan Peer, Chair, Cancer Biology Research Center, Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University *From Glioma and ovarian cancer to hematological malignancies: novel approaches for therapeutic gene silencing using tagged nanomedicines*
17:00-17:25	Asst. Prof. Daphne Weihs, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology *Cancer mechanobiology: how forceful interactions of tumor cells can predict the likelihood for metastasis*
17:25-17:50	Dr. Yael Mardor, Chief Scientist, The Advanced Technology Center, Sheba Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University *MRI-based treatment response assessment maps (TRAMs) for high resolution differentiation between tumor and treatment effects in patients with brain tumors*
17:50-18:15	Dr. Ido Wolf, Head, Medical oncology, Oncology Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center *Do we still need chemotherapy in 2017?*
18:20-18:45	Open discussion panel with the speakers

מפגש של "פורום הסטודנטים לאנרגיה מתחדשת"

ביום ג' ה-20.12 בין השעות 11:00-12:30, יתקיים מפגש של פורום הסטודנטים לאנרגיה מתחדשת של אוניברסיטת תל- אביב.

במסגרת המפגש תתקיים הרצאתו של פרופ' אורי שמיר מהטכניון בנושא: "ניתוח מערכות Systems Analysis)) ויישומים במשק המים".

המפגש יתקיים בבניין וולפסון להנדסה מכנית, חדר 206, קומה ב'.

תקציר ההרצאה ותקציר קו"ח של פרופ' אורי שמיר מצורפים.

20 בדצמבר 2016, 11:00

וולפסון 206

תקציר הרצאה לתלמידי פורום הסטודנטים לאנרגיה מתחדשת באוניברסיטת תל אביב

20.12.2016

ניתוח מערכות Systems Analysis)) ויישומים במשק המים

פרופ' אמריטוס אורי שמיר

הנדסה אזרחית וסביבתית, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל

חלק ראשון: הקדמה, בלי כניסה לפרטים מתמטיים ו/או טכניים. אני מתכוון להציג את החלק הראשון בגדר (כמעט) כותרות, על מנת להקדיש זמן מספיק לחלק השני, שייתן תוכן קונקרטי לסעיפים של החלק הראשון

ניתוח מערכות מהו? שמות אחרים: הנדסת מערכות, חקר ביצועים, אופטימיזציה
רכיביו של מודל אופטימיזציה: משתני החלטה, אילוצים, פרמטרים, פונקצית מטרה
ריבוי מטרות: אין פתרון אופטימלי, רק פתרון פשרה יעיל, חזית פארטו
שילוב של הבנת התוכן המקצועי ויכולת להפעיל ארגז כלים (שיטות אופטימיזציה)
תפקידם של מודליסטים במערכות ציבוריות, ריבוי בעלי ענין
תפקידם של מודליסטים במערכות פרטיות
החשוב ביותר: ניסוח נכון/מועיל/יעיל של המודל, בתהליך איטרטיבי
פירוט בזמן ובמרחב, אגרגציה, חיסכון בפירוט ובפרמטרים (Parsimony)
החשיבות של הצגת תוצאות במתכונת מועילה לצרכני התוצאות
שיטות לפתרון בעיות אופטימיזציה (על קצה המזלג), יעילות חישובית
הדגמת נושאים אחדים במשק האנרגיה

חלק שני: הדגמות שמטרתן להמחיש יישומים למערכת של ניהול משאבים ומערכות מים, בארץ ובעולם, בעיקר מנקודת ראות ציבורית, על הבסיס שהונח בחלק הראשון

תקציר קו"ח של פרופ' אורי שמיר

Prof. Uri Shamir is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Founding Director (1992-2003) of the Stephen and Nancy Grand Water Research Institute at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Prof. Shamir's expertise is hydrology and water resources management. He holds a BSc (1962) from the Technion and a PhD (1966) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lectures, conducts research and consults in Israel and around the world on hydrology and water resources management. Since 1992 Prof. Shamir has been a senior consultant to the Israeli Water and Sewage Authority (IWA) on matters of planning and policy, and previously (1967-92) was consultant to Mekorot, the National Water Supply Company. He is a member of the IWA core team that elaborated the 2012 Water Master Plan for Israel, a member of the negotiating team with Israel's neighbors on water, chairs the Steering Team for Monitoring Lake Kinneret and its Watershed, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the project "Israel-4" for rainfall enhancement by cloud seeding.

