General areas covered by the DYCOPS-CAB symposium series

• Process Control
• Dynamic modelling and simulation for control and operation
• Interaction between design and control
• Modeling and identification
• Batch Process Modeling and Control
• Process and Performance Monitoring
• Fault detection, diagnosis, supervision and safety
• Integration between scheduling and control
• Process optimization
• Plantwide control
• Model predictive control
• Scheduling, coordination & optimization
• Process control education
• Data mining tools
• Sensors and soft sensors
• Process analytical technology (PAT)
• Systems biology, Synthetic biology, Metabolic flux modeling
• Metabolic engineering

Bio-applications:

• Microbial technology
• Industrial biotechnology
• Biopharmaceutical processes
• Biocatalysis (enzymatic reactions)
• Food engineering
• Waste water treatment processes
• Mammalian, insect and plant cell technology
• Bioenergy production (bioethanol, algae, anaerobic digestion)