2023 FOCAPO/CPC Conference

这笔赠款将使25名博士后和研究生以及10名职业早期教师能够参加2023年1月8日至12日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行的第三届计算机辅助过程操作/化学过程控制联合基金会(FOCAPO/CPC)会议。过去二十年来，数学建模、计算、数据收集和处理方面的进步以及市场和经济环境的变化模糊了化学过程作业和过程控制领域之间的区别；这促使2012年举行了第一次联合会议。2023年会议将吸引来自美国和国际大学、行业和国家实验室的化学过程系统工程领域的领先研究人员。它将为预计的200名与会者提供一个极好的机会，通过6名联席会议全体演讲者，16对兴趣互补的演讲者联合发表的主旨演讲，2次联合海报会议，12次平行的FOCAPO/CPC会议，并以联合主题讨论来总结会议期间确定的趋势，从而了解过程系统工程的最新发展。会议旨在鼓励过程操作和控制社区之间的互动，以及资深和早期职业教师与学术和工业研究人员之间的互动。化学过程操作和过程控制的整合提供了令人兴奋的机会，以应对社会在人类和生态系统健康、食品、水、能源和其他战略资源的可持续利用、减轻气候变化的影响以及有效和合乎道德地使用数据和自动化方面面临的挑战。为应对这些重大挑战，2023年中非合作论坛将探讨数字化、可持续与全球化、创新速度、2050年过程系统工程等四个主题。四场全体会议和四场主题会议将围绕这些重大挑战组织；应对这些挑战的具体技术主题包括网络安全、过程安全、数学优化中数据驱动技术的集成、硬件平台、PSE与基础设施的集成、循环经济、化学和药物流程的快速扩大、开源建模、供应链运营以及过程控制的未来。参加FOCAPO/CPC2023的25名博士后和研究生以及10名职业生涯早期的教职员工将探讨这些问题。重点将放在挑选可能无法参加会议的PSE研究人员和在PSE社区中代表性不足的群体中的研究人员。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant will make it possible for a combination of 25 postdocs and graduate students and 10 early career faculty members to attend the third joint Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations/Chemical Process Control (FOCAPO/CPC) conference to be held 8-12 January 2023 in San Antonio, TX. Advances in mathematical modeling, computation, data collection and processing, as well as changes in markets and economic circumstances, have over the past two decades blurred the distinctions between the chemical process operations and process control fields; this motivated the first joint conference in 2012. The 2023 conference will attract leading researchers in the field of chemical process systems engineering from US and international universities, industries, and national laboratories. It will provide an excellent opportunity for the expected 200 participants to learn about the state of the art in process systems engineering through 6 joint-session plenary speakers, 16 keynote lectures delivered jointly by pairs of speakers with complementary interests, 2 joint poster sessions, 12 parallel FOCAPO/CPC sessions, and ending with a joint topical discussion to summarize trends identified during the conference. The meeting is structured to encourage interaction between the process operations and control communities, as well as between established and early career faculty, and academic and industrial researchers.The integration of chemical process operations and process control provides exciting opportunities to address the challenges society faces in human and ecosystem health, sustainable use of food, water, energy, and other strategic resources, mitigating the impacts of climate change, and effective and ethical use of data and automation. In response to these grand challenges, the 2023 FOCAPO/CPC will examine four themes: Digitalization, Sustainability and Globalization, Innovation Speed, and Process Systems Engineering in 2050. Four of the plenary talks and the four keynote sessions will be organized around these grand challenges; specific technical topics that address these challenges include cybersecurity, process safety, integration of data-driven techniques in mathematical optimization, hardware platforms, integration of PSE with infrastructure, the circular economy, rapid scale-up of chemical and drug processes, open-source modeling, supply chain operations, and the future of process control. These issues will be explored by the 25 postdocs and graduate students and 10 early career faculty members partially supported by this grant to attend FOCAPO/CPC 2023. Emphasis will be placed on selecting PSE researchers who might not otherwise be able to attend the conference and researchers from groups underrepresented in the PSE community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.