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2011 Autumn Newsletter
The Autumn edition of the ESB newsletter is now available to view here.
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international foot and ankle biomechanics community i-FAB
The international foot and ankle biomechanics community i-FAB is an international collaborative community of all people related to foot and ankle biomechanics.
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Special issue of Interface Focus - The Virtual Physiological Human

Royal Society Publishing has just published an issue of Interface Focus - The Virtual Physiological Human organised by Peter Coveney, Marco Viceconti, Vanessa Diaz, Peter Hunter and Peter Kohl.
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Meetings

ESB Meetings
19th Congress of the ESB
The 19th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB2013) will be held at the Conference and Cultural Centre of the University of Patras, Greece, between 25-28 August 2013.  www.esbiomech2013.org/ 

18th Congress of the ESB

The 18th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics 
will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on 1st to 4th July 2012.



Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is a beautiful, historic city on the Atlantic Ocean. Lisbon has been a point of cultural interchange and encounter for many centuries for visitors and people coming from all over the world. It is a safe and pleasant city where delegates and their companions will feel at ease and will be very well received. Lisbon has a very good weather, in July is mostly sunny and dry, with mildly hot temperatures between 16°C to 30°C. Lisbon location and airport infrastructures make it easily accessible to visitors from all parts of the world. The conference will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the Engineering School of the Technical University of Lisbon, and organized by an experienced team from IST chaired by Paulo Fernandes, João Folgado and Miguel Silva.

All up-to-date information can be obtained at the congress website: www.esbiomech2012.org
17th Congress of the ESB
The  17th Congress of the ESB in 2010  was held in Edinburgh Scotland, UK. 5-8 July.


The 2010 meeting covered all the ESB’s traditional core topics, and also included emerging research areas in which much new and exciting biomechanics research is taking place. 
A pre-course was part of the programme offering advise and experience by various experts in certain areas of biomechanics applications: Innovative methods for the generation and validation of musculoskeletal models / Arterial Mechanics / Medical Image analysis / Muscle Mechanics.
Various plenary sessions addressed current “hot topics” in biomechanics research, and provided valuable insight into the ever-increasing importance of collaborative research, interdisciplinary programs, EU funding opportunities and biomechanical education programmes.
 

Programme Committee
James Cunningham
William Eason
Peter Hoskins
Hamish Simpson
Mark Taylor
Amy Zavatsky
Programme Leaders
Dan Bader
Elizabeth Tanner
Yiannis Ventikos
Laoise McNamara
James Cunningham
Peter Hoskins
Hamish Simpson
Mark Taylor
Amy Zavatsky
Peter Zioupos
Local Organising Team
Bob Carr & Arlene Sievwright
CPD - Office of Lifelong Learning
The University of Edinburgh
11 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
Telephone: +44 (0) 131 651 1819
Fax: +44 (0) 131 651 1746
email: cpd@ed.ac.uk 

16th Congress of the ESB

The 16th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics took place in Lucerne (Switzerland) on July 6 - 9, 2008, and was a resounding success. The meeting was organised by the MEM Research Center - ISTB at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and attracted more than 600 abstracts on diverse topics spanning the whole spectrum of the biomechanics field. You can find a report and pictures from the meeting here.





ESB Workshops
ESB-2009 Workshop: Movement Biomechanics and Sport
 
The ESB-2009 Workshop took place on 7-9 June 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland, on the topic of Movement Biomechanics and Sport.


 

The workshop was structured into the following themes:

  • Introduction to the movement of the human body:  Movement and loading during activities and the consequences on the musculoskeletal system, with a focus on soft tissue.
  • Material response – mechanical effects of loading:  The effects of movement and loading on the entire musculoskeletal system, with a focus on soft tissue. What causes health problems, what can be tolerated? 
  • System adaptation – long term effects of loading:  Longterm effects of load, adaptation of material (micro), development of injury, interventions and therapies (macro). 


A report on the presentations and awards that took place at the workshop is contained in the Autumn 2009 newsletter: http://www.esbiomech.org/Section/newsletter



Endorsed Meetings
Virtual human modeling mini symposium
December 18-29, 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia
www.icamem2010.org/
EORS 2010
June 30 - July 2, 2010, Davos, Switzerland
www.eors2010.org 
3rd Munich International Symposium on Biofluid Mechanics
12th-13th September 2009, Munich, Germany



Other Meetings
CMBBE 2012 - Berlin
11th-14th April 2012, Berlin, Germany
http://www.cmbbe2012.cf.ac.uk/
34th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics

Providence, RI USA August 18 - 21, 2010

i-FAB 2010 Seattle, the 2nd Congress of the International Foot and Ankle Biomechanics Community (i-FAB)

University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA
September 16-18, 2010
web site:  http://www.i-FAB2010.org 

3D Analysis of Human Movement 2010 Conference, San Francisco, California, July 14-16, 2010
While experiencing the majestic vistas of San Francisco, learn of the “Virtual Vistas” in the worlds of Physical Therapy Rehabilitation, Dance and Interactive Media, Human Robotics, Orthopedic Surgery, and Industrial Design.
http://www.3dma-10.org
MBEC Congress 2008
4th European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), November 23-27, 2008, Antwerp (Belgium). See congress website.