Short visits to other research groups and meetings outside CBA
Note: Meetings occassioned by permanent appointments are listed in section 7.11

1. Most personell at CBA 
   Host: Uppsala Imanet, "PET-centrum'' 
   Address: Uppsala Imanet, Uppsala Science Park 
   Date: 060110 
   Topic: The "Lucia-visit'' of CBA.
2. Ewert Bengtsson 
   Address: Vetenskapsrådet, The Swedish Research Council conference room, Stockholm 
   Date: 060117 
   Topic: Hearing with evaluation committee for medical engineering.
3. Gunilla Borgefors 
   Host: Jürgen Goebbels, Dieter Scharnweber 
   Address: Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung m.b.H. (BESSY), Adlershof, Berlin, Germany 
   Date: 060126-27 
   Topic: Investigating the possibility of using micro-CT images from BESSY to quantify bone implant healing
   Comments: Travelled with Carina Johansson, Örebro University.
4. Ewert Bengtsson 
   Date: 060217 
   Address: The Swedish Society of Physicians, Stockholm 
   Title: Witness seminar about the history of IT in biomedicine in Sweden 
   Comment: People involved in the early development of IT for biomedical applications were invited to testify for a group collecting material for the project "History of IT in Sweden''.
5. Ingela Nyström 
   Hosts: Fredrik Georgsson, Christina Olsén 
   Address: Dept. of Computer Science, Umeå University 
   Date: 060221 
   Topic: Planning of SSBA Symposium.
6. Joakim Lindblad 
   Host: Gustaf Forsberg 
   Address: SeedGard AB, Uppsala 
   Date: 060222 
   Topic: Seed vitality 
   Comments: Concluding meeting for the seed vitality project.
7. Ewert Bengtsson 
   Host: Inger Kristoffersson 
   Address: City Hall, Uppsala 
   Date: 060223 
   Topic: Planning of a delegation to Nanying, China from Uppsala to discuss cooperation in the IT- and biotech areas. About 10 persons attending.
8. Ewert Bengtsson 
   Host: Inger Kristoffersson 
   Address: The Office of Foreign Relations, City of Nanying, China 
   Date: 060301-0308 
   Topic: Delegation to Nanying 
   Comments: Representing UU on this delegation trip, meeting many researchers and companies interested in collaboration. A delegation of 12 persons from Uppsala.
9. Stina Svensson, Magnus Gedda 
   Hosts: Ulf Skoglund, Lars-Göran Öfverstedt 
   Address: Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 
   Date: 060302 
   Topic: Discussions and information on collaboration project.
10. Stina Svensson, Anders Berggren 
    Host: Jonas Brändström 
    Address: Dept. of Wood Science, SLU 
    Date: 060303 
    Topic: Follow up meeting for master thesis work (Anders Berggren).
11. Stina Svensson 
    Host: Duccio Fanelli, Sara Sandin, Ulf Skoglund 
    Address: Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 
    Dates: 060304 and 060403 
    Topic: Discussion on the common project: automated extraction of geometrical features of proteins from cryo electron tomographic data.
12. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Address: Gimo Herrgård 
    Date: 060307 
    Topic: Meeting of the deans of UU. All of UU leadership was present. Bengtsson present on behalf of Virtual IT-faculty.
13. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Host: Mats Fredriksson 
    Address: Biomedical Centre Uppsala 
    Date: 060320 
    Topic: Planning the response from the Faculty of Science and Technology to the proposed Uppsala Brain Centre.
14. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Host: Jan-Otto Carlsson 
    Address: Office of the Dean 
    Date: 060327 
    Topic: Discussion about possibility of transferring Geoinformatics to CBA and of creating a visualisation lab.
15. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Address: Eklundshof, Uppsala 
    Date: 060329 
    Topic: Science and its cultures 
    Comment: A seminar summing the results from the 6 year project "Science and technology in school'' for which Bengtsson has participated in the board meetings.
16. Kristin Norell, Hamid Sarve, Erik Vidholm 
    Address: Centre for Gender Research, UU 
    Date: 060404 
    Topic: Varför är det manligt att programmera?
    Comment: Seminar by Inger Boivie attended by the CBA equality group through Vidholm and Norell.
17. Kristin Norell 
    Host: Ari Karjula 
    Address: Heby Sawmill, Heby 
    Date: 060406 
    Topic: Collecting images at Heby saw mill together with Lars Björklund (VMR).
18. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Host: Doris Dongsheng Yang, Director of International Cooperation 
    Address: Jiading Campus, Shanghai, China 
    Date: 060407 
    Topic: Visit to Tongji University, Shanghai, China 
    Comments: Discussing the experiences from the exchange of students between UU IT-department and Tongji Univ.
