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Organized by:
X. Liu, P. Mohapatra, K. Kant
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Extreme Events
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Species Extinction Rate
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Population Growth
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Lots of opportunities for
multidisciplinary research
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National Academy of Sciences
definition:
Sustainability
Interactions between natural and
social systems and how those
interactions affect the challenge of
…meeting the needs of present
and future generations while …
conserving the planet’s life
support systems
Society
After 4 decades of studying these issues, I’ve concluded that energy is the core of the
environment problem, environment is the core of the energy problem, and resolving the
energy-economy-environment dilemma is the core of the sustainable well-being
-- John Holdren, OSTP (FY 2012)
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Mgmt & efficient use of critical resources
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Biodiversity and eco-system mgmt
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Societal well being
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Disaster management
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Understanding Climate Change
◦ Fuels, Energy, Water, materials, agricultural land, …
◦ Species survival/migration, invasive species, forest cover,
oceanic health & sea-life, …
◦ Health & disease mgmt, water & energy availability &
quality, agriculture & its impact, adaptation to climate
change, …
◦ Increasingly frequent fires, hurricanes, floods, …
◦ Securing Information Infrastructure under disasters
◦ Comprehensive monitoring (land, sea, ice, air, …)
◦ Complex multi-level modeling & its acceleration
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Do we have the technologies?
◦ Monitoring & data collection
 Wild & inaccessible areas, Oceanic health monitoring, Rapidly
changing Arctic/Antarctic
 Large scale disaster scenarios
◦ Scalability
 Planet scale monitoring
 Exascale & beyond: data handling & computing (climate
modeling)
◦ Complexity
 Multi-scale, partial data, varying granularity, varying precision,
varying reliability.
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Can we develop/deploy them effectively?
◦ Inter-disciplinary engagement at research level
◦ Social, behavioral, economic, legal, … aspects must be
integrated
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Challenges
◦ Identify some focus areas in sustainability ripe for
exploitation by CS researchers
◦ Advances required to address these.
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Opportunities
◦ Many emerging opportunities (NSF SEES, DoE, USDA, …)
◦ How can the community take advantage of these?
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Enabling inter-disciplinary education/research
◦ Training next generation of CS graduates?
◦ Training domain science students in CS?
◦ Creating support infrastructure?
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Schedule
Reimbursements
Dinner, Red Iguana, bus
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7:30am-8:30am
8:30am-9:00am
9:00am – 10:40am
(Session I)
Registration and breakfast
Introduction by Workshop Chairs and NSF Officials
10:40am -11:00am
11:00am-12:30pm
12:30am – 1:30pm
1:30pm – 3:10pm
(Session II)
Coffee break
First Breakout Session
Lunch
3:10pm – 3:20pm
3:20pm – 4:35pm
(Session III)
Coffee Break
4:35pm – 5:30pm
5:30pm – 6:00pm
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Second Breakout Session (w/ coffee)
Report and next step
Dinner
Algorithmic Decision Theory and Sustainability, Fred Roberts, Rutgers University
Smart Distribution Grid: Communications Perspective, Mani Venkata, Univ. of Washington
21st Century Energy Market Requirements for Information and Communications
Technologies, Gerold Braun, UC Davis
Sensor Networks in Sustainability, Jim Kurose, Univ. of Massachusetts
Addressing the Energy-Water Nexus in Sustainable Buildings and Communities,
Mani Srivastava, UCLA
Computational Sustainability, Carla Gomes, Cornell
Sensing and Sensibility of Energy Use in Modern Buildings, Rajesh Gupta, UCSD
IT For Sustainability: Challenges in Designing Smarter and Greener
Systems, Prashant Shenoy, Univ. of Massachusetts
Sustainable Networks for Green Clouds, Sujata Banerjee, HP labs
Pervasive Computing for Sustainability, Mohan Kumar, University of Texas, Arlington
Spatial Computing and Sustainability, Shashi Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota
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