MPE 2013+ Workshop on Sustainable Human Environments

April 23 - 25, 2014
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Midge Cozzens, DIMACS, Rutgers University, midgec at dimacs.rutgers.edu

Lou Gross, University of Tennessee, gross at tiem.utk.edu

Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University, froberts at dimacs.rutgers.edu

Alexis Tsoukias, LAMSADE, Universite Paris Dauphine, tsoukias at lamsade.dauphine.fr

Laura Wynter, IBM Research Collaboratory, Singapore, lwynter at us.ibm.com

Workshop Program:

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

 7:00 PM       Optional dinner for early arrivals  
               Ruby Tuesday located at the Holiday Inn 
               4701 Stelton road
               South Plainfiled, NJ 07080

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

 8:30 -  9:00  Registration
 
 9:00 -  9:45  Mathematical Sciences and Sustainable Human Environments  Slides
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University

 9:45 - 10:30  Anthropogenic Biomes: Global Ecology for the Anthropocene 
               Erle Ellis, UMBC

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:30  "Brainstorming" Session Identifying Key Themes of the
               workshop and of followup activities:  
               Moderator Lou Gross. Will define topics for the afternoon breakout sessions. 
               Key speaker: Alexis Tsoukias

11:30 - 12:15  Participatory Modelling for Water Planning and Risk Management at the Urban Fringe
               Katherine A. Daniell, The Australian National University

12:15 -  1:15  Lunch

 1:15 -  2:00  Big Data Analytics for Urban Traffic Management: State of the Art and Future Directions 
               Satish Ukkusuri, Purdue University
 
 2:00 -  2:45  Educating to Use Evidence
               Education Speaker: Nora Newcombe, Temple University

 2:45 -  3:30  Education Session: Discussion of Newcombe talk
               Midge Cozzens, Rutgers
               Lou Gross, U. Tennessee
               The audience

 3:30 -  3:50  Break

 3:50 -  4:50  Breakout session I

 4:50 -  5:15  Report out from Breakout session I

 5:20          Reception and banquet

Thursday, April 24, 2014

 8:30 -  9:00  Registration

 9:00 -  9:45  Big Data for Urban Sustainability
               Stanislav Sobilevsky, MIT

 9:45 - 10:30  Modeling Patron Screening at Large Gathering Venues
               Brian Nakamura, Rutgers University 

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:45  Sustainability at its Worst: Crime and Chronic Illegal Behavior Settings 
               Joel Caplan, Rutgers University 

11:45 - 12:10  Multi-Metric Environmental Costs of Animal-Based Categories of the United States' Diet
               Gidon Eshel, Bard College

12:10 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:20 -  1:50  Fuel from Waste
               Viral Sagar, University of Mumbai 

 1:50 -  2:10  Decision-Aiding For Participatory Management Of Common Environmental Resource With Multi-Agent Approach
               Irene Pluchinotta, Technical University of Bari - Italy and LAMSADE - Paris Dauphine University - France

 2:20 -  2:40  Study of Information Sharing for Natural Resources Management
               Nicolas Paget, The Australian National University

 2:40 -  3:00  The Interface between Security and Commerce in Urban Areas
               Jonathan Bullinger, Rutgers

 3:00 -  3:20  Urban Link Travel Time Estimation using Large-scale Taxi Data with Partial Information
               Xianyuan Zhan, Purdue University

 3:20 -  3:40  Break

 3:40 -  4:40  Breakout session II

 4:40 -  5:10  Report out from Breakout session II

               Dinner on your own

Friday, April 25, 2014

 8:30 -  9:00  Registration

 9:00 -  9:45  New Techniques for Modeling Environmental Systems with a View Towards Sustainability
               Laura Wynter, Director, IBM Research Collaboratory - Singapore

 9:45 - 10:30  Panel Discussion: Topic TBD

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Discussion of follow-up activities

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch

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