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Colleagues, FOCAPO 2008 (Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations) (http://www.focapo.org) is the 5th international conference offered by the CACHE organization to review the advances and address the challenges of process operations. It will take place at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, MA between June 29th and July 2nd. There are a number of exciting invited speakers for the sessions to be held Monday to Wednesday, in addition to William Pulleybank from IBM being the Keynote speaker on Sunday evening. The sessions cover: Integration of Control, Scheduling, and Planning; Enterprise-Wide Optimization; Modeling, Optimization, and Information Technologies; Forecasting, Finance, and Risk Management; Sustainable Resource Systems; and Emerging Technologies. Registration is open and the room block is available for reservations. Registration prior to May 15th will save $100. As part of a National Science Foundation grant there are twenty (20), $250 travel grants available to graduate students who attend FOCAPO 2008. Awarding of the grants will be determined by the conference chairs based on a letter of recommendation from the student's advisor. Please see the website (http://www.focapo.org) for more details on the speakers, schedule of events, registration, and lodging for the conference. We look forward to seeing you in Boston. Sincerely, Matt Bassett Marianthi Ierapetritou Stratos Pistikopoulos Chairs, FOCAPO 2008