He was Visiting Professor in various universities and research institutes in the US and Canada, and has published widely on research and applications in hydrology of surface and groundwater, water supply systems, planning, design and operation of water resources systems, water policy, and management of international waters.

Prof. Shamir was Chairman of the Israeli Association of Water Resources (1984-1986), President of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (1991-1995), Vice President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics IUGG (1995-2003) and IUGG President (2003-2007). He was Member of the Executive Board of the International Council of Science (ICSU) for the periods 2005-2008 and 2008-2011.

Prof. Shamir is Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP-TAC), the UN water programme led by UNESCO. The TAC advises the preparation of the World Water Development Reports (WWDRs) with several hundred contributors around the world; WWDR-2015 and 2016 reports are titled, respectively, "Water for a Sustainable World" and "Water and Jobs.

Prof. Shamir is Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Foreign Member of the Spanish Academy of Science, Honorary Member of the Israel Water Resources Association, recipient of the 2000 International Hydrology Prize awarded jointly by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO, recipient of the 2003 Julian Hinds Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers "for significant contributions to water resources management", Fellow of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the ASCE, and recipient of the Life-Long Achievement Award of the Israeli Water Association.

November 2016 Personal web site: http://shamir.net.technion.ac.il

Material Sciences and Engineering: Departmental Seminar

In-situ X-ray crystallography of functional ferroelectric materials

Dr. Semen Gorfman

Department of Physics, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

28 בדצמבר 2016, 16:00

Room 206, Wolfson Mechanical Engineering Building

In-situ X-ray crystallography

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR

18 בדצמבר 2016, 14:30

נטלי דאי

תלמידת המחלקה להנדסה ביו רפואית לתואר שני תרצה בנושא:

Computational Modeling of Gene Expression in Microalgae

C. reinhardtii is a green microalgae used as a model organism for research on fundamental questions in molecular biology; in addition, it is commonly used as a model in the biotechnology industry for applications such as production of biopharmaceuticals, production of sustainable chemical compounds, and as a clean source of hydrogen production.

Gene expression is the process by which information encoded in the DNA is used for producing proteins and regulating their levels. Thus, in order to research and manipulate C. reinhardtii we must understand and model its gene expression.

In the lecture I will report the first systems biology study aiming to understand fundamental gene expression rules in C. reinhardtii. My study includes analyses of the entire C. reinhardtii transcriptome via supervised and unsupervised approaches .

העבודה נעשתה בהנחיית פרופ' תמיר טולר המחלקה להנדסה ביו-רפואית, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב

ההרצאה תתקיים ביום ראשון 18.12.16, בשעה 14:30

בחדר 315, הבניין הרב תחומי, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

סמינר מחלקתי ביה"ס להנדסה מכאנית Ori Gadot and Elad Hahn

25 בינואר 2017, 14:00

וולפסון 206

סמינר מחלקתי ביה"ס להנדסה מכאנית Ori Gadot and Elad Hahn

School of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 14:00
Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

A UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTION RULE FOR THE STRUCTURAL SYNTHESIS OF MECHANISMS AND TRUSSES

Elad Hahn

M.Sc. student of Prof. Offer Shai

In the field of structural synthesis of mechanisms, several synthesis methods have been developed using different approaches. One of the more interesting approaches was that of bottom-up construction via the combination of modular structural groups, known as Assur groups. In this thesis, this approach is combined with new graph representations of mechanisms taken from Rigidity theory, capable of representing all the different types of planar and spatial mechanisms. With the strong mathematical base of Rigidity theory, a new synthesis method is proposed based on Assur groups, which are reformulated in terms of graphs and renamed Assur Graphs (AG). The reformulation of Assur Graphs generalizes the use of Assur groups from mechanisms to any type of topological structure, e.g., trusses, molecules and data networks. Using a single Universal Construction Rule, Assur Graphs of different types and of any size are constructed, creating a complete set of building blocks for the synthesis of all feasible structure topologies. The thesis focuses on construction of engineering systems, i.e., mechanisms and trusses. As its name implies, the Universal Construction Rule (UCR) is applicable to mechanisms of all types of joints and links, for planar or spatial motion. This construction method also gives insight on the complexity of a structure for static and kinematic analysis.

