Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

Douglas Perrin, a senior researcher at Harvard University (http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~dperrin), visited the MAGRIT team from 05/29/17 to 06/02/17. He gave a talk to the Department 1 in Loria, he helped out with scientific understanding of the mitral valve anatomy and he provided advice to Daryna Panicheva supervision during one week.

Thomas Waite, an undergrad student at Harvard University, visited the MAGRIT team from 06/05/17 to 06/09/17. He gave a talk to the Department 1 in Loria, he worked with Pierre-Frédéric Villard on modeling a heart surgical catheter robot with Cosserat model and started writing a journal paper on this subject.

Visits to International Teams

Research Stays Abroad

Pierre-Frederic Villard spent one month (August 2017) at Uppsala University working on the INVIVE project http://www.it.uu.se/research/scientific_computing/project/rbf/biomech. His work there includes supervising PhD student Igor Tominec, meeting with a physiologist expert in respiration muscles and working on both the mesh and the boundary conditions in the case of a passive diaphragm.