Program

10:20-11:50 a.m. Thursday February 9, 2006          Hawaiian Village Room		Vascular Mechanics Chair: Ralph Metcalfe — University of Houston Co-chair: Suncica Canic — University of Houston
	Mathematical Modeling of the Interaction between Viscoelastic Vessel Walls and Blood Flow
		S. Canic1, C.J. Hartley2, D. Rosenstrauch3, J. Tambaca4 and A. Mikelic5 — 1University of Houston, 2Baylor College of Medicine, 3UT Houston Medical School, 4University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia and 5University of Lyon, Lyon, France
	The Venous Response to Local Heat Is Not Biphasic in Nature
		A.R. Tullman, R.J. Widmer, J.E. Laurinec and C.M. Quick — TAMU, College Station
	Relating the Hyperemic Flow Response to Changes in Microvascular Radii
		C.S. Pettit, K.V. Desai, B.J. Sowers, E.S. Williams, P. Chaudhury and C.M. Quick — TAMU, College Station
	Light-induced Modulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Activity in Skin Microvasculature in-vivo
		P.H. Nguyen, B.K. Hegde, A.M. Venugopal and C.M. Quick — TAMU, College Station
	Lymphatic Contractions are Dependent on the Contraction Velocity of the Vein
		P.D. Pepper, R.M. Dongaonkar, P.H. Nguyen and C.M. Quick — TAMU, College Station