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2009 German-American Frontiers of Engineering
April 22-25, 2009
Potsdam, Germany
Co-chairs:
Tresa Pollock, University of Michigan
Kai Sundmacher, Max-Planck-Institute
Materials for Extreme Environments
Organizers: Eric Ott, GE Aviation, and Anke Rita Pyzalla, Max Planck Institute
Shape-Memory Polymers
Andreas Lendlein, GKSS
Materials in Extreme Environments - Rocketry
Bryan McEnerney, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc.
Mechanical Materials and Coatings that Survive the Extreme Environment in Gas Turbine Engines
Andrew Rosenberger, Air Force Research Laboratory
Steel Tubes for Extreme Environments
Andre Schneider, Bentele Stahl/Rohr GmbH, Paderborn
Biosystems Engineering
Organizers: Melissa Knothe Tate, Case Western Reserve University, and An-Ping Zeng, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Towards Superior Bioprocesses - Systems Biotechnology of Microorganisms for Industrial Production
Christoph Wittmann, Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute of Biochemical Engineering
Industrial Systems Biology for Amino Acid Production
Ralf Takors, Evonik Degussa GmbH, Künsebeck, Germany
Multiscale Mechanobiology
Wendy Thomas, University of Washington
Mathmatics, Mechanics, and Motility
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University
Complex Systems Design and Controls
Organizers: Silvia Ferrari, Duke University, and Sebastian Sager, University of Heidelberg
Discrete Optimization - Past and Present
Armin Fügenschuh, Technical University, Darmstadt
Learning and Adaptive Systems, Neural Networks, Brain-Machine Interface
Jennie Si, Arizona State University
Reconfigurable and Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Aerospace and Automotive Applications
Emilio Frazzoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complex Systems in the Chemical Process Industry
Jan Oldenburg, BASF, Ludwigshafen
Renewable Energy
Organizers: Ulrike Krewer, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, and Sean Shaheen, University of Denver
Materials Development and Device Engineering for Organic Photovoltaics
Dana Olson, National Renewable Energy Lab
Microbial Fuel Cells
Uwe Schröder, University of Greifswald, Institute of Biochemistry
Microbial Production of Advanced Biofuels
Peter Meinhold, Gevo
High Temperature Processes for Solar Materials Conversion
Martin Roeb, German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics
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