This e-mail is to announce that Yankai Cao will be defending his dissertation, PARALLEL ALGORITHMS FOR NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING AND APPLICATIONS IN PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING, on Friday, December 4th, at 12:00 p.m. in FRNY 3062B. The dissertation is directed by Dr. Laird, and the abstract is attached. All are welcome to attend.

Bev Johnson

Graduate Program Administrator

Chemical Engineering

Forney Hall 1051

Purdue University

765-494-4057