Special Sessions follow the same format as Regular Sessions. The time frames are slots of 15 min for Contributed Lectures and 15 or 30 min for Invited Lectures.

A Special Session consists of 3 to 10 lectures that focus on specific emerging and/or hot topics in ultrasound not covered by the scope of Regular Sessions (e.g. interdisciplinary topics).

The collection of topical specific sessions forms the backbone of the congress"s scientific program. Volunteer organizers will develop their Special Session. The Special Session organizers are responsible for the technical content of their Special Session; they suggest invited lecturers to the Co-Chairs of the Scientific Committee, solicit appropriate contributed papers and review the dedicated submitted abstracts.

Invitation to become a Special Session Organizer

Persons with leading competence in a timely topic of ultrasonics are cordially invited to suggest Special Session titles and Invited Lecturers to the Co-Chairs of the ICU Scientific Committee, Prof. Wolfgang Sachse and Prof. Ewald Benes.

Current Preliminary List of Special Sessions

S01	Nonlinear elastic wave spectroscopy in NDT	Sigrun Hirsekorn
S02	Nonlinear acoustics of granular media	Vitalyi Gusev
S03	Ultrasound and nano-materials	Nico F. Declercq
S04	Non-destructive evaluation of anisotropic materials	A. G. Every, Nico F. Declercq
S05	On the way to miniaturization of thermoacoustic devices	Tesushi Biwa, Pierrick Lotton
S06	Ultrasonics for characterization of material aging	Leonhard J. Bond
S07	Modeling of performance demonstration for ultrasonic in-service inspection	Steve Doctor, Leonhard J. Bond
S08	Surface acoustic waves and emerging applications	Peter Hess
S09	Therapeutic applications of microbubbles and sonoporation	Ayache Bouakaz, Branka Devcic
S10	Applications of acoustic radiation force in imaging and material characterization	Mostafa Fatemi
S11	Safety and quality insurance of diagnostic ultrasound devices	Christian Kollmann
S12	Micro-manipulation of particles by ultrasonic fields	Jürg Dual, A. Neild
S13	Near-field acoustic microscopy	N.N.
S14	Ultrasound in microfluid devices	Thomas Laurell, Michiel Vellekoop
S15	Ultrasonics of fibre-reinforced composite materials	Igor Solodov
S16	Interface bonding and adhesion	Vitalyi Gusev
S17	Ultrasonics of bone	Pascal Laugier
S18	High intensity focused ultrasound HIFU	Larry Crum

2007 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics
April 9 - 11, 2007, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Institut für Allgemeine Physik, TU-Wien
ICU home page: http://www.ICUltrasonics.org/
e-Mail: office@ICUltrasonics.org
President of the ICU Board: Prof. Ewald Benes

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