Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Y. Bourgault, Pr. University of Ottawa, Department of mathematics and statistics. Invited researcher for 2 months, 1/10/2013 to 30/11/2013.

  Comparison between the monodomain and bidomain models for cardiac electrophysiology, and design of an optimalmonodomain aprroximation of the nidomain equations.

• In July, 2013, B. Smaill, Professor at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) and leader of the Cardiac Electrophysiology group, and M. Nash, Professor and Associate Director of the ABI, visited the LIRYC Institute, including a visit to our team Carmen and rich exchanges about our approaches of modelling and the role of experimental data.

• Mohamed Jebalia, Assistant professor, ENIT (Tunisia), researcher from the LAMSIN, May toJuly 2013.

Internships – Visiting PhD Students

• Mohammed Addouche, March 2013.

  • Institution: University of Tlemcen (Algeria)

  • Subject: On using factorisation methods for the quasistatic inverse problems of electrocardiology.

• Najib Fiakl, PhD student, December 2013.

  • Institution: University of Rabat (Morroco)

  • Subject: Study of the uncertainties on the thoracic electrical conductivities on the resolution of the direct problem of electrocardiology.

• Wajih Mbarki, November to December 2013.

  • Institution: Université El Manar of Tunis, Tunisia

  • Subject: Theoretical and numerical study of the Purkinje-muscle coupling in cardiac electrophysiology.

• Jamila Lassoued, September 2013.

  • Institution: ENIT of Tunis, Tunisia

  • Subject: application of model reduction techniques to the inverse problems in cardiac electrophysiology.

• Laura Bear, October to December 2013, was co-localized between the LIRYC and Inria.

  • Institution: University of Auckland (New Zealand), Auckland Bioengineering Institute

  • Subject: Laura started to work on our inverse solutions for the cardiac electrical imaging problem using the datasets obtained during the first two years of her PhD at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. The objective is to investigate the possibility and limitations of cardiac non-invasive electrical imaging.

Internships

• Hamed Bourenane, July to August 2013

  • Institution: Student in medicine at the University Bordeaux Segalen

  • Subject: Segmentations of CT-scan images from the CardioInsight system including fat, bones, lungs, etc.

• Valentin heisel, June to September 2013

  • Institution: ENSEIRB-MATMECA

  • Subject: Developped a fortran module to account for 2nd order solvers in cardiac electrophysiology and compared various solvers for cellular electrophysiology.

• Nina Le Devehat, June to July 2013

  • Institution: First year of University Bordeaux I, supported by the programme “stages d'excellence” from the University

  • Subject: She studied the modelling of cellulat electrophysiology by the Vanderpol equations.

• Abdessamad Sobhi, July to September 2013

  • Institution: ENSEIRB-MATMECA

  • Subject: Inverse problem of cardiac electrophysiology.

• Thibaut Vandromme, June to September 2013

  • Institution: ENSEIRB-MATMECA

  • Subject: Fast solvers for cardiac electrophysiology, continued the work in SOFA of a previous trainee (N. Claude in 2012).

• Bastien Verot, June to September 2013

  • Institution: ENSEIRB-MATMECA

  • Subject: Numerical approximation of the microscopic bidomain equations of cardiac electrophysiology in a simplified linear context.

• Mathias Cassonnet, January 2013

  • Institution: secondary school pupil

  • Subject: Trainee for observation only

• Alexandre Lourenco Peirera, January 2013

  • Institution: secondary school pupil

  • Subject: Trainee for observation only

Visits to International Teams

• Y. Coudière visited the GIREF (« Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Éléments Finis »), June, 2013.