Thursday, August 12, 2004
2:00p.m., Room 322
 
Speaker: Andrew Sornborger, University of Georgia
 
Title of talk: Mathematical aspects of electrical excitation and wave propagation in  the heart
 
Abstract: This talk is meant to give a preview of the fall VIGRE group  that I'll be running. 
I'll be talking about both the cellular basis for  electrical excitation (on small scales): how a 
cell generates an  electrical field, how the field can propagate from one cell to another.  I'll 
also talk about how the electrical activity in cardiac tissue (on  large scales) is put to use in 
the heart and ways in which it can fail.