The UCR provides two main contributions to the field of structural synthesis. The first is using a single induction step algorithm applicable for all different types of mechanisms and topological structures. This is opposed to other synthesis methods which are limited to only certain types of mechanisms, generally using several synthesis approaches. The second contribution is the development of a coherent method for construction of Assur Graphs of infinite size, which enables the exploitation of some unique engineering properties residing in Assur groups. These unique properties are also mentioned in this thesis.

School of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 14:00
Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

A New Void Growth Micromechanical Damage Model for Materials under Ballistic Impact

Ori Gadot

MSc Student of Prof. Rami Haj-Ali

Composite materials are one of the most widely used materials in the past half century, and yet, accurate predictive modeling of their mechanical behavior has not been fully resolved. Currently, many damage material models are based on phenomenological considerations, microstructural geometrical generalizations, or statistical approaches. Nucleation, growth and coalescence of microcavities are known physical mechanisms occurring during material deformation. These phenomena are the predominant damage mechanisms in both metallic and brittle material models, e.g. the well-known Gurson's void growth model.

Presented herein is a new approach for the characterization of mechanical damage response of porous and non-porous materials. The method is based on a micromechanical model known as the Generalized Method of Cells (GMC). The model considers a simple three-dimensional Repeating Unit Cell (RUC) which includes an embedded initial void that is explicitly recognized as a growing “inclusion”. The mechanical response of the homogenous material is formulated by means of traction and displacement continuities within the RUC. Triple periodicity conditions are also employed as neighboring RUCs. The uniqueness of this model is the addition of evolution equations for the microstructure, i.e. a varying phase geometry dictated by a void growth evolution rule. The progressive void volume ratio (VVR) alters the relations between the material's phases, thus strongly affecting the homogenous material behavior and generating strain-softening type degradation of the mechanical behavior.

For ductile materials, known for their extensive cavity growth, the method uses a plastic strain accumulation evolution technique based on McClintock's rate of void growth.
Additionally, the model uses a void growth type criterion based on the average volumetric strain in order to describe brittle type high-rate fracture behavior. The latter scheme has been implemented as a material model with an explicit finite element (FE) code. Dynamic simulations of a ceramic armor plate under ballistic impact have been carried out. Successful ceramic fracture simulation responses were generated by the new model, such as radial crack progression in the armor plate and conical crack shape development in the impact zone.

סמינר מחלקתי ביה"ס להנדסה מכאנית Prof. Sabrina Spatari

21 בדצמבר 2016, 14:00

וולפסון 206

סמינר מחלקתי ביה"ס להנדסה מכאנית Prof. Sabrina Spatari

School of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 14:00
Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

Opportunities for carbon abatement through development of biomass-to-bioenergy pathways

Prof. Sabrina Spatari

Associate Professor, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, spatari@drexel.edu

