Cornell Engineering : Agenda

Unfortunately three members of the Tsinghua delegation will be unable to attend the Workshop this week. Their presentations have been removed from the schedule. The updated agenda is available in printer-friendly PDF format.

Tuesday, April 29

8:50 a.m.	Introductory Remarks: Professor Larry Brown
9:00 a.m.	Welcome: Cornell Vice Provost David Wippman, Tsinghua Vice President Chen Xu, College of Engineering Dean Kent Fuchs
9:15 a.m.	Keynote: Frank DiSalvo – The Cornell Center for Sustainable Future
9:45 a.m.	Zhang Jiansheng – Investigation and Application of Staged Entrained Flow Coal Gassification
10:00 a.m.	Norm Scott – Renewable Energies and Sustainable Communities
10:15 a.m.	Wei Jiahua - Water Resources Allocation Model Based on Optimization and Process Control and Its Application to the Tarim River Basin, China
10:30 a.m.	Discussion/Break
11:00 a.m.	Elizabeth Fisher – Oxycombustion for Carbon Sequestration
11:15 a.m.	Qian Weizhong - Enhanced Production of Hydrogen Free of COx and Carbon Nanotubes from Methane
11:30 a.m.	Brad Anton – Mechanistic Studies of Cellulose Hydrolysis by Cellulase Enzymes
11:45 a.m.	Larry Cathles – Modeling Gas Hydrate Formation & Dissolution in Gulf of Mexico Faults
12:00 p.m.	Discussion
12:15 p.m.	Lunch Break
1:45 p.m.	Keynote: Shi Hanchang - Study of a Full Fiber Immunosensor for Environmental Water Analysis
2:15 p.m.	Huang Yuefei - IPCS: An Integrated Process Control System for Enhanced In-Situ Bioremediation based onNAPL-Biodegradation Simulation and Stepwise- Cluster Analysis
2:30 p.m.	Jim Gossett – Polaromonas sp. Strain JS666 as a Potential Bioaugmentation Agent for Aerobic, cDCE-Contaminated Sites
2:45 p.m.	Wu Jing – Anaerobic Sludge Granulation with Granule Fragments as Nuclei
3:00 p.m.	Ruth Richardson – Developing Bioindicators to Monitor Chloroethene-Bioremediation by Dehalococcoides strains
3:15 p.m.	Discussion/Break
4:00 p.m.	Jery Stedinger – Bayesian Generalization Least Squares Regression for Regionalization of Hydrologic Statistics
4:15 p.m.	Liu Zhaowei- Change of Dissolved Oxygen in Water flowing over the Three Gorges Dam
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.	Discussion

Wednesday, April 30

9:00 a.m.	Keynote: Wang Zhongjing – A Twin-pointer Computable Model for Water Resources Carrying Capacity
9:30 a.m.	Todd Cowen – An Insitu Boroscopic Quantitative Imaging Profiler and Applications to Steady Sheet and Oscillatory Swash Zone Flows
9:45 a.m.	Zeng Siyu – Post-Evaluation of Water Pollution Control Plan: Huaihe River Basin
10:00 a.m.	Discussion/Break
10:30 a.m.	Monroe Weber-Shirk – Sustainable, Gravity Powered, Municipal Scale Drinking Water Treatment for Surface Waters
10:45 a.m.	Christine Shoemaker – Improved Decision Making Through New Methods for Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis of Water Resource Models
11:00 a.m.	Discussion
11:30 a.m.	Lunch Break
1:00 p.m.	Keynote: Peter Loucks – The Search for Sustainability Criteria for Managing Water Resources Systems
1:30 p.m.	Jia Haifeng – A Coupling Hydrodynamic-Water Quality Model for the Assessment of Water Pollution Control in Nanshahe River, Beijing
1:45 p.m.	Wilfried Brutsaert – Streamflow as an Indicator of Groundwater Storage Changes in Mongolia Over the Past Half Century
2:00 p.m.	Lu Wenjing – Role of Rural Solid Waste Management in Non-point Sources Pollution Control and its Contribution to Pollution Alleviation of Water Body of Dianchi Lake
2:15 p.m.	Discussion/Break
2:45 p.m.	Oliver Gao – The Retrofit Puzzle: Optimal Fleet Owner Behavior in the Context of Diesel Retrofit Incentive Programs
3:00 p.m.	Max Zhang – The Olympics and Air Pollution: A “particulate” experience
3:15 p.m.	Larry Walker – The Evolving Paradigm of Agriculture as a Supplier of Energy and Industrial Chemicals
3:30 p.m.	Todd Walter – Do Agricultural Best Management Practices Work? Combining Monitoring and Distributed Modeling Shows What Does and Does Not Work
3:45 p.m.	Duan Lei – Effect of Limestone and Magnesite Application on a Masson Pine Forest Ecosystem in Southwest China: a preliminary study
4:00 p.m.	Discussion/Break
4:30 p.m.	Philip Liu – Natural Coastal Hazard in the South China Sea Region
4:45 p.m.	Jiang Chunbo – Investigation of Shallow Wakes by A DPIV and Fractional FEM
5:00 p.m.	Peter Diamessis – Interactions of Nonlinear Internal Waves with Coastal Ocean/Lake Bottom Boundary Layer
5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	Discussion