<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">a lecture of interest</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Stay sane, keep washing those hands, and practice social solidarity as well as physical distancing,</font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Global Futures Events</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:GlobalFuturesEvents@asu.edu">GlobalFuturesEvents@asu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM<br>Subject: Inaugural Distinguished KAITEKI Lecture - March 16<br>To: <<a href="mailto:j-coopersmith@tamu.edu">j-coopersmith@tamu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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Pistikopoulos has authored/co-authored 15 books, 4 patents, and over 500 research publications in the areas of modeling, control and optimization of process, energy, sustainability, circular economy, and systems-engineering. He was elected Fellow of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering and has received their prestigious MacRobert Award.<br>
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