Visiting Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Biofuels are currently under development to meet policy goals for diversifying energy supply, reducing the carbon-intensity of transportation and other sectors, and stimulating growth in rural economies. Countries around the world including the U.S., Canada, Germany, and the UK have developed renewable and low carbon fuel policies to incentivize transport fuels derived from biomass into the market. At present biological and thermochemical technologies are under development at laboratory and pilot scale to investigate the technological needs and economics of scaling biofuels and value-added co-products. Ethanol, higher alcohols, and fully infrastructure compatible fuels (with 0% oxygen – physically and chemically similar to current petroleum based fuels) are being developed at different scales, including small (farm) scale (up to 200 dry metric tons/day) and industrial scale (2000 dry metric tons/day and higher) to utilize diverse sources of lignocellulose. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for evaluating the environmental performance of biofuels and biomaterials emerging through R&D, and a necessary tool for developing and judging the compliance of those biofuels and value-added co-products under low carbon fuel standards. This presentation investigates technological, environmental, and energy and resource impacts of a set of emerging lignocellulose-based biofuels from biological and thermochemical technologies at different scales using statistically based LCA methods. Uncertainties that stem from technological performance in the near and medium terms are characterized. This presentation will further highlight how analytical models for understanding the full set of environmental tradeoffs associated with emerging biofuel technologies are essential inputs to guiding policy and commercial enterprise decision making for improving the overall sustainability of transportation energy supply.

Bio for Sabrin

Dr. Sabrina Spatari’s research and expertise focuses on the development and application of life cycle assessment (LCA) and other systems analysis methods for guiding engineering decision making and public policy. Her specific interests include industrial ecology, biomass and bioenergy, biofuels, and urban infrastructure. Dr. Spatari studied Chemical Engineering and received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto. She is currently Associate Professor in Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia and Visiting Professor at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. Her research on biomass resources and renewable energy extends to multiple U.S. and international projects, including in Uruguay and Israel. She has been an invited speaker on biofuel and LCA of early stage biomass conversion technology at the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering meeting and the Gordon Research Seminar on Industrial Ecology. In 2014 she was the recipient of Drexel University’s Louis and Bessie Stein Family Fellowship.

SABRINA SPATARI

Drexel University, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering,

3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone: (215) 571-3557 · Fax: (215) 895-1363 · email: spatari@drexel.edu

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

University of Toronto Chemical Engineering B.A.Sc., 1995

University of Michigan Chemical Engineering (M.S.E), 1998

Yale University Sch. Forestry and Env. Studies Research Engineer, 2000-02

University of Toronto Civil Engineering Ph.D., 2007

University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Scholar 2007-08

Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada, 2003-present

APPOINTMENTS

January 2009-present Assistant Professor Department of Civil, Environmental and

Architectural Engineering, Drexel University

selected Honors and Awards

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada PDF (2007-09); PGS (2003-04)

Research Interests

My research concentrates on developing and applying systems analysis methods, such as life cycle assessment (LCA) to support decision-making for engineered systems. I am interested in applying these methods toward the development of sustainable infrastructure systems including, energy provision in transportation and power utilities, and asset management.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Founding member of the ISIE Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis (LCSA) topical section committee
My research on winter cropping systems informed policy makers on advanced fuel feedstocks for EPA’s RFS2 standard (2009-10)
Consultant to USDA-FAS on LCA of energy crops for biofuels and power in Uruguay, 2012-2013
Expert Declarant to the State of California Attorney General’s Office on Advanced biofuels and Life Cycle-based Policy Making, December 2010
Invited speaker, NAE Frontiers of Engineering, German-US on Biomass Conversion, 2013
Invited participant, NAE Frontiers of Engineering, US-EU Meeting on Materials Ecology, 2010
Manuscript reviewer for: Atmospheric Environment, Biomass and Bioenergy, Bioresource Technology, Environ. Sci. Technol., J. Industrial Ecology, I.J. LCA 2000-present.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Pourhashem, G.; Spatari, S.; Boateng, A. A.; McAloon, A.; Mullen, C. A., Life Cycle Environmental and Economic Tradeoffs of Using Fast Pyroysis Products for Power Generation. Energy & Fuels 2013.

Spatari, S.; MacLean, H. L., Characterizing Model Uncertainties in the Life Cycle of Lignocellulose-Based Ethanol Fuels. Environmental Science & Technology 2010, 44, (22), 8773-8780.

Spatari, S.; Bagley, D. M.; MacLean, H. L., Life cycle evaluation of emerging lignocellulosic ethanol conversion technologies. Bioresource Technology 2010, 101, (2), 654-667.

Spatari, S.; Zhang, Y. M.; MacLean, H. L., Life cycle assessment of switchgrass- and corn stover-derived ethanol-fueled automobiles. Environmental Science & Technology 2005, 39, (24), 9750-9758.

