Organizers
Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University
Jaime Cerda, INTEC, Santa Fe
Frank Doyle, University of California Santa Barbara
Argimiro Secchi, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Course organization and participants
The PASI2008 workshop is aimed at advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and young researchers in the area of Process Systems Engineering under the Pan American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) Program from the Americas. Funding for this PASI was provided by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy . The dates and location are August 12-21, 2007 , Mar del Plata, Argentina. The specific site for the workshop will be the Hotel Costa Galana. This hotel has excellent facilities that can accommodate the participants of this workshop. For more details see: http://www.hotelcostagalana.com/

The PASI2008 workshop will address the following areas:

• Advanced Modeling Tools.
• Biosystems Engineering
• Multiscale Design of New Materials
• Complex Engineering Systems
• Sustainability
• New Energy Systems
• Enterprise-wide Optimization