Reminder: Paper Submission Deadline - 28 March 2012.
 

The 5th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2012 will be held at
Royal Geographical Society in London on 1st and 2nd of July 2012. A
reminder that the deadline for your paper submission is 28th March
2012.

Topics to be addressed by the symposium include, but are not limited to:

· Clinical highlights in Urology, Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Surgery,
General Surgery, Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopaedic, and Paediatric Surgery

·         Flexible Robotics

·         Emerging, multi-specialty applications of robotic technology

·         Medical robotics for NOTES

·         Mechatronic designs for medical robotics

·         Microbot design and applications

·         Surgical simulation, training and skills assessment

·         Human robot interaction and ergonomics

·         Surgical navigation and augmented reality systems

·         Intra-operative imaging and biophotonics for robotic surgery

·         Medical image computing and computer assisted intervention

·         Economic and general consideration of robotic surgery

 

Important Dates

·           28 March 2012 Paper Submission Deadline

·           07 May 2012 Acceptance of Papers Announced

·           31 May 2012 Camera Ready Copy Deadline

·           30 June 2012 Workshops

·           01-02 July 2012 Hamlyn Symposium

Submission of Papers

Submissions are accepted on Clinical and Technical topics. The paper
submission site is accessible at
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/HSMR2012/Default.aspx .
Invited Speakers

·         Keynote: Professor Shigeo Hirose, Hirose Fukushima Lab

·         Professor Pierre DuPont, Children’s Hospital Boston,

·         Professor Howie Choset, Carnegie Melon University,

·         Professor Rick Satava, University of Washington

·         Dr Vipul Patel, Global Robotic Institute, Florida

More information can be found on the Hamlyn Symposium Website at
http://www.hamlyn-robotics.org/.

Workshops

As part of the Hamlyn Symposium 2012, there will be interactive and
hands-on half day workshops/tutorials organised at the Hamlyn Centre,
Imperial College London on Saturday, 30th of June and on Tuesday, 3rd
of July. The workshops will provide a great forum for academia,
industries and governing bodies to exchange ideas, promote emerging
research directions and present novel technologies in engineering and
medicine. To find out more information about workshops, the
provisional themes and to register for workshops, please visit
http://www.hamlyn-robotics.org/.

Accommodation for Symposium Delegates

We have provisionally held a number of rooms from 30th of June to 2nd
of July 2012 in The Kensington Hotel on 109-113 Queen’s Gate, South
Kensington, London SW7 5LR.  In order to confirm individual
reservations, it is expected that delegates contact the hotel directly
(Tel: +44 (0)207 969 3913; Email: Kensington@DoyleCollection.com) by
quoting the reference number IMPE300612 and make individual bookings
by providing their card details as a guarantee.  The rooms are subject
to availability and any unsold rooms will be released after 1st June
2012.
 

We look forward to receiving your abstract and welcoming you to the
5th Hamlyn Symposium in July 2012.

Best wishes,

Hamlyn Symposium Management Committee

www.hamlyn-robotics.org