This award provides support for a two-day Midwest Conference on Mathematical Methods for Images and Surfaces, to be held on August 27-28, 2011 on the campus of Michigan State University. This meeting was originally planned to bring together researchers of all career stages who work or are interested in mathematical methods for images and surfaces. However, after looking at the schedules and participants of many other conferences we feel that there is a strong need to reach out to researchers in their early careers, particularly in their training period. We have decided to make this conference one that focuses more on bringing together junior researchers. We hope that this conference will serve as a venue for junior researchers to connect with one another and with a group of more senior researchers who have a track record of willingness to mentor junior faculties. Among invited 15 speakers, 6 are female, 11 are junior researchers (including PhD student who has done outstanding research work), and 5 are experts from molecular biology, computer science, mechanical engineering, physiology and radiology. This conference has no invited plenary speakers and all talks are of equal length, which provides an opportunity for young researchers to meet each other in a relaxed yet scientifically rigorous setting. The award will be used entirely for supporting graduate students, postdocs, junior faculty, and researchers from under-represented groups. The research areas represented at the conference span a diverse array of topics in mathematical images and surfaces. Example topics include but are not limited to level set methods, Mumford-Shah functional, higher-order curvature flows, geometric flows for biomedical surface generations, differential geometry based multiscale modeling, partial differential equation transform, surface free energy minimization, wavelet and multiresolution analysis, compressed sensing, cellular imaging and cellular image analysis, biomedical imaging, molecular imaging, bioluminescence imaging, fluorescent imaging, PET imaging, ultrasound imaging, MRI, the analysis of protein, virus and membrane surfaces, image segmentation, computational anatomy, pattern recognition, machine learning, and video analysis and processing. This conference will provide a forum to exchange new ideas and results in images and surfaces and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. Further information can be found at our conference web site: www.mth.msu.edu/MCMM2/index.html.
was held on August 27-28, 2011 on the campus of Michigan State University. This conference focused on bringing together junior researchers, including junior faculty, recently graduated postdocs, and graduate students. Among invited 15 speakers, 11 are junior researchers (including PhD student who has done outstanding research work). Another feature of this conference was that it gave more opportunities to female speakers and participants --- 6 out of 15 speakers were females. Finally, with a relatively small budget, we were able to bring together speakers from a few different fields, including molecular biology, computer science, mechanical engineering, physiology and radiology. Additionally, more than 30 participants, most of them were graduate students from US, attended this conference. Over ten posters were presented in the conferences. This research areas represented at the conference spanned a diverse array of topics in mathematical images and surfaces. Example topics included but were not limited to level set methods, Mumford-Shah functional, higher-order curvature flows, geometric flows for biomedical surface generations, differential geometry based multiscale modeling, partial differential equation transform, surface free energy minimization, wavelet and multiresolution analysis, compressed sensing, cellular imaging and cellular image analysis, biomedical imaging, molecular imaging, bioluminescence imaging, fluorescent imaging, PET imaging, ultrasound imaging, MRI, the analysis of protein, virus and membrane surfaces, image segmentation, computational anatomy, pattern recognition, machine learning, and video analysis and processing. This conference provided a forum to exchange new ideas and results in images and surfaces and fostered interdisciplinary collaborations. Further information can be found at our conference web site: www.mth.msu.edu/MCMM2/index.html.
