Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder that Confex is now open to submit abstracts to AIChE 2009 Annual Meeting. New submissions may be entered until Monday, May 11, 2009 at 11:59pm (EST). 2009 AIChE Annual Meeting November 8-13, 2009 Gaylord Opryland Hotel Nashville, TN To submit an abstract, follow the instructions given at: http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2009/cfp.cgi A list of 17 contributed sessions primarily sponsored by Area 10b is given below. Masoud Soroush 2009 CAST 10b Program Coordinator ----------------- Masoud Soroush Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 895-1710 (215) 895-5837 (fax) [log in to unmask] http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~soroushm/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 10B00 Smart Plant Operations ---------------------------- Chair: P. Christofides Co-Chair: Christopher Rao 10B01 Networked Process Control ------------------------------- Chair: Nael El-Farra Co-Chair: Edward Gatzke 10B02 Control and Optimization of Multi-Scale Systems ------------------------------------------------------ Chair: Antonios Armaou Co-Chair: Vinay Prasad 10B03 Modeling and Identification --------------------------------- Chair: Richard Braatz Co-Chair Leo Chiang 10B04 Batch Process Control --------------------------- Chair: Oscar D. Crisalle Co-Chair: Michael Baldea 10B05 Modeling and Control of Biomedical Systems ------------------------------------------------ Chair: Robert Parker Co-Chair: Jin Wang 10B06 Modeling and Control of Energy Systems --------------------------------------------- Chair: Michael Baldea Co-Chair: Prodromos Daoutidis 10B07 Dynamics and Control of Fuel Cells ---------------------------------------- Chair: Mithun Kamat Co-Chair: Manish Sinha 10B08 Advances in Process Control ---------------------------------- Chair: Prashant Mhaskar Co-Chair: Michael Henson 10B09 Process Control Applications ----------------------------------- Chair: Martha Grover Co-Chair: Donald J. Chmielewski 10B10 Topics in Systems and Control (Poster Session) ---------------------------------------------------- Chair: M. Soroush Co-Chair: J.P. Congalidis 10B11 Systems Biology ---------------------- Chair: Juergen Hahn Co-Chair: David H. Gay 10B12 Control for Business and Financial Objectives ---------------------------------------------------- Chair: Jeffery C. Kantor Co-Chair: Erik Ydstie 10B13 Control and Estimation Performance Assessment ---------------------------------------------------- Chair: Edward Gatzke Co-Chair: Vikas Shukla 10B14 Process Monitoring and Fault Detection --------------------------------------------- Chair: Nael El-Farra Co-Chair: Peter He 10B15 Economically Optimizing Control and Understandability Visualizations --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: Donald Bartusiak Co-Chair: Robert E. Young 10B16 Industrial Perspectives - Understanding and Acceptance of Multivariable Optimization and Control ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Chair: Peyton C. Richmond Co-Chair: John R. Richards