1. CoMSEF Breakfast Mtg Wednesday, 19-Nov, 7:15am, The Café at the Westin Attendance – Scott Shell, Michael Shirts, Dave Kofke, Coray Colina, Erik Santiso, Lev Gelb, Joe Golab, David Sholl, Jeff Errington, and Jonathan Moore Annual Graduate Student Awards – Maximum of three (3) $250 awards (increase of one) – Minimum of zero, i.e. not all three awards need be awarded Faculty awards remain same 2014 CoMSEF sessions running well so far – Poster sessions not in AIChE meeting app – Other recommendations: include author search, room number, etc. Potential CoMSEF dinner at a forthcoming Fall meeting? – To celebrate the XX years of ComSEF Graduate student participation in CoMSEF has increased – >1000; ~500 US and ~500 international (per J. Moore) Coray attended a few sessions for CoMSEF – Energy – Feedback for NSF report

2. Business Meeting Topics Wednesday, 19-Nov, 6:15pm, Crystal A/F Attendance: ~ 80 people Increase “prestige” of poster sessions, especially for those papers placed into poster sessions – Have Rapid Fire sessions AFTER poster sessions to nominate “best/ better” poster presenters to participate CoMSEF has 21 sessions – Software Engineering sessions (new) were well attended and will be carried over for 2015 – For 2015 (Utah meeting) Areas, Divisions, and Forums total sessions will be reduced by 30 (total AIChE) – Contact Jeff if you volunteer to be session chair or co-chair and/or with ideas for other sessions

3. Business Meeting Topics Coray will report on real problems. Some malfunctioning or quirky video projectors. CoMSEF Awards – Clare McCabe (Vanderbilt), Impact – Gregg Beckham (NREL), Young Investigator – Graduate Poster Heather Mayes (Northwestern, Broadbelt) Yamil Colon (Northwestern, Snurr) Financial Report: Similar to last year, revenue (dues) will slightly exceed expenses (awards) leaving a 2015 carryover of ~ $4000 FOMMS 2015 announcement; contact Randy Snurr with questions (http://www.fomms.org)http://www.fomms.org ASME/ AIChE Thermophysical Property announcement; contact Ijla Siepmann with questions (http://thermosymposium.nist.gov/)