19. Erik Vidholm  
    Host: Daniel Evestedt, Mark Dixon, Tommy Forsell, Johan Beskow 
    Address: SenseGraphics, Kista, Sweden 
    Topic: Discussion about haptics programming and volume visualization. Karljohan Lundin, Norrköping Visualization and Interaction Studio, Linköping University, also attended the meetings. (2 meetings during the year.)
20. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Host: Inger Kristoffersson 
    Address: City Hall, Uppsala 
    Date: 060426 
    Topic: Follow up meeting on the delegation trip to Nanying.
21. Gunilla Borgefors 
    Host: Phil Salmon 
    Address: SkyScan, Aartselaar (Antwerpen), Belgium 
    Date: 060426-28 
    Topic: Investigating the possibilities of using microtomography images from SkyScan for evaluating bone implants (and paper structure). 
    Comments: Carina Johansson, Örebro University, also participated.
22. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Host: Christer Busch 
    Address: Dept. of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Lab, UU 
    Date: 060428 
    Topic: Discussion about possible renewed cooperation on histopathology image analysis. Petter Ranefall, AstraZeneca Research and Development, Mölndal, also attended.
23. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Address: Stockholm City Hall 
    Date: 060511 
    Topic: Bengtsson attended the Stockholm Challenge Award Price Ceremony.
24. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Address: The office of the vice chancellor 
    Date: 060512 
    Topic: Information about the possibilities of a new research position on brain image analysis at UU with Bo Sundqvist, Håkan Ahlström, Ulf Petterson and Mats Fredrikson also attended.
25. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Address: The Castle Gardens, Uppsala 
    Date: 060512 
    Topic: Informal discussion with Anders Hallberg about future IT strategy for UU.
26. Ewert Bengtsson and Carolina Wählby 
    Host: Michael Grunkin and Niels Foged 
    Address: Visiopharm, Copenhagen, Denmark 
    Date: 060529 
    Topic: Discussions on cooperation 
    Comments: The meeting was the first exchange of ideas for the recently granted EU ENLIGHT project.
27. Ewert Bengtsson
    Address: Ångström Laboratory
    Date: 060531 
    Topic: Fuel cell and membrane design 
    Comments: Bengtsson helped arrange this informal seminar with Sergei Lvov, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA, and people working on the same topic as this visitor.
28. Stina Svensson 
    Host: Duccio Fanelli 
    Address: Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 
    Date: 060606 
    Topic: Discussions and information on collaboration project.
29. Maria Axelsson, Filip Malmberg, Joakim Lindblad and Stina Svensson 
    Host: Jussi Timonen and Tuomas Turpeinen 
    Address: Dept. of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland 
    Date: 060609-10 
    Topic: Research visit 
    Comments: Visit to the group working with paper and fibrous material at Dept. of Physics in Jyväskylä, Finland in order to establish a possible collaboration.
30. Erik Vidholm  
    Host: Gunnar Jansson 
    Address: Dept. of Psychology, UU 
    Date: 060615 
    Topic: Discussion about haptics and perception. Ulrika Dreifaldt, Interaction Design Center, University of Limerick, Ireland, also attended.
31. Ingela Nyström 
    Host: Gabor Szekely 
    Address: Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 
    Date: 060620-21 
    Topic: Study visit of the Computer Vision Laboratory. 
    Comments: Many projects were presented on medical image analysis, haptic visualization, and augmented reality.
32. Stina Svensson, Joakim Lindblad, Gunilla Borgefors 
    Host: Geoffrey Daniel, Stig Bardage 
    Address: Dept. of Wood Science (TRV), SLU 
    Date: 060809 
    Topic: Future joint research. 
    Comments: General discussion of possible future cooperation.
33. Joakim Lindblad 
    Host: Jonas Sahlsten 
    Address: Dept. of Population Biology and Conservation Biology, UU 
    Date: 060818 
    Topic: Research visit 
    Comments: Discussion regarding methods to describe and analyse shapes of bird habitats.
34. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Address: Uppsala Learning Lab, UU 
    Date: 060829 
    Topic: Meeting about the need of a portal for employees of UU.
35. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Address: Uppsala Science Park 
    Date: 060830 
    Topic: Meeting for "peer-coaching'' within the Vinnova key actors program to promote exploitation of university research results.
36. Erik Vidholm 
    Host: Andrew Mehnert 
    Address: University of Queensland, ITEE, Brisbane, Australia 
    Date: 060906-14 
    Topic: Work on dynamic MR sequences of breast.
37. Stina Svensson and Magnus Gedda 
    Host: Ulf Skoglund 
    Address: Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 
    Date: 060907 
    Topic: Project updating and future plans.
