AE Professors Thanos Tzempelikos and Travis Horton are the Chairs for the 2^nd International High Performance Buildings Conference and the 21^st International Compressor Engineering Conference respectively, which will take place together with the 14^th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue on July 16-19, 2012. Prof. Ming Qu is organizing the short courses (July 14-15) and Prof. Panagiota Karava is organizing the student paper competition.