Dear Colleagues,



Wayne Bequette was recently named Meeting Program Chair for the 2014 

AIChE Meeting in Atlanta.  Because of his new assignment, Wayne has 

asked me and I agreed to transition early as the new CAST Programming 

Chair, effective last month.  On behalf of all of us, I wanted to 

express many thanks to Wayne for his programming efforts and for 

agreeing to continue to provide advice during the transition.



One of the initiatives that I will be handling as CAST Programming Chair 

is the new area chair selection procedure, which was unanimously 

supported by the CAST Executive Community at the Fall 2012 meeting. 

Future program coordinators will be selected by a voting process that 

follows an open request for nominations that begins at least eight weeks 

before the AIChE Fall Annual Meeting.  When you send me your 

nominations, please first ensure that your nominees are willing to serve 

if elected.





Best wishes,



Nick Sahinidis