MTSM

2009 Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference

Date And Location:

• May 19, 2009: 10:00am-6:00pm
• May 20, 2009:  9:00am-3:00pm 
  
• EDC Auditorium, 1st floor College of Engineering
  5050 Anthony Wayne Drive, Detroit Michigan, 48082
• Location of parking, dorms and meeting can be found here.
  
• Campus Map
  

Conference Organizer

Jeffrey Potoff

email: jpotoff@eng.wayne.edu

Tel: 313-577-9357 (office), 313-577-9255 (lab)

Invited Speakers

• Jennifer Wilcox, Stanford, "Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Coal-based Energy Generation"
• Krista Walton, Kansas State University, "Nanostructure Inorganic-Organic Hybrids: Engineering a New Class of Porous Materials"
  

Abstracts:

• A list of confirmed speakers and abstracts can be found here.
• Conference program can be found here.
  

Important Dates / Deadlines

• Abstract submission is now CLOSED.

*Please e-mail all correspondence to jpotoff@eng.wayne.edu.

Abstract Submission

To be considered for a presentation at the meeting, please submit an abstract by April 21. Your abstract should include a title, author list, author affiliations, and an abstract configured to fit on a single page. Please email a MS Word document of your abstract to Jeffrey Potoff: jpotoff@eng.wayne.edu. In your email, please be sure to include contact information for the corresponding author and indicate which of the authors will be the speaker.

Registration

• Registration form can be found here.
  
• Registration cost without accommodations
  
• Graduate students and post-docs: $50
• Faculty: $90
  
• Please mail the completed registration form with a check payable to "Wayne State University" to Jeffrey Potoff, 5050 Anthony Wayne Dr, Department of Chemical Engineering, WSU, Detroit, MI, 48202.
  

Food

• Near Campus
  
• Campus Food
• Starbucks

Lodging

Rooms are available in our on-campus dorms for $82 per person (includes 5/18 and 5/19).  Rooms are four person suites, with individual bedrooms sharing a bathroom and sitting area.  Room cost includes bed linens, overnight parking in structure #2 and wired Internet.  Rooms are in Towers Hall, which is a 5 minute walk to Engineering.  For conference attendees staying in the dorm, housing fees are due at the same time as the registration fee (4/21/09).

 Additional lodging options are available here.

History 

• A bit of conference history can be found here: