Program & Presentation Slides: June 1 – 2

Thursday, June 1, 2017

MIT Wong Auditorium, Tang Center, Room E51-115


8:00

Arrival and Registration:  Foyer of Wong Auditorium

8:45

Welcome and Introductions

Paula Hammond, Head, Department of Chemical Engineering

Richard Braatz, Department of Chemical Engineering


Session 1

Chair: Frank Doyle, John A. & Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor and Dean of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University

9:00 

George’s Impact

Manfred Morari, Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

9:30

George-san, Our CTO: His Work and Legacy at Mitsubishi Chemical, and Our Vision for the Future

Eiji Tanaka, Kaiteki Institute, Mitsubishi Chemical Holding Co, Japan

10:00    

No Equations, No Variables, No Parameters, No Space, and No Time: Data and the Modeling of Complex Systems

Yannis Kevrekidis, Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

10:30  

Process Modeling: Where to Next?

Costas Pantelides, Managing Director, Process Systems Enterprise Ltd., and Professor of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK


11:00 – 11:30      Break: Foyer of Wong Auditorium


Session 2

Chair: Mayuresh Kothare, R. L. McCann Professor of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University

11:30

The Vista of Chemical Product Design in 2040

Ka Ming Ng, Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

12:00   

The Personalized Chemical Products Industry in 2040

Kevin Joback, Founder and President, Molecular Knowledge Systems, Inc., Bedford, NH

12:30    

Design and Control of Micro Chemical Processes

Shinji Hasebe, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan


13:00 – 14:00      Lunch Break: Foyer of Wong Auditorium


Session 3

Chair: Youngsub Lim, Professor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea

14:00

The Future of Process Optimization

Larry Biegler, Bayer University Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

14:30

Complexity and Hierarchies

Yaman Arkun, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koc University, Turkey

15:00

Bayesian Process Engineering

Matthew Realff, Professor and David Wang Sr. Fellow, School of Chemical and Biomoleculer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology


15:30 – 16:00      Break: Foyer of Wong Auditorium


Session 4

Chair: Daniel Rivera, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University

16:00

Process Operations: A Roadmap from the Present to a Hyper-connected Future

Gabriela Henning, Director of INTEC, Argentina

16:30

Distributed Decisions and the Adaptive Enterprise

Erik Ydstie, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

17:00

The Internet-of-Things and Process Control – Using Real and Statistical Intelligence

Christos Georgakis, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University

17:30

Real-time Decision-making under Uncertainty: An Adventure in Big Data Analytics or an Opportunity for Mathematical Programming?

Stratos Pistikopoulos, TEES Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University



Dinner Program – Thursday, June 1, 2017
Samberg Conference Center, MIT E-52

The Unauthorized Biography of George Stephanopoulos: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
by Nikos and Elvie Stephanopoulos



Friday, June 2, 2017

MIT Wong Auditorium, Tang Center, Room E51-115


8:00

Registration:  Foyer of Wong Auditorium

8:45

Introduction


Session 5

Chair: Evan Zafiriou, TGS Management Co., Irvine, CA

9:00      

Manufacturing and the PSE Community: A Critical Linkage

Tom Edgar, The George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in Engineering, Director, Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin.

9:30

A Vision of Advanced Manufacturing

Richard Braatz, Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

10:00

Asset Optimization for the Process Industries: From Data to Insights to Actions

Bill Mock and Ashok Rao, Aspen Technology Inc., Burlington, MA


10:30 – 11:00      Break: Foyer of Wong Auditorium


Session 6     

Chair: Pablo Rolandi, Director of process Developments, Amgen Inc., Cambridge, MA

11:00

Prospects and Challenges for Process Systems Engineering in Healthcare

Rex Reklaitis, Burton and Kathryn Gedge Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University

11:30

Systems Approaches in Biology and Medicine

Daehee Hwang, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

12:00

Mathematical Models – Conversations between Minds and Machines

Andreas Linninger, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago


12:30 – 13:30      Lunch Break: Foyer of Wong Auditorium


Session 7

Chair: Ali Abbas, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia

13:30

The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in PSE: Is it here, finally?

Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering, Columbia University

14:00

Mad Max, Star Trek, Big Brother, or Ecotopia: The Role of PSE in Enabling Future Scenarios

Bhavik Bakshi, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio State University

14:30

PSE as the Modern Euryphaessa in Guiding Humans Past Prometheus’ Paradigm and the Climate Change Tautology

Vasilios Manousiouthakis, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA


15:00 – 15:30      Break: Foyer of Wong Auditorium


Session 8

Chair: Michael Nikolaou, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston

15:30

New Optimization Paradigms for Formulation, Solution, Data and Uncertainty Integration, and Results Interpretation

Ignacio Grossmann, Rudolf R. and Florence Dean University Professor of  Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

16:00

Process Systems Engineering in the Information Age

Jim Rawlings, Steenbock Professor and W. Harmon Ray Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin

16:30

The Paradigm after Next: 50 Years On

Mike Doherty, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara


17:00 – 17:15      Break: Foyer of Wong Auditorium


Session 9     

Chair: Richard Braatz, Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

17:15

Farewell Lecture

George Stephanopoulos


18:00 – 19:00      Reception: Foyer of Wong Auditorium