[Opensim-announcement] Upcoming OpenSim Events, Update from TGCS, and Funding Opportunity

[Announcements of the availability of OpenSim updates and resources]

*Webinar: Simulation-Based Design of Devices to Enhance a Standing Long
Jump*
*Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time*
Carmichael Ong (Stanford University) will describe his optimization
framework for synthesizing human standing long jumps and designing devices
to improve performance. Read more and register.
<http://web.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/event_details.html?id=139>

*OpenSim Workshop at CMBBE in Montreal on September 3*
*Title: OpenSim for Muscle-Driven Multibody Dynamics and Control: Overview
and Hands-On Example*
Ian Stavness (University of Saskatchewan), Matt DeMers, and James Dunne
(Stanford University) are leading a workshop at the International Symposium
on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (CMBBE) in
Montreal, Canada. The hands-on workshop will show users how to perform
forward dynamic simulations of movement that include contact modeling and
muscle stretch reflexes. Learn more about the event and find out how to
register.
<http://web.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/event_details.html?id=133>

*OpenSim Workshop at the Summer School on Neurorehabilitation in Valencia,
Spain, September 13-18*
Massimo Sartori (University Medical Center Göttingen) and Monica
Reggiani (University of Padova) are leading a workshop at the Summer School
in Neurorehabilitation in Valencia, Spain. This three-day hands-on workshop
will introduce participants to the theory behind modeling and simulation of
human musculoskeletal function in OpenSim, along with the framework of the
software architecture and functionalities. Learn more about the event and
find out how to register.
<http://web.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/event_details.html?id=135>

*OpenSim Workshop at SIAMOC 2015 in Padova, Italy on October 3*
Massimo Sartori and Monica Reggiani are leading a workshop at the XVI
Congress of the Italian Society of Clinical Movement Analysis (SIAMOC) in
Padova, Italy. This half-day workshop will introduce participants to
musculoskeletal modeling and simulation in OpenSim, including some of the
typical workflows. Learn more about the event and find out how to register.
<http://web.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/event_details.html?id=137>

*Funding Opportunity: Computational Models of Muscle Physiology during
Human Spaceflight*
Proposals are sought to develop numerical algorithms or models that can
predict changes in properties of lower body skeletal muscles as a function
of (1) time in microgravity and (2) a predetermined amount of in-flight
exercise stimulus. Step 1 proposals are due on September 4, 2015.
Learn more.
<http://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/funding-opportunities/computational-models-muscle-physiology-human-spaceflight>

*OpenSim featured in talks at the ISB Technical Group on Computer
Simulation *
The Technical Group on Computer Simulation met from July 9-11 in Edinburgh,
Scotland. Thirteen (out of 27) talks at the Symposium featured OpenSim.
Some of the topics included analysis and control of prosthetics,
subject-specific modeling, task-based control, and joint contact force
prediction. See a full list of abstracts here
<http://simtk-confluence.stanford.edu:8080/display/OpenSim/OpenSim+Featured+in+Talks+at+ISB+2015>
.

*Correction*: We incorrectly reported that Katherine Steele received the
David Winter Young Investigator Award at the 2015 Congress of the
International Society of Biomechanics. Dr. Steele was nominated for the
award. Congratulations to Kelly Larkin-Kaiser for her winning talk, "Larger
isoforms of titin are associated with increased sarcomere lengths and
severity of hip displacement in cerebral palsy."

-- 
*Jennifer Hicks, Ph.D.*
Director of Data Science | Mobilize Center <http://mobilize.stanford.edu>
Associate Director | NCSRR
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/about/index.html>
R&D Manager | OpenSim <http://opensim.stanford.edu/>
Stanford University
650-498-4403 | jenhicks at stanford.edu
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