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17 March 2021 - 18 March 2021
Switzerland
Finite Element Modeling Event Zurich


FEZ Lecture Series 

March 17, 2021                     
Central European Time (CET)


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Welcome address 

Nicole Webb

 Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich

9:00 - 9:25

Automated approaches for FE-model creation 

The Spine

Jonas Widmer

Department of Orthopaedics, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland 

The Femur  

Ingmar Fleps

Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

9:25 - 9:55

Discussion

9:55 - 10:00

Coffee Break / Optional 1:1 Meetings  

10:00 - 10:45

1:1 Meeting info: https://fez2021.b2match.io/how...

“Using a combined rigid-body FEM model to investigate human jaw function”

Benedikt Sagl

Competence Center Clinical Research, University Clinic of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna

10:45 - 11:10

Discussion

11:10 - 11:15

“Modeling human brain growth in fetal development: what is so special about it?”

András Jakab

University Children's Hospital Zürich

11:15 - 11:40

Discussion

11:40 - 11:45

“What big teeth you have got! - Using biomechanical modelling to study the evolution of sabre-tooth vertebrates”

Stephan Lautenschlager

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

11:45 - 12:10

Discussion

12:10 - 12:15

Lunch Break

12:15 - 13:30

FE modelling of sutures and other soft tissues in cranial biomechanics: how much detail is too much?

Alana Sharp

Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool

13:30 -13:55

Discussion

13:55 - 14:00

“Application of the Finite Element Method to Biomechanical Systems”

Marco P.L. Parente

Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

14:00 - 14:25

Discussion

14:25 - 14:30

“Inferring ecological traits of fossil taxa using machine learning and FEA data”

Jordi Marcé Nogué

Departament d'Enginyeria Mecànica, University Rovira i Virgili Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain

14:30 – 14:55

Discussion

14:55 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 - 15:30

“Validity and sensitivity in primate cranial FEA”

Paul O’Higgins

Department of Archaeology & Centre for Anatomical & Human Sciences, Hull York Medical School, University of York

15:30 – 15:55

Discussion

15:55 - 16:00

“Modeling approaches to cranial joints and skull performance in reptiles”

Casey Holliday

Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Missouri

16:00 - 16:25

Discussion16:25 - 16:30

“Rethinking the use of finite element simulations in comparative biomechanics research”

Z. Jack Tseng

Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley          

16:30 - 16:55

Discussion

16:55-17:00

Closing remarks

Eva Herbst

Paleontological Institute and Museum,University of Zurich

17:00 17:10

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