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Monday, June 3rd

5:00 – 7:00	Guided Tour of Cambridge Sponsored by Huxley Bertram
7:00 – 9:00	Welcome Reception Sponsored by Huxley Bertram King’s College

 

	Tuesday, June 4th CSF Day 1
8:15 – 9:00	Breakfast and Registration
9:00 – 9:10	Welcome: Kevin J. Bittorf, President of the CSF
9:10 – 10:10	Keynote #1: Modelling-led compaction simulation: a tool for Pharmaceutical powder formulation Dr. James Elliott, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge
10:10 – 10:25	Break
10:25 – 11:25	Keynote #2: Analysis and interpretation of compaction simulator data Dr. Csaba Sinka, Mechanics of Materials Research Group, University of Leicester
11:25 – 12:30	User Presentations and Round Table
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch and Poster Presentations
	SIMULATION and CHARACTERISATION
1:30 – 2:00	Experimental study and numerical analysis of breakage of pharmaceutical tablets Dr. Chenglong Shang, University of Leicester
2:00 – 2:30	Micromechanics of granule deformation during compaction, determined by small-angle X-ray scattering Dr. Peter Laity, University of Huddersfield
2:30 – 3:00	Simulating the Capsule Filling Process Ian Smales, Pfizer
3:00 – 3:20	Break
3:20 – 3:50	Simulation of tabletting and the real-world payoff Dr. Kendal Pitt, GlaxoSmithKline
3:50 – 4:20	Excipients characterisation, are we measuring the right attributes? Greg Thoorens, FMC
4:20 – 5:00	Round Table on Simulation and Characterization
5:00 – 7:00	Cocktails and Poster Presentation Sponsored by Phoenix Calibration Fitzwilliam College
7:00 – 9:00	Dinner

 

	Wednesday, June 5th CSF Day 2
8:30 – 9:00	Breakfast and Registration
9:00 – 10:00	Keynote #3: Powder bed heterogeneities as a tool for tailoring product performance Prof. Alberto Cuitino, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University NSF-ERC for Structured Organic particulate Systems
10:00 – 10:40	Round Table of Keynote Speakers
10:40 – 11:00	Break
	MODELLING and ANALYSIS
11:00 – 11:30	Principal Component Analysis, as a Useful Tool in Tableting Dr. Ingunn Tho, University of Tromso and Dr. Annette Bauer-Brandl, University of Southern Denmark
11:30 – 12:00	Multi-scale modelling and simulation as a cost-effective tool for design and optimisation of powder compaction processes Dr. Marcial Gonzalez, Rutgers University
12:00 – 12:30	Multiscale Modelling of Pharmaceutical Powder Compaction, Dr. Jonathan Loh, University of Cambridge; Dr. Wiliam Ketterhagen, Pfizer Worldwide R&D, Groton CT; Dr. James Elliott, Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science, University of Cambridge
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch and Poster Presentations
1:30 – 2:00	Performance of formulated APIs into RC tablets: from the Compaction Simulator to a Production Scale Roller Compactor Claire Tridon, GlaxoSmithKline
2:00 – 2:30	Modelling entrapped air induced fracture during pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing Dr. Chuan-Yu Wu, University of Surrey
2:30 – 3:00	Terahertz spectroscopy, toward in-die analytics and modelling Dr. Axel Zeitler, University of Cambridge
3:00 – 3:20	Break
3:50 – 4:30	Round Table on Modelling and Analysis
4:30	Conclusion: Tablet presses and simulators, what does the future hold?  Compaction Simulation Forum organizing committee’s summary

 

 

Program Committee

• Kevin J Bittorf (Chair), Vertex [ info{at}CompationSimulation.com ] 617.717.9823
• Jean LeFloch, Huxley Bertram [jean{at}huxleybertram.com] 847.275.4799
• James Elliott, University of Cambridge, Materials Science and Metallurgy [jae1001{at}cam.ac.uk]
• Elaine Harrop Stone, Merlin Powder Characterisation [e.h.stone{at}merlin-pc.com]
• Sharon Inman, GlaxoSmithKline 
• Kendal Pitt, GlaxoSmithKline
• Kate Boxell, Pfizer 
• Greg Thoorens, FMC
• Clare Medendorp, Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company