THE SCHOOL VENUE

KNRTU, K.Marks str., 72

build. B, Conference hall, room O-103

REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS

une, 17, 10:00-13:30 K.Marks str., 72, build. B, floor 2

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (KNRTU)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS OF CAPSE-2013 SCHOOL – LEADING INTERNATIONAL SCIENTISTS IGNACIO E. GROSSMANN Professor Ignacio E. Grossmann is the Dean University Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is Associate editor of AIChE Journal and member of editorial board of Computers and Chemical Enginering, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization and Engineering, Latin American Applied Research, and Process Systems Engineering Series. He obtained his B.S. degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Imperial College in 1975 and 1977. He joined Carnegie Mellon in 1979, and was Department Head of Chemical Engineering from 1994 to 2002. He is currently director of the "Center for Advanced Process Decision-making," an industrial consortium that involves over 20 companies. His research interests are in the areas of mixed-integer and logic-based optimization, stochastic programming, process synthesis, energy integration, and enterprise-wide optimization. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

LORENZ T. (LARRY) BIEGLER Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler is the Bayer University Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, which he joined after receiving his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. His research interests lie in computer aided process engineering (CAPE) and include flowsheet optimization, optimization of systems of differential and algebraic equations and algorithms for constrained, nonlinear process control. He is an author on over 300 archival publications and two books, and has given numerous invited presentations at national and international conferences. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Mathematical Optimization Society and the US National Academy of Engineering. He is Associate editor for the SIAM Journal of Optimization and Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research.

RAFIQUL GANI Rafiqul Gani is professor of systems design at the Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, The Technical University of Denmark and the head and co-founder of the Computer Aided Process Engineering Center (CAPEC). His current research interests include development of computer aided methods and tools for modelling, property estimation, process-product synthesis & design, and process-tools integration. He has published more than 175 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered over 200 lectures,seminars and plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences, institutions and companies all over the world. Professor Gani is editor-in-chief of the Computers and Chemical Engineering journal, editor for the Elsevier CACE book series and serves in the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Process Systems Engineering and Chemical Engineering Research Letters. Professor Gani is a member of the executive board of the EFCE (European Federation of Chemical Engineering), the scientific vice president of the EFCE, a member of the Board of Trustees of the AIChE and the CAChE Corp.; a Fellow of the AIChE and also a Fellow of IChemE.

GREGORY S. YABLONSKY Dr. Gregory Yablonsky is an Associate Research Professor of Chemistry at Parks College and the College of Arts and Sciences. Previously (1997-2007), he was a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering as Washington University in St. Louis. Gregory Yablonsky is a world recognized expert in the area of chemical kinetics and chemical engineering, in catalytic technology particularly. He has authored two monographs and more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. Honorary doctor degree from the University of Ghent (Belgium).

MICHAEL H. MANGOLD Since 1998 Michael H. Mangold is a member of Max Planck Institute Magdeburg, and in 2006 habilitated at Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, title of thesis: Computer Aided Modeling, Analysis and Control of Membrane Reactors and Fuel Cells". Since 2011 he is adjunct professor for System Dynamics at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He has authored two more than 100 papers on these topics.

Scientific School Objective To acquaint the academic, engineering, and business communities, postdocs and PhD students engaged in chemical engineering and system technique of chemical industry spheres with current situation, international tendencies and perspectives of development of Computer Aided Process System Engineering.

Main Topics of the Scientific School

-Mathematical Methods for Optimal Design (Synthesis) of Chemical Engineering Processes and Systems;

-Mathematical Methods for Optimal Control of Chemical Engineering Processes and Systems;

-Mathematical Methods of Catalytic Process Kinetics Study;

-Modern Software Tools for Mathematical Simulation and Optimization of Chemical-Engineering Processes and Systems.