Hosted by the Department of Chemical Engineering and Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA

Keynote Address

Title of the talk: Optimization and Control Using Population Balance Models
Prof. Richard D. Braatz
Edwin R. Gilliland Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
MIT, USA

Research areas: Applied mathematics and control theory and its application to manufacturing systems where the control of events at the molecular scale is key to product quality (http://web.mit.edu/braatzgroup/).

Invited Address

Title of the talk: Moment based methods to solve PBEs, and their contribution to the growth of population balance modelling
Prof. Daniele Marchisio
Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Torino, Italy

Research areas: Development, validation and implementation of computational models for turbulent multiphase reacting systems using Population Balances Modelling (PBM); Solution of population balance equations using QMOM and DQMOM.
(https://didattica.polito.it/pls/portal30/sviluppo.scheda_pers_swas.show?m=3675)

Invited Address

Title of the talk: Heterogeneity in cell populations underlying viral infections and treatment response
Prof. Narendra M Dixit
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Research areas: HIV and hepatitis C virus dynamics and therapy; Virus-cell interactions; Drug pharmacokinetics; Theoretical immunology
(http://chemeng.iisc.ernet.in/labone/home.html)