ON-SITE PROGRAM

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Science in the Age of Experience Keynote Speakers
Science in the Age of Experience opens on Monday, May 23, with a morning of Technology
Updates (see SIMULIA section, page 41) and a special afternoon of plenary material, including
speakers such as Bernard Charlès, President and CEO of Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA CEO Max
Carnecchia, SIMULIA CEO Scott Berkey and two keynote speakers who will highlight the emerging
role in using the virtual world to unite simulation and materials.
Professor Martin Karplus
2013 Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry
Martin Karplus was born in Vienna,
Austria, in 1930. He received his BA from
Harvard College in 1950 and his PhD from
Caltech in 1953. He worked at Oxford
University as an NSF postdoctoral fellow
from 1953 until 1955, when he joined
the faculty of the University of Illinois.
In 1960 Karplus became professor at
Columbia University, and in 1966 at Harvard University. He was
named Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry there
in 1979. He is also Professeur Conventionné at the Université
Louis Pasteur. He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences (USA), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
and a foreign member of the Netherlands Academy of Arts &
Sciences and the Royal Society of London. He is a Commander
in the French Legion of Honor. He has received honorary
degrees from the University of Sherbrooke, the University of
Zurich, and Bar-Ilan University, as well as numerous awards for
his many contributions to science, including the 2013 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry.
Early in his career Karplus studied magnetic resonance
spectroscopy; of particular interest was his theoretical analysis
of nuclear spin-spin coupling constants. He made fundamental
contributions to the theory of reactive collisions between small
molecules based upon trajectory calculations. He was one of
the first researchers to apply many-body perturbation theory
to atomic and molecular systems. He has studied quantum
mechanical processes in biological molecules, such as the
bonding of oxygen to hemoglobin and the photochemistry of
visual pigments. His more recent work has been concerned with
the development of molecular dynamics and other simulation
methods for the elucidation of the properties of proteins and
nucleic acids. He is now studying enzymatic reactions, protein
folding, and the function of biomolecular motors.
Over the years, Dr. Karplus has conducted research in many
areas of theoretical chemistry and biochemistry and has
presented his results in over 800 journal articles and book
chapters, as well as two books. His primary interest has been
to develop and employ theoretical methods for increasing
our understanding of chemical and biological problems. His
contributions have been instrumental in the transformation
of theory from a specialized field to a central part of modern
chemistry and more recently of structural biology.
Mark A. Meili
The Procter & Gamble Co.
Director of Modeling and Simulation
Mark A. Meili is Director of Modeling
and Simulation for The Procter &
Gamble Company in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He has held a variety of technical and
management positions in both R&D and
Product Supply Engineering. Mark has
been both a practitioner and champion
of first principles understanding to
reduce risk and enable robust technical decision making
throughout his 29-year professional career. Mark first
became involved in simulation as a learning tool in his quest
to improve scale-up for a variety of multi-phase chemical
processes. Mark received two Bachelor of Science degrees
from Kansas State University, one in Mechanical Engineering
and one in Grain Science.
Simulation-Led Innovation: Using Simulation
to Complement Theory and Experiment for
Technical Learning
Four billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people
around the world. At P&G, our people work to make sure those
brands live up to their promise to make everyday life just a little
bit better, now and for generations to come. Modeling and
simulation is a vital tool to assure we can meet these promises.
Predicting consumer experience of everyday products is
usually a multidiscipline problem requiring contributions from
mechanical, chemical, biological and other scientific domains.
These interactions, by their very nature, are multi-scale ranging
from the chemical bonds that determine interface behavior and
material structure to the large scale manufacturing systems used
to produce products around the world. The multidisciplinary
nature of these problems also necessitates democratization of
simulation knowledge throughout the organization to others
who are not experts in these fields.
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