Sessions, Chairs, and Speakers
Click for Registration Information Click for Final Agenda Click for List of Poster Presentations Sunday, June 29thOpening Reception(6:00 - 7:30 PM)
Opening Session (7:30 - 9:00 PM)
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- Marianthi Ierapetritou, Rutgers University
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- William Pulleyblank, IBM
Hospitality(9:00 - 10:30 PM)
Monday, June 30thIntegration of Control, Scheduling and Planning (8:00 - 10:30 AM)
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- Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University
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- Iiro Harjunkoski, ABB Corporate Research
- Christos Marvelias, University of Wisconsin
- Laurence Wolsey, CORE - Université Catholique de Louvain
Break (10:30 - 11:00 AM)
Engineering Virtual Organization Panel Discussion (11:00 AM - 12 Noon)
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- Rex Reklaitis, Purdue University
- Tom Edgar, University of Texas at Austin
Lunch (on your own) (12 Noon - 1:30 PM)
Education Panel Discussion (1:30 - 2:30 PM)
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- Warren Seider, University of Pennsylvania
- Rex Reklaitis, Purdue University
Break (2:30 - 2:45 PM)
Enterprise-Wide Optimization (2:45 - 6:00 PM)
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- Costas Pantelides, Process Systems Enterprise
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- Lazaros Papageorgiou, University College London
- Iftekhar Karimi and Rajagopalan Srinivasan, National University of Singapore
- John Wassick, The Dow Chemical Company
- Stavros Stefanis, KPMG
Dinner (on your own) (6:00 - 7:30 PM)
Contributed Papers I (7:30 - 10:00 PM)
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- Ioannis Androulakis, Rutgers University
- Christos Maravelias, University of Wisconsin
Modeling, Optimization, and Information Technologies (9:00 - 11:45 AM)
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- Chris Floudas, Princeton University
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- David Gao, Virginia Tech
- Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin
- Josef Kallrath, BASF
Lunch (on your own) (11:45 AM - 1:30 PM)
Contributed Papers II (1:30 - 4:00 PM)
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- Matthew Realff, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Dimitrios Varvarezos, AspenTech
Forecasting, Finance, and Risk Management (4:00 - 6:45 PM)
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- Joe Pekny, Purdue University
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- Marty Hynes, Eli Lilly
- Greg McRae, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Gintaras Reklaitis, Purdue University
Banquet (7:30 - 10:00 PM)
Wednesday, July 2ndSustainable Resource Systems (8:00 - 10:45 AM)
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- Iiro Harjunkoski, ABB Corporate Research
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- Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University
- Andreas Linninger, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Ferdinand Lippert, BASF
Break (pick-up lunch provided) (10:45 - 11:15 AM)
Emerging Technologies (11:15 AM - 1:45 PM)
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- Costas Maranas, Penn State University
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- Ioannis Androulakis, Rutgers University
- Bob Parker, University of Pittsurgh
- Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University
Break (1:45 - 2:00 PM)
Closing Session (2:00 - 2:45 PM)
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- Matt Bassett, Dow AgroSciences
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- Wolfgang Marquardt, RWTH Aachen University
Conference Info
- FOCAPO 2008
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June 29 - July 2, 2008
Royal Sonesta Hotel (Boston)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Conference Chairs
- Marianthi Ierapetritou
- Rutgers University
- Matt Bassett
- Dow AgroSciences LLC
- Stratos Pistikopoulos
- Imperial College London
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