EMBC 2008

Message from The Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference Management System

Message originated by Jodi Janiszewski

Dear Mr. Stolka

Congratulations!! Your paper entitled:

First 3D Ultrasound Scanning, Planning, and Execution of
CT-free Milling Interventions with a Surgical Robot, (786)

has been accepted for presentation at the 30th Annual
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society to be held in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, 20th - 24th August, 2008.

Below are the details of your presentation:

Robotic Surgery 08: Bio-robotics; Surgical Planning and
Orthopedic Biomechanics Contributed paper
[...]

Mozzarella Attacks!

Today, I was attacked by the mozzarella ciabatta I bought as afternoon snack in the Cafeteria of the Universität Bayreuth mensa. Look at this!

Ökologisch-Botanischer Garten

The other (Sun)day, I stumbled across the weekly public opening hours of our university's "Ökologisch-Botanischer Garten" or horto-eco-botanical garden. It stunned me to find a completely new and first-grade attraction in BT after that many years.

What's more, the last times my family came over for a visit, I was scratching my head to find some appropriate tourist attraction somewhere in this region, and had to search further and further afield... and now it turned out there is a great place right next door. Literally next door: The garden is right behind the new Computing Science building on campus. I have been passing it by on the way to and from campus every day, as it's occupying at least half of the area encircled by the Southern Bayreuth tangent road. It's a huge complex made up of several greenhouses containing small-scale climate zone representations and a large outdoor area combining the typical botanical features from several continents into an afternoon's walk.

Although it might be not as exceptional in reality, the only other place I have seen something similar before was the Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton, Canada, some years ago.


Australian Outback


Rain Forest


More Rain Forest


Canary Islands Cloud Forest


Some, uh, mixed stuff in a dry place


Outdoors - A very true reconstruction of a Canadian Rocky Mountains Forest


Outdoors - A Gingko tree in Bayreuth


Outdoors - Poppy flowers, in what was called a "Pest Plants Field"


Outdoors - Wheat


The Greenhouses

Kunst am Bau / Architectural Art (?)

The new Computing Science building our research group has moved to is nearing completion. Recently, the mandatory "Kunst am Bau" or architectural art was installed.

It's a huge text installation circling the main entrance hall, with XML code lines crawling along the walls. They are a textual representation of an SVG-format CAD blueprint drawing of the building. While there might be some disagreement about the extent, coloration, or obviousness of this piece, it is undeniably computer-scientific.

Sneezing Panda

This one goes without words. Switch on your loudspeakers first.