Yeh, S.; Jordaan, S. M.; Brandt, A. R.; Turetsky, M. R.; Spatari, S.; Keith, D. W., Land Use Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Conventional Oil Production and Oil Sands. Environmental Science & Technology 2010, 44, (22), 8766-8772.

MacLean, H. L.; Spatari, S., The contribution of enzymes and process chemicals to the life cycle of ethanol. Environmental Research Letters 2009, (1), 014001.

SABRINA SPATARI

Drexel University, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering,

3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone: (215) 571-3557 · Fax: (215) 895-1363 · email: spatari@drexel.edu

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

University of Toronto Chemical Engineering B.A.Sc., 1995

University of Michigan Chemical Engineering (M.S.E), 1998

Yale University Sch. Forestry and Env. Studies Research Engineer, 2000-02

University of Toronto Civil Engineering Ph.D., 2007

University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Scholar 2007-08

Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada, 2003-present

APPOINTMENTS

January 2009-present Assistant Professor Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Drexel University

selected Honors and Awards

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada PDF (2007-09); PGS (2003-04)

Research Interests

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Founding member of the ISIE Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis (LCSA) topical section committee
My research on winter cropping systems informed policy makers on advanced fuel feedstocks for EPA’s RFS2 standard (2009-10)
Consultant to USDA-FAS on LCA of energy crops for biofuels and power in Uruguay, 2012-2013
Expert Declarant to the State of California Attorney General’s Office on Advanced biofuels and Life Cycle-based Policy Making, December 2010
Invited speaker, NAE Frontiers of Engineering, German-US on Biomass Conversion, 2013
Invited participant, NAE Frontiers of Engineering, US-EU Meeting on Materials Ecology, 2010
Manuscript reviewer for: Atmospheric Environment, Biomass and Bioenergy, Bioresource Technology, Environ. Sci. Technol., J. Industrial Ecology, I.J. LCA 2000-present.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Pourhashem, G.; Spatari, S.; Boateng, A. A.; McAloon, A.; Mullen, C. A., Life Cycle Environmental and Economic Tradeoffs of Using Fast Pyroysis Products for Power Generation. Energy & Fuels 2013.

Spatari, S.; MacLean, H. L., Characterizing Model Uncertainties in the Life Cycle of Lignocellulose-Based Ethanol Fuels. Environmental Science & Technology 2010, 44, (22), 8773-8780.

Spatari, S.; Bagley, D. M.; MacLean, H. L., Life cycle evaluation of emerging lignocellulosic ethanol conversion technologies. Bioresource Technology 2010, 101, (2), 654-667.

Spatari, S.; Zhang, Y. M.; MacLean, H. L., Life cycle assessment of switchgrass- and corn stover-derived ethanol-fueled automobiles. Environmental Science & Technology 2005, 39, (24), 9750-9758.

MacLean, H. L.; Spatari, S., The contribution of enzymes and process chemicals to the life cycle of ethanol. Environmental Research Letters 2009, (1), 014001.

a Spatari

הרצאת אורח של -אילת לסמן במחלקה להנדסה ביו רפואית

18 בדצמבר 2016, 15:00

Biomechanical interaction between cells and their non-linear elastic environment

Ayelet Lesman

Biomedical Engineering TAU

Biological cells are able to apply, sense and respond to mechanical forces which can influence their function. Cells also live in environments that exhibit unique mechanical properties with nonlinear elasticity. In my new biomechanics laboratory at TAU Mechanical Engineering (www.lesmanlab.com), we seek to understand how such mechanical factors direct cells toward defined fates and organizations. In this talk, I will present our experimental and computational efforts to quantify the cell-induced deformations, strains, and stresses throughout three-dimensional nonlinear elastic environments during various biological processes including cell division, invasion and cell-cell interaction. Our research efforts allow to understand and predict the mechanical factors that direct and control cell function which can be utilized to direct tissue-level organization and function for regenerative medicine applications.

