CoMSEF Breakfast Mtg Wednesday, 19-Nov, 7:15am, The Café at the Westin Attendance – Scott Shell,...
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CoMSEF Breakfast Mtg • Wednesday, 19-Nov, 7:15am, The Café at the Westin • Attendance – Scott Shell, Michael Shirts, Dave Kofke, Coray Colina, Erik Santiso, Lev Gelb, Joe Golab, David Sholl, Jeff Errington, and Jonathan Moore • Annual Graduate Student Awards – Maximum of three (3) $250 awards (increase of one) – Minimum of zero, i.e. not all three awards need be awarded • Faculty awards remain same • 2014 CoMSEF sessions running well so far – Poster sessions not in AIChE meeting app – Other recommendations: include author search, room number, etc. • Potential CoMSEF dinner at a forthcoming Fall meeting? – To celebrate the XX years of ComSEF • Graduate student participation in CoMSEF has increased – >1000; ~500 US and ~500 international (per J. Moore) • Coray attended a few sessions for CoMSEF – Energy – Feedback for NSF report
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CoMSEF Breakfast Mtg• Wednesday, 19-Nov, 7:15am, The Café at the Westin• Attendance
– Scott Shell, Michael Shirts, Dave Kofke, Coray Colina, Erik Santiso, Lev Gelb, Joe Golab, David Sholl, Jeff Errington, and Jonathan Moore
• Annual Graduate Student Awards– Maximum of three (3) $250 awards (increase of one)– Minimum of zero, i.e. not all three awards need be awarded
• Faculty awards remain same• 2014 CoMSEF sessions running well so far
– Poster sessions not in AIChE meeting app– Other recommendations: include author search, room number, etc.
• Potential CoMSEF dinner at a forthcoming Fall meeting?– To celebrate the XX years of ComSEF
• Graduate student participation in CoMSEF has increased– >1000; ~500 US and ~500 international (per J. Moore)
• Coray attended a few sessions for CoMSEF– Energy– Feedback for NSF report
Business Meeting Topics• Wednesday, 19-Nov, 6:15pm, Crystal A/F• Attendance: ~ 80 people• Increase “prestige” of poster sessions, especially for those papers
placed into poster sessions– Have Rapid Fire sessions AFTER poster sessions to nominate “best/
better” poster presenters to participate• CoMSEF has 21 sessions
– Software Engineering sessions (new) were well attended and will be carried over for 2015
– For 2015 (Utah meeting) Areas, Divisions, and Forums total sessions will be reduced by 30 (total AIChE)
– Contact Jeff if you volunteer to be session chair or co-chair and/or with ideas for other sessions
Business Meeting Topics• Coray will report on real problems. Some malfunctioning or quirky video
projectors. • CoMSEF Awards
– Clare McCabe (Vanderbilt), Impact– Gregg Beckham (NREL), Young Investigator– Graduate Poster
• Heather Mayes (Northwestern, Broadbelt)• Yamil Colon (Northwestern, Snurr)
• Financial Report: Similar to last year, revenue (dues) will slightly exceed expenses (awards) leaving a 2015 carryover of ~ $4000
• FOMMS 2015 announcement; contact Randy Snurr with questions (http://www.fomms.org)
• ASME/ AIChE Thermophysical Property announcement; contact Ijla Siepmann with questions (http://thermosymposium.nist.gov/)
