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The CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering were awarded to participants in the CoMSEF poster session at the virtual annual AIChE Meeting: Sarah Alamdari (Washington, Advisor: Jim Pfaendtner) and Ryther Anderson (Colorado School of Mines, Advisor: Diego Gomez-Gualdron). This year the forum also named two Honorable Mentions: Andrew S. Rosen (Northwestern, Advisor: Randall Q. Snurr) and Karun Kumar Rao (Houston, Advisor: Lars Grabow).

This year we will elect a Vice Chair, a Secretary-Treasurer, and 2 Liaison Directors. A link to the ballot will be sent to you by email.

Professor Baron Peters from the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Illinois is the winner of the 2019 CoMSEF Impact Award. He is cited for “simulation techniques using special "rare events" that deepen understanding of crystal nucleation and growth, catalysis by amorphous materials, and of reactions in polar solvents.” Prior to joining the faculty at Illinois in 2019, Baron was most recently a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Professor Amir Haji-Akbari from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Yale University is the 2019 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. He is cited for “his pioneering contributions to developing and utilizing advanced sampling techniques to study crystallization, including colloidal self-assembly and ice nucleation.” Prior to joining the faculty at Yale in 2017, Amir was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University in Pablo Debenedetti’s group.

Yasemin Basdogan (Pittsburgh, Advisor: John Keith, Poster Title: A Machine Learning Guided Approach for Studying Local Solvation Environments) and Kaihang Shi (North Carolina St., Advisors: Erik Santiso and Keith Gubbins, Poster Title: High-Pressure Phenomena in Adsorbed Films: A New Route to an Experimental Determination of Effective Tangential Pressure) won the 2019 CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and

This year we will elect 2 Liaison Directors and vote on 2 items related to changes to the by-laws. A link to the ballot will be sent to you by email. Please vote by Monday October 28.

Professor Jeetain Mittal from the Department of Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering at Lehigh University is the winner of the 2018 CoMSEF Impact Award. He is cited, “For development of at-omistic and coarse-grained models to study biological self-assembly processes for a fundamental understanding of the cellular organization and design of novel materials”. Jeetain has been a member of the faculty at Lehigh since 2009. Prior to this appointment, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and earned a Ph.D.

Professor Diwakar Shukla from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Univer-sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the 2018 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. He is cited, “For development and application of computational methods to understand protein conformational dynamics and stability”. Diwakar has been a member of the faculty at Illinois since 2015, where he is now the Blue Waters Assistant Professor. Prior to this appointment, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and earned Ph.D. and M.S.

Arushi Prakash (PNNL/Washington, Advisors: Chris Mundy and Jim Pfaendtner, Poster Title: Biasing High-Dimensional Free-Energy Landscapes for the Detection of Stable Clusters in Self-Assembling Systems) and Michael Taylor (Pittsburgh, Advisor: Giannis Mpourmpakis, Poster Title: Computer-Aided Description of Materials Stability at the Nanoscale) won the 2018 CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering

Foundations Of Process Analytics and Machine learning (FOPAM) 2019, Raleigh NC –
Abstract submission deadline extended to May 22

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