Cardiac Non-Linear Dynamics Meeting April 11 - 13, 2001,Vanderbilt University
The attendees take a break for lunch at Cheekwood's Pineapple Room

    During our two days of meetings, the following topics were discussed:

• Abhijit Patwardhan:(not pictured)  Spatiotemporal variability of activation intervals during VF
• Alain Karma:  Nonlinear dynamics of discordant alternans: numerical and analytical models
• Flavio Fenton:  Simulations of AP's in 2D, 3D and anatomical models + mechanisms of spiral wave breakup
• Guy Salama:  Mapping voltage and Cai in perfused hearts. Cai handling during alternans and drug-induced long QT
• Harold Hastings:  Defibrillation (some experimental results) and refibrillation (possible lessons from the onset of fibrillation)
• Marcella Woods:  The effects of external electrical shocks on rabbit myocardium (Friday)
• Mark Bray:  Topological defects in excitable media: methods of localization and interaction analysis
• Matt Kay:  The effect of activation wave front curvature on APD restitution
• Natalia Trayanova:  Shock induced arrhythmogenesis
• Rick Gray:  Phase Resetting, Restitution, and Fibrillation in the Rabbit Heart