The StateView Hotel, Autograph Collection in Raleigh, NC
August 6 - 9, 2019

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A detailed downloadable program is now available. This program contains all of the beginning and ending times of the sessions and events.

Key Dates

Abstract Submission Opens: January 7, 2019
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 22, 2019 (extended)
Abstract Acceptance & Reviews Returned: May 29, 2019
Early Registration Deadline: June 7, 2019 (no extensions)
Revised Abstract Submission Deadline: July 1, 2019
Cut-off Date for Marriott Room Reservations: July 12, 2019
Deadline for Manuscript Submission for Special Issue: November 10, 2019

Accepted abstracts will presented as posters at FOPAM.

*Authors of accepted abstracts can submit a manuscript to a special issue of Computers and Chemical Engineering. See Poster Sessions & Special Issue page for details.

Agenda

Day Morning Afternoon Evening
Mon Aug 5, 2019   Day 1 of optional Workshop on “Process Data Analytics and Machine Learning”, taught by S. Joe Qin, Leo H. Chiang, and Richard D. Braatz Hospitality
Tue Aug 6, 2019 Day 2 of optional Workshop on “Process Data Analytics and Machine Learning”, taught by S. Joe Qin, Leo H. Chiang, and Richard D. Braatz Workshop (continued)

Opening Plenary Lecture

Session Chair: Phillip Westmoreland (NCSU)


Keith Collins (SAS)

AI Recipe to Navigate the Art of the Possible

Wed Aug 7, 2019

Materials Design

Session Chair: Johannes Hachmann (SUNY-Buffalo)


Alán Aspuru-Guzik (University of Toronto)

Materials for Tomorrow, Today


Paulette Clancy (Johns Hopkins University)

Use of Bayesian Optimization Approaches to Locate Polymorphs in Organic Electronic Materials


Panel Discussion: Session Speakers + David Ford (University of Arkansas)Use of Bayesian Optimization Approaches to Locate Polymorphs in Organic Electronic Materials

Poster Session 1

Session Chair: Alexander Dowling (University of Notre Dame)

Process Design

Session Chair: Selen Cremaschi (Auburn University)


Connor W. Coley (MIT)

Leveraging Historical Reaction Data to Inform Synthesis and Synthesis Design


Concepción Jiménez-González (GlaxoSmithKline)

Data Analytics in Sustainable Pharma Process Design and Operations


Panel Discussion: Session Speakers + Mario Eden (Auburn University)

Thu Aug 8, 2019

Process Monitoring
Session Chair: Thomas Badgwell (ExxonMobil)


Leo H. Chiang (Dow Chemical)

Current Practice and Future Directions in Industrial Process Monitoring


S. Joe Qin (University of Southern California)

Statistical Learning of Dynamic Latent Variables for Monitoring and Predictive Analytics


Panel Discussion: Session Speakers + Venkat Venkatasubramanian (Columbia University)

Poster Session 2
Session Chair: Seongkyu Yoon (UMass Lowell)

Control Design
Session Chair: Victor Zavala (UW-Madison)


Jay H. Lee (KAIST)

Reinforcement Learning – Overview and Potential for Process Systems Engineering Field


Melanie Zeilinger (ETH Zurich)

Learning-based Control with Constraints


Panel Discussion: Session Speakers + Rolf Findeisen (Otto von Guericke University)

Fri Aug 9, 2019

Business, Scheduling, and Supply Chain
Session Chair: Gintaras V. Reklaitis (Purdue University)


Marina Kovach (IBM)

Analytics in Healthcare and Life Sciences


Warren B. Powell (Princeton University)

A Unified Framework for Sequential Decision Analytics in Energy Systems


Panel Discussion: Session Speakers + David Frede (SAS)

Educating Students and Colleagues
Session Chair: Richard D. Braatz (MIT)


Michael Rappa (North Carolina State University)

Behold the Data Scientist!


Panel Discussion: Session Speakers + John Matranga (OSIsoft)
Kody Powell (University of Utah

Conference Banquet
+ after dinner remarks by Phillip Westmoreland and Martha Grover

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