Presentations

  • Process Engineering at the Dawn of (Generative) AI
    James B. Rawlings
    John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecture, AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
    November 5, 2025

  • Tom Edgar: teacher, department chair, research colleague, friend
    James B. Rawlings
    Tom Edgar's 80th Birthday Celebration, AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
    November 4, 2025

  • Towards a Turnkey Model Predictive Controller: Identification, Application, and Theory
    Steven J. Kuntz
    Ph.D. defense, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California
    December 5, 2024

  • Optimizing Process Economic Performance with Model Based Control
    James B. Rawlings
    Model Based Control Conference, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark
    May 5, 2011

  • Controlling large scale systems with distributed model predictive control
    James B. Rawlings
    AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
    November 2010

  • Optimal Control Unchained: How Fast Online Computing Enabled Today's Advanced Industrial Control Systems
    James B. Rawlings
    IFAC Workshop on Fifty Years of Nonlinear Control and Optimization, London, UK
    September 2010

  • Cooperation-based optimization of industrial supply chains
    James B. Rawlings, Brett T. Stewart, Kaushik Subramanian, and Christos T. Maravelias
    Workshop on Distributed Model Predictive Control and Supply Chains,Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    May 2010

  • Optimal dynamic operation of chemical processes: Assessment of the last 20 years and current research opportunities
    James B. Rawlings
    Bayer Lecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    April 2010

  • Extending the tools of chemical reaction engineering to the molecular scale
    James B. Rawlings
    Model Reduction for Reacting Flows, Center for Applied Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
    March 2009

  • Chemical reaction engineering at the small scale --- still plenty of room at the bottom
    James B. Rawlings
    Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
    March 2009

  • State Estimation using Moving Horizon Estimation and Particle Filtering
    James B. Rawlings
    UW Math Probability Seminar, Madison, WI
    February 2009

  • Chemical Reaction Engineering at the Small Scale -- Still Plenty of Room at the Bottom
    James B. Rawlings
    Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
    February 2008

  • Extending the Tools of Chemical Reaction Engineering to the Molecular Scale
    James B. Rawlings
    Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    November 2007

  • A Hybrid Approach for State Estimation: Combining Moving Horizon Estimation and Particle Filtering
    James B. Rawlings and Murali R. Rajamani
    Sandia CSRI Workshop, Large-Scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty, Santa Fe, New Mexico
    September 2007

  • Mechanistic Simplifications in Stochastic and Classical Chemical Kinetics
    James B. Rawlings
    BACTER Retreat, UW -- Madison
    September 16, 2006

  • Coordinating Multiple Optimization-based Controllers: New Opportunities and Challenges
    James B. Rawlings and Brett T. Stewart
    DYCOPS, Cancun, Mexico
    June 2007

  • Model Predictive Control: Current Status and Future Challenges
    James B. Rawlings
    5th Annual UCLA Systems & Controls Symposium, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
    May 2006

  • Crystal Engineering Through Particle Size and Shape Measurement, Kinetic Parameter Estimation, Modeling and Control
    James B. Rawlings
    Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
    April 2006

  • Particle Filtering and Moving Horizon Estimation
    James B. Rawlings
    Chemical Process Control Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
    January 2006

  • Crystal Engineering Through Particle Size and Shape Measurement, Kinetic Parameter Estimation, Modeling and Control
    James B. Rawlings
    Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
    January 2006

  • Crystal Engineering Through Particle Size and Shape Measurement, Kinetic Parameter Estimation, Modeling and Control
    James B. Rawlings
    University of Delaware
    November 11, 2005