2009 EES Spring Symposium Meeting Minutes

The EES Symposium will be organized into six research categories:
1. Air Quality Engineering and Science
2. Water Disinfection
3. Fate and Transport of Micropollutants in Water
4. Membranes
5. Environmental Systems
6. Water Quality Microbiology

Another call for abstracts will be made, including some information about the presentations (length between 10-15 minutes).

Volunteers are needed to upload abstracts from last year's Symposium for reference on the updated webpage. Please contact Brian (brian.carl.payne@gmail.com) for more information.

We are currently waiting for a response from a potential keynote speaker. Please check for updates as we come closer to the date.

Minutes prepared by Mandy Poole (alpoole2@illinois.edu)

Call for Abstracts

University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana will host the annual Environmental Engineering and Science Program Spring Symposium. Each spring semester, the Environmental Engineering and Science Program sponsors a symposium at which our graduate students present their research. With a number of concurrent multi-paper sessions, the symposium contains a wealth of information about current cutting-edge research. Details on the symposium to follow.  

Abstract Submission Information

All EES graduate students are requested to submit abstracts on the research they are doing for the university.

The deadline for electronic submission of abstracts is Friday, February 27^th, 2009. To submit your abstract please send to EESspringsymposium2009@gmail.com

Highlight the presenter among the authors

The EES Spring Symposium will be held on Friday, April 24, 2009. I don't believe a formal call for abstracts has been made yet, but the tentative date for the abstracts to be due is February 15, 2009. A list of other tasks and tentative deadlines is below:

-- Confirm a speaker (ASAP -- suggestions welcome)
-- Set arrangements for speaker's hotel (ASAP)
-- Website development (February -- before invitations are sent)
-- Draft a letter of invitation and send invitations (February 28)
-- Organize abstracts into a schedule (March 15)
-- Create a booklet of abstracts with the schedule (April 1)

Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated!