Final Program
DAY 1
Saturday Dec. 15, 2012
Sunday Dec. 16, 2012
High Performance Computing (HPC)
8:30 - 9:00
Opening Session
The First Biomedical Engineering Workshop
A Tweak to Have it on the Right Track
Prof. Dr. Yasser M. Kadah, SBME Dept., Cairo University
9:00 - 9:45
Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)
Basics, Ideas and Challenges
9:45 - 10:00
Coffee break (on your own)
10:15 - 11:00
Parallel Programming & Heterogenous Computing
(OpenMP & MPI)
Hisham Mohamed, University of Geneva
11:00 - 11:45
Graphics Processing Units Computing (GPGPU)
CUDA & OpenCL
Marwan Abdellah, Blue Brain Project, EPFL
XX:XX - XX:XX
This session will be shifted
Large Scale Scientific Computing
Trends & Objectives
Marwan Abdellah, Blue Brain Project, EPFL
DAY 2
Sunday Dec. 16, 2012
Medical Visualization
12:15 - 13:00
Volumetric Imaging & Medical Applications
Yamen Nouh, Symbyo Technologies
13:00 - 13:15
Coffee break (on your own)
13:15 - 14:00
Optimizing Visualization Pipelines in Medical Imaging (1)
Mohamed Adel, Symbyo Technologies
14:00 - 14:30
Coffee break (on your own)
14:30 - 15:15
Optimizing Visualization Pipelines in Medical Imaging (2)
Mohamed Adel, Symbyo Technologies
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee break (on your own)
15:30 - 16:15
Volume Rendering Techniques & Development Tools
Ahmed Ramadan, Symbyo Technologies
Sohair Ali, Symbyo Technologies
DAY 3
Monday Dec. 17, 2012
Software Engineering & Web Design
12:15 - 13:00
Programming Spectrum
A Different Approach for Language & Paradigm Selection
Mahmoud Ismael, Nile University (NU) & Peerialism
13:00 - 13:15
Coffee break (on your own)
13:15 - 14:00
Software Build Systems
Cracking the Naive Approach
Marwan Abdellah, Blue Brain Project, EPFL
14:00 - 14:30
Coffee break (on your own)
14:30 - 15:15
Version Control Systems
Track the Untracked Code
Sohair Ali, Symbyo Technologies
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee break (on your own)
15:30 - 16:15
Medical Web Development
Demystifying Medical Portals
Assem Ragab, Oracle Egypt
This session has been cancelled
DAY 4
Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012
Hardware Design & Computer Vision
12:15 - 13:00
Introduction to Embedded Systems
Reda Maged, Mirqah's 3D Animation Studio
13:00 - 13:15
Coffee break (on your own)
13:15 - 14:00
MicroControllers
Islam Sherief, Valeo Egypt
14:00 - 14:30
Coffee break (on your own)
14:30 - 15:15
Embedded Systems Applications
Waleed El-Taweel, IBM Egypt
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee break (on your own)
15:30 - 16:15
Introduction to Computer Vision
Reda Maged, Mirqah's 3D Animation Studio
DAY 5
Wednesday Dec. 19, 2012
Technical Writing & Presentation Skills Development
12:15 - 13:00
Scientific Writing via Latex
Hisham Mohamed, University of Geneva
Marwan Abdellah, Blue Brain Project, EPFL
13:00 - 13:15
Coffee break (on your own)
13:15 - 14:00
Presentation Skills (1)
Mohamed Haroun, SHIFT Training & Consultancy
14:00 - 14:30
Coffee break (on your own)
14:30 - 15:15
Presentation Skills (2)
Mohamed Haroun, SHIFT Training & Consultancy
15:15 - 15:30
Closing Session
Marwan Abdellah, Blue Brain Project, EPFL
