Indoor Air 2011 Planning
Planning is well underway to assure an exciting and professionally fulfilling Indoor Air 2011 conference in Austin, Texas. The conference will take place at the Austin Convention Center from June 5th to 10th, 2011.
Indoor Air 2011 will highlight connections between our world and our discipline, preserving the holistic framework of improving indoor air while also preserving the earth’s environment. Indoor Air 2011 will also include a major thematic area focused on indoor air quality and health, including the effects of indoor pollutants on children’s health, and transmission of airborne infectious diseases. As always, Indoor Air 2011 will provide a forum for discussion of new knowledge related to the fundamentals of building physics, chemistry, and biology.
At Indoor Air 2011, workshops will support session streams and conclude in white papers that define state of knowledge and grand challenges in various important areas. Daily team debates will be scheduled on timely and controversial issues, and internal symposia will be formed around technical sessions, workshops, debates, and panel discussions focused on the major thematic areas.
A research-to-practice program is under development that will allow brainstorming sessions between
practitioners and researchers, tutorials that boil research efforts down to practical terms and implications, and more.
The student program will involve a “student challenge” to develop a two-minute educational video related to indoor air quality, a student-run symposium, special scholarships for student registration and travel, career roundtables, meetings with prospective employers, and student social events.
The conference venue is located in the heart of one of America’s most vibrant cities. Austin, the live music capital of the world, has more live music venues than any other city. In recent years Austin has been ranked by major media outlets as the greenest city in America, the top environmentally-friendly city in the U.S., the top adventure town in the U.S., one of America’s best outdoor cities, one of the top two cities in the U.S. for taking a stroll, one of the top 5 cities for embracing urban life, one of the most educated cities in the U.S., America’s top retail city, and best domestic airport in the world.
For more information about Indoor Air 2011 please contact Dr. Richard Corsi at corsi@mail.utexas.edu
