A very wide variety of research interests on these frontiers are being pursued by University of California faculty. Many such interests have the potential for becoming or contributing to innovative industrial initiatives. The goal of this conference/mixer is to bring together UC faculty and people from California industries who might wish to explore possibilities for collaborative R&D. We hope that some of these contacts will stimulate collaborative project proposal developments over the summer for the LS:IT, BioSTAR, DiMI, and other sectors of UC's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (IUCRP). .

Presentations begin at 9:00 A.M., after coffee and an informal mixer that begins at 8:30 A.M. During lunch and informal meetings thereafter, we hope to facilitate discoveries of common R&D interests among industrial and faculty attendees. If there are requests to do so from people who are planning to attend, we will seek to arrange visits to various laboratories at UCLA where research of this type is being conducted. The conference/mixer is supported by IUCRP; there are no fees.

The keynote speaker for Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging is Professor Sanjiv Gambhir, Director of UCLA's Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging. His broad overview will include a variety of interesting research examples. Other faculty will focus on some individual projects.

The keynote speaker for the University of California's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (IUCRP) is Dr. Susanne Huttner, its Executive Director, and Associate Vice Provost for Research. In addition, there will be presentations by representatives of some of the IUCRP sectors that might individually or jointly support various biomedical imaging projects, e.g. LS:IT, BioSTAR, DiMI.

These people will be available at lunch and thereafter for discussions with individuals attending the conference.

As noted in the attached registration form, we very much encourage both faculty and corporation attendees to write a brief description of their R&D interests. We will send a compilation of these by e-mail to all before the conference, with an invitation to let us know if there are certain people at the conference that they would like to meet. We will do our best to arrange such meetings, and possibly visits to some of UCLA's laboratories in the afternoon.