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Co-Chairs:
  Ignacio E. Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon)
  Conor McDonald (Dupont)

Sponsors:

  CACHE
  CAST Division
  AICHE
  INFORMS
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Invited Papers - FOCAPO 2003

Sunday, January 12
4:30-6:00

Opening Session
Chair: I. Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University (Presentation)


Challenges and Opportunities for Enhanced Supply Chain Optimization
Dennis M. Houston*, Executive VP Refining and Supply, ExxonMobil


6:15-7:15 Reception
7:30-9:30

Pharamaceutical and Biotechnology R&D
Chair: Sangtae Kim, Eli Lilly



Application of 'Smart' High Throughput Technologies to Drug Substance and Drug Product Development
Colin Gardner*, TransForm Pharmaceuticals (Presentation)
Abstract

Systems engineering challenges and
opportunities in computational biology

Costas Maranas, Pennsylvania State University (Presentation)
Abstract
   
Monday, January 13
8:30-12:00

State of the Art in Supply Chain
Chair: Sunwon Park, KAIST
(Presentation)



Challenges of Strategic Supply Chain Planning and Modeling
Jeremy Shapiro*, Slim Technologies and MIT (Presentation)
Abstract

What is Missing to Enable Optimization of Inventory Deployment and Supply Planning?
Sridahr Tayur, Carnegie Mellon University (Presentation)
Abstract

Supporting supply chain planning and scheduling decisions in the oil and chemical industry
Winston Lasschuit and
Nort Thijssen*, Shell Global Solutions International (Presentation)
Abstract


1:30-4:00

Supply Chain Applications
Chair: Barbara Nyland, Dupont (Presentation)


An Integrated System Solution for Supply Chain Optimization in the Chemical Process Industry
Guido Berning, Markus Brandenburg, Korhan Gürsoy,
Jürgen Kussi, Vipul Mehta, Franz-Josef Tölle*, Bayer A.G. (Presentation)
Abstract

Supply Chain Optimization in Petroleum Refineries
S.M.S. Neiro* and Jose Pinto, Petrobras, and University of Sao Paulo (Presentation)
Abstract

Pharmaceutical supply chains: key issues and strategies for optimization
Nilay Shah, Imperial College (Presentation)
Abstract


7:30-10:00 Contributed papers 1
Co-chairs: Stratos Pistikopoulos, Imperial College
Joseph Pekny, Purdue University (Presentation)
   
Tuesday, January 14
8:30-12:00 Methodologies for Process Operations
Chair: Wolfgang Marquardt, RWTH Aachen
(Presentation)


Design of Process Operations Using Hybrid Dynamic Optimization
Paul I. Barton
and K.C. Lee, MIT (Presentation)
Abstract

Data Reconciliation and Instrumentation Upgrade. Overview and Challenges
Miguel Bagajewicz, University of Oklahoma (Presentation)
Abstract

Abnormal Events Management in Complex Process Plants: Challenges and Opportunities in Intelligent Supervisory Control
Venkat Venkatasubramanyan , Purdue University (Presentation)
Abstract


1:00-2:30 Contributed papers 2
2:30-4:00

Panel on Software vendors
Chairs: John Wassick, Dow; Bryn Stenhouse, BP

Vladimir Mahalec (Aspentech) (Please contact focapo2@andrew.cmu.edu if you wish to have a copy of this presentation), Heinrich Braun (SAP) (Presentation), Narayan Venkatasubramanya (i2) (Presentation)


4:30-6:00

Panel on Challenges and Opportunities in Industrial Academic
Research Collaborations

Chairs: Mark Daichendt (Presentation), Air Products; Luis Puigjaner, Polytechnic
Catalunya

Jaime Cerda, INTEC (Presentation); Chris Floudas, Princeton (Presentation); Sebastian Engell, Dortmund (Presentation); Oscar Rosen, Procter & Gamble (Presentation);
Bieng Tjoa, Mitsubishi (Presentation)


7:30-10:00 Banquet
   
Wednesday, January 15
8:30-12:00 Optimization: Modeling & Techniques
Chair: Costas Pantelides, Process Systems Enterprise and Imperial College (Presentation)


Progress in Linear and Integer Programming
and Emergence of Constraint Programming

Irv Lustig*, ILOG (Presentation)
Abstract

Optimization Under Uncertainty: Exact Algorithms And Approximation Schemes
Nikolaos Sahinidis, University of Illinois, Urbana (Presentation)
Abstract

Control and Optimization of Supply Networks
B. E. Ydstie, D. Coffey, M. Reid, Carnegie Mellon University (Presentation)
Abstract

1:30-3:30

New Challenges in Process Operations
Chair: Gary Blau, Purdue University (Presentation)


World-Wide Crude Transportation Logistics: A Decision Support System Based On Simulation and Optimization
Lifei Cheng and
Marco Duran* , Carnegie Mellon University and ExxonMobil (Presentation)

Production of Biopharmaceuticals in Corn - Issues in Supply Chain Development from R&D to Full Scale Manufacturing
Scott Keeler*, Dow Chemical
Abstract


4:00-5:00 Closing
Chair: Conor McDonald, Dupont
Lessons Learned and Concluding Remarks
G.V. Reklaitis, Purdue University (Presentation)

* Invited papers with industrial participation