| Monday, June 8 |
| 8:00 am |
Registration |
In Park Atrium (east side of Statler Hall, circled in red here with parking deck in green; full campus map here) |
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| 9:00 am |
Opening Remarks
Kent Fuchs, Cornell University Provost
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In Statler Hall room 196, accessed through Park Atrium |
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Carla Gomes |
Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, & Society |
Presentation Slides |
| 9:30 am |
Ken Williams, US Geological Survey, Cooperative Research Units |
Natural Resources Analysis and Decision Making |
Presentation Slides |
| 10:10 am |
Mike Runge, US Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
Challenges in Framing the Problem: Just what are we trying to optimize anyway?
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Presentation Slides |
10:50 am |
Break |
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| 11:05 am |
Michael Conroy, US Geological Survey and University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forest Resources |
Challenges in Dynamic Optimization for Natural Resource Management
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Presentation Slides |
| 11:45 am |
Eve McDonald-Madden, University of Queensland(Australia), School of Integrative Biology, Center for Applied Environmental Decision Analysis |
Spatial and Temporal Issues in Resource Allocation |
Presentation Slides |
| 12:25 pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:50 pm |
Steve Kelling, Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
Biodiversity Research and Conservation in a Digital World |
Presentation Slides |
| 2:30 pm |
Jane Elith, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne, School of Botany |
The Art of Modelling Range-Shifting Species |
no slides available |
| 3:10 pm |
Steven Phillips, AT&T Labs, Inc. - Research |
Maximum Entropy Modeling of Species Distributions |
Presentation Slides |
| 3:50 pm |
Break |
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| 4:05 pm |
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, Computer Science & Engineering |
Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining
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Presentation Slides |
| 4:45 pm |
Jim Nichols, US Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
On the Ugliness of Ecological Monitoring: Computational Constraints Arising from Ecological Data and Inference Methods |
Presentation Slides |
| 5:25 pm |
Poster Session I |
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| Tuesday, June 9 |
| 8:30 am |
Registration |
In Park Atrium (east side of Statler Hall, circled in red here with parking deck in green; full campus map here) |
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| 9:00 am |
Wouter Los, University of Amsterdam and LifeWatch / Eric Pauwels, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (NL) |
Computational Facilities for Biodiversity Research, e-Infrastructures (Los) and Examples of Computer-Assisted Photo-identification of Individual Animals(Pauwels)
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Los Presentation Slides; Pauwels Presentation Slides |
| 9:40 am |
Carlos Ernesto Guestrin, Carnegie Mellon University, The Robotics Institute |
Submodular Optimization in multiple applications |
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| 10:20 am |
Andreas Krause, California Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department |
Sensing Challenges in Environmental Monitoring
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| 10:40 am |
Break |
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| 10:55 am |
Warren Powell, Princeton University, Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORF) |
Approximate Dynamic Programming for a Stochatsic, Multiscale Energy Policy Model
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Presentation Slides |
| 11:35 am |
Brian Williams, MIT, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
Risk Sensitive Planning, Deep Sea Exploration and Sustainable Connected Homes |
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| 11:55 am |
Lunch (box handed out) |
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| 1:20 pm |
Ian Dobson, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Modeling Engineered and Sustainable Systems with Complex System Feedbacks |
Presentation Slides |
| 2:00 pm |
Alan Borning, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington |
The UrbanSim Project: Using Urban Simulation to Inform Public Decision-making about Land Use and Transportation Choices
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Presentation Slides |
| 2:30 pm |
James Landay, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering |
Environmental Sustainabilfity Through Activity-based Computing |
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| 3:00 pm |
Break |
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| 3:20 pm |
Terry Quinn, University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences |
Incorporating Biological and Environmental Realism into Fisheries Stock Assessment Models
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Presentation Slides |
| 3:50 pm |
Gautam Sethi, Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
Have Your Fish and Eat Them Too: Fishery Management Under Multiple Uncertainty
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Presentation Slides |
| 4:20 pm |
Richard Howitt, University of California Davis, Agricultural & Resource Economics |
Modeling Dynamic Network Systems with State-Contingent Penalty Functions
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Presentation Slides |
| 5:00 pm |
Poster Session II |
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| Wednesday, June 10 |
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| 9:00 am |
Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
High-Performance Computer Vision for Arthropod Biodiversity Studies
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| 9:40 am |
Regis Sabbadin, INRA (France), Departement of Applied Mathematics and Informatics |
Model-based Adaptive Spatial Sampling for Occurrence Map Construction
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Presentation Slides |
| 10:10 am |
David Shmoys, Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Department of Computer Science |
Mathematical Programming-based Heuristics: Telecommunication Network Design Meets Species Distribution Planning
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Presentation Slides |
| 10:40 am |
Break |
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| 11:00 am |
Computational Sustainability Panel |
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| 12:00 pm |
Lunch (on your own) |
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| 1:30 pm |
Working Group, Room A |
Problems in Quantifying and Managing Uncertainty (Chair: Evan Cooch) |
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| 1:30 pm |
Working Group, Room B |
Interactive Decision Support Tools (Chair: James Allen) |
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| 3:20 pm |
Break |
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| 3:40 pm |
Working Group, Room A |
Assessing multiple sources of human-behavioral uncertainty in social-ecological systems (Chair: Decker) |
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| 3:40 pm |
Working Group, Room B |
Species Distribution (Chair: Steve Kelling) |
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| Thursday, June 11 |
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| 9:00 am |
Steve Ellner, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
How Microbial Community Composition Regulates Coral Disease Transmission
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| 9:30 am |
Jon Conrad, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management |
Maximin Utility with Fractional Consumption, Extraction, and Harvest Rates |
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| 10:00 am |
Antonio Bento, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management |
Biocomplexities..Equilibrium Modeling and Carbon Leakages |
Presentation Slides |
| 10:20 am |
Break |
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| 10:40 am |
Claire Montgomery, Oregon State University, College of Forestry |
Optimal Forest Fire Fuel Treatment and Timber Harvest in the Face of Endogenous Spatial Risk
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Presentation Slides |
| 11:00 am |
Pat Langley, Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise and Arizona State University |
An Interactive Environment for Constructing Ecological Models |
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| 11:20 am |
Mark Battle, Bowdoin College, Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Development of an Optimal Method for Calibration of Gas Analyses
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Presentation Slides |
| 11:40 am |
Norm Scott, Cornell University, Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE) |
Transitioning to a Sustainable World: Role of Sustainable Communities
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| 12:00 pm |
Lunch (on your own) |
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| 1:30 pm |
Working Group, Room A |
Sustainable Communities & Sustainable Agriculture (Chair: James Allen) |
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| 1:30 pm |
Working Group, Room B |
Problems in Spatial Modeling and Resource Allocation (Chairs: Eve McDonald-Madden & David Shmoys) |
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| 3:20 pm |
Break |
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| 3:40 pm |
Working Group, Room A |
Dynamic Optimization of Renewable Resources (Chair: Jon Conrad) |
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