ההרצאה תתקיים ביום ראשון 18.12.16, בשעה 15:00

בחדר 315, הבניין הרב תחומי, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

07 דצמבר 2016

ידיעות נוספות בנושא

EE Seminar: Dynamic beamforming and steering in echolocating bats

Speaker: Amir Zviran

M.Sc. student under the supervision of Prof. Anthony J. Weiss and Dr. Yossi Yovel

Wednesday, December 14^th, 2016 at 15:30

Room 011, Kitot Bldg., Faculty of Engineering

Dynamic beamforming and steering in echolocating bats

Abstract

Echoloating bats emit ultrasonic pulses and anlyze the received echoes to perceive their environment. The spatial distribution of the pulse's energy, also known as beamforming, determines the bat's biosonar field of view. By shifting its acoustic gaze and narrowing its beam, the bat may focus its attention on an object of interest.

In this work we tested the beam forming and steering of the mouth-emitting Pipistrellus kuhlii bat as it was searching and approaching its target. Using audio recordings from a microphone array and data collected from our state-of-the-art IR tracking system, we reconstructed the bat's beam shape and direction and made several interesting conclusions about its dynamic beamforming and steering behavior.

In addition, we compared our results with those anticipated by "the piston model", the most commonly used model for approximating the beam's shape of mouth-emitting bats.

14 בדצמבר 2016, 15:30

חדר 011, בניין כיתות-חשמל

סמינר מחלקתי

Personalized Information Sharing: Reducing Coordination Overhead in Loosely-Coupled Teamwork
Dr. Ofra Amir – Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

ABSTRACT:

Teamwork is a core human activity, essential to progress in many areas. A vast body of research in the social sciences and in computer science has studied teamwork and developed tools to support teamwork. Although the technologies resulting from this work have enabled teams to work together more effectively in many settings, they have proved inadequate for supporting the coordination of distributed teams that operate in a loosely-coupled manner. In this talk, I will present three integrated research efforts towards developing intelligent systems that reduce coordination overhead in such teams: an in depth formative study of complex healthcare teams, the design of new computational methods for efficiently sharing information with team members, and an evaluation of those methods in a realistic teamwork setting.

The study of complex healthcare teams revealed new coordination challenges in loosely-coupled teamwork. Based these findings, we propose a new approach that aims to reduce information overload while ensuring that team members have sufficient awareness of others’ activities by personalizing the information shared with different team members. Specifically, we developed a new representation, Mutual Influence Potential Networks, that implicitly learns collaboration patterns and dependencies among activities from team members’ interactions, and MIP-DOI, an algorithm that uses this representation to determine the information that is most relevant to each team member. We implemented a system that used MIP-DOI to personalize information sharing in the context of collaborative writing. An evaluation of this system showed that personalized information sharing resulted in higher productivity and reduced perceived workload of team members compared to indiscriminate sharing of changes, without detrimental effects on the quality of the team’s work.

Bio: Ofra Amir completed her PhD at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She holds a BSc and MSc in Information Systems Engineering, both from Ben-Gurion University. Ofra’s research combines AI and HCI methods to develop intelligent systems that support people in domains such as education and healthcare. Her work has won the second place in the 2013 Computing Community Consortium/AAMAS Challenges and Visions Track and an honorable mention in ACM CHI’15, and was a finalist for the CIMIT student technology in healthcare prize. She is a recipient of a Siebel Scholarship.

13 בדצמבר 2016, 14:00

חדר 206 בניין וולפסון

יום עיון של האיגוד להנדסה רפואית וביולוגית

חידושים באבחון, פרוגנוזה וטיפול בסרטן

8 בינואר, 2017

Dr. Ido Wolf, Head, Medical oncology, Oncology Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Open discussion panel with the speakers

תקציר הרצאה לתלמידי פורום הסטודנטים לאנרגיה מתחדשת באוניברסיטת תל אביב

תקציר קו"ח של פרופ' אורי שמיר

Biomechanical interaction between cells and their non-linear elastic environment

Ayelet Lesman

Biomedical Engineering TAU

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