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All presentations will take place at Maastricht University (see location for more information).

Time	Speaker	Title
09:00-09:45	Registration and coffee
09:45-09:55	Jo M. M. Ritzen, PhD President of Maastricht University	Word of welcome on behalf of Maastricht University
09:55-10:00	Paul G. A. Volders, MD, PhD Cardiologist, Academic Hospital Maastricht Assistant Professor of Cardiology, School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University	Introductory remarks to workshop on behalf of organizers
10:00-10:20	Hein J. J. Wellens, MD, PhD Emeritus Professor of Cardiology Honorary Chairman of the Workshop	Which are the frontiers in electrocardiology in 2008?
Session 1: Microscopic Models of Cardiac Bioelectricity Chairs: Paul G. A. Volders, MD, PhD, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands and Inge R. Boulet, PhD, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
10:20-10:45	Yoram Rudy, PhD Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Director of the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center, Washington University, St. Louis, USA H. J. J. Wellens Visiting Professor at Maastricht University 2008 - 2009	How to understand and model structure-function relations of cardiac ion channels?
10:45-11:05	Jordi Heijman, MSc PhD student at Maastricht University and Washington University in St. Louis	The ventricular action potential and beta-adrenergic receptor modulation
11:05-11:25	Ronald Wilders, PhD Assistant Professor of Physiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam	Dynamic action-potential clamp to investigate bio-pacemaker activity
11:25-11:45	Coffee break with "Limburgse vlaai"
Session 2: Modeling of Activation and Repolarization in Cardiac Tissue Chairman: Tammo Delhaas, MD, PhD, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
11:45-12:15	Alexander V. Panfilov, PhD Associate Professor of Theoretical Biology, Utrecht University Honorary Professor of Mathematics, University of Dundee, Scotland	A 3D model of electrical activation of the human heart
12:15-12:35	Sander Verheule, PhD Assistant Professor of Physiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands	Modeling of atrial conduction under physiological and pathological conditions
12:35-12:55	Nico H. L. Kuijpers, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Maastricht University, The Netherlands	Mechano-electrical feedback during cardiac remodeling
12:55-14:30	Lunch
Session 3: Signal Analysis, Processing and Reverse Engineering Chairs: Ronald L. Westra, PhD, Maastricht University, The Netherlands and Peter van Leeuwen, PhD, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
14:30-14:50	Ralf L. M. Peeters, PhD Associate Professor of Mathematics, Maastricht ICT Competence Centre, Maastricht University, The Netherlands	Wavelet analysis of cardiac electrograms
14:50-15:10	Wouter A. Serdijn, PhD Associate Professor of Information and Communication Technology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands	Low-power adaptive circuits for cardiac implantable devices
15:10-15:30	Martin Bürger, PhD Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany	Reconstruction of transmembrane potentials in the heart from ECG data
15:30-15:50	Coffee / Tea
Session 4: ECG Imaging Chairman: Hein J. J. Wellens, MD, PhD, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, The Netherlands
15:50-16:15	Yoram Rudy, PhD Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Director of the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center, Washington University, St. Louis, USA H. J. J. Wellens Visiting Professor at Maastricht University 2008 - 2009	Basic principles of ECG imaging from the viewpoint of computational modeling
16:15-16:35	Phillip S. Cuculich, MD Fellow, Cardiovascular Diseases and Electrophysiology, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA	Cardiologist's view on ECG imaging: perspectives and limitations
16:35-16:45	Hein J. J. Wellens, MD, PhD Emeritus Professor of Cardiology Honorary Chairman of the Workshop	The final word
16:45	Drinks and diner