38. Stina Svensson 
    Address: SLU, Umeå (by phone) 
    Date: 060913 
    Topic: Contact persons for postgraduate studies, SLU.
39. Ingela Nyström 
    Host: Eva Pärt-Enander 
    Address: Uppsala Learning Lab, UU 
    Date: 060921 
    Topic: Available IT techniques at ULL.
40. Kristin Norell, Stina Svensson 
    Host: Kim Dralle 
    Address: Dralle A/S Cognitive Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark 
    Date: 060926 
    Topic: Meeting about the joint project on detecting rot in log end images. 
    Comments: Also present was Anders Dahl and others from Dralle.
41. Amin Allalou 
    Hosts: Anton K. Raap and Frans van de Rijke 
    Address: Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 
    Date: 061004-06 
    Topic: Discussions on image based single cell analysis. 
    Comments: The visit was part of the ENLIGHT project to exchange ideas and define the needs for an image based single cell analysis system based on new functionality developed at CBA and integrated with the Visiopharm VIS platform.
42. Kristin Norell 
    Address: SLU 
    Date: 061005 
    Topic: Könsroller i arbetslivet - Om kvinnligt och manligt i ledarrollen. 
    Comment: A seminar by Bodil Wennberg, Emotional Intelligence AB. This was a part of a seminar series for PhD students at SLU about leadership.
43. Stina Svensson 
    Host: Duccio Fanelli 
    Address: Dept. of Energetic, University of Florence, Florence, Italy 
    Date: 061016-20 
    Topic: Joint work.
44. Carolina Wählby 
    Host: David Mitchell and Ida-Maria Sintorn 
    Address: CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia 
    Date: 061018 
    Topic: Discussions on future cooperations
45. Joakim Lindblad 
    Host: Nataša Sladoje, Silvia Ghilezan 
    Address: Centre of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Serbia 
    Date: 061029-1101 
    Topic: Research visit 
    Comments: Joint research project and invited speaker at the Seminar of Mathematics and Statistics.
46. Hamid Sarve, Joakim Lindblad, Carina Johansson 
    Host: Felix Beckmann 
    Address: Deutsches Electronen-Syncrotron, Hamburg, Germany 
    Date: 061031-1103 
    Topic: SR$\mu$CT-scanning 
    Comments: Beamtime at Deutsches Electronen- Syncrotron in Hamburg for three days.
47. Erik Vidholm, Ingela Nyström 
    Host: Sven Nilsson
    Address: Dept. of Radiology, UU Hospital 
    Date: 061031 
    Topic: Discussion about liver segmentation.
48. Ewert Bengtsson, Erik Vidholm 
    Host: Anders Magnusson 
    Address: Dept. of Radiology, UU Hospital 
    Date: 061107 
    Topic: Discussion about a possible joint project and application on 3D modelling of breasts based on CT for reconstructive surgery after cancer operations.
49. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Date: 061121 
    Address: UU main building 
    Topic: The pedagogial education and experience of PhD students. 
    Comment: A half day meeting about university policy to ensure that PhD students get proper pedagogical training.
50. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Host: Johanna Lundmark, UU 
    Address: Uppsala Science Park 
    Date: 061123 
    Topic: UU reference group for the Swedish Science Net project.
51. Hamid Sarve 
    Host: Carina Johansson 
    Address: Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg 
    Date: 061124 
    Topic: Discussions on the bone implant project. 
    Comments: Discussed some issues with Carina Johansson and paid visit to their laboratory.
52. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Host: Jan Hirsch
    Address: UU Hospital 
    Date: 061129 
    Topic: Meeting with three surgeons about possible cooperation on 3D modelling in head surgery.
53. Carolina Wählby 
    Host: Björn Eriksson, Ann-Catrin Svensson, Peter Karlberg and Mats Gullberg 
    Address: Olink AB, Uppsala 
    Date: 061206 
    Topic: Simple software for image based PLA-analysis. 
    Comments: Olink AB makes kits for proximity-ligation assays (PLA). Software tools are needed for efficient readout of the signals from the PLA. Ideas for such software were discussed, and a first Matlab-based version was created by CW and installed at Olink 061214.
54. Kristin Norell 
    Host: Björn Hannrup 
    Address: Skogforsk, Uppsala 
    Date: 061211 
    Topic: Meeting together with Lars Björklund (VMR) and Christina Lundgren (VMR) about methods on measuring timber.
55. Ewert Bengtsson 
    Host: Anders Hallberg
    Address: Uppsala Castle and the Ångström Laboratory 
    Date: 061213 
    Topic: Bengtsson attended a lecture by the Nobel Laureates in Physics and lunch in their honour at the Uppsala Castle.