CEFRC Principal Investigator Professor Yiguang Ju of Princeton University, along with five of the University's graduate students, were invited to speak at the "2nd International Forum on Multidisciplinary Education and Research for Energy Science". This forum, which is sponsored by the Global COE program "Multidisciplinary Education and Research Center for Energy Science" at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, was conducted in Okinawa, Japan on December 12-16, 2009.

Professor Ju discussed "The Challenges and Advances of Combustion Research for Renewable Transportation Fuels". Congratulations to graduate students Michael Burke and Yuan Xu for "Best Presentation Awards".