Faculty Participants
The following faculty will deliver lectures and seminars:

United States:
Miguel Bagajewicz, University of Oklahoma
Lorenz Biegler, Carnegie Mellon University
Oscar Crisalle, University of Florida
Mahmoud El-Halwagi, University of Texas A&M
Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University
Marianthi Ierapetritou, Rutgers University
Jay Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Costas Maranas, Pennsylvania State University
Rex Reklaitis, Purdue University
Nikolaos Sahinidis, University of Illinois

Argentina:
Alberto Bandoni, PLAPIQUI
Jaime Cerdá, INTEC
Soledad Díaz, PLAPIQUI
Ana María Eliceche, PLAPIQUI
Gabriela Henning, INTEC
Aldo Vecchietti, INGAR

Brazil:
Darci Odloak, University of Sao Paulo
Argimiro Secchi, University of Rio Grande do Sul
Jose Pinto, University of Sao Paulo (also Polytechnic University)

Canada:
Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

Chile:
Luis Cisternas, University of Antofagasta

Mexico:
Juan Zamora, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

The program of lectures and seminars can be found in the schedule.

Regarding graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, there will be an application process to the program, which will be advertised in this webpage early in January 2005. Up to 50 students will be selected (50% from US, rest from other countries in the Americas).