Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Dr. Tyler Soderstrom of ExxonMobil Chemical Company has agreed to become the 2014 CAST 10B program coordinator. Please join me in congratulating Tyler for this appointment at [log in to unmask] Tyler's short biography is given below. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tyler Soderstrom received a Bachelors of Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1996, a Masters and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and 2001 respectively. Upon graduation he joined ExxonMobil Chemical Company in Baytown, Texas as an advanced control engineer. He has held various positions with a focus on linear and nonlinear control application development as well as role as a section supervisor for a control engineering group. Currently he is a Staff Engineer in the Core Engineering group in ExxonMobil Chemical Company and leads the nonlinear control program. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Panagiotis Panagiotis D. Christofides Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor of Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Boelter Hall 5532-F Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592