ICS Kick-Off Meeting
November 21, 2008
Cornell University
The Institute for Computational Sustainability held its Kick-Off Meeting on November 21, 2008. The meeting was attended by nearly 60 participants and served as a key forum for bringing together researchers from various institutions and organizations participating in the Expedition (Bowdoin College, Howard University, Oregon State University, the Conservation Fund). The focus on was exchanging ideas, discussing potential collaborations, and giving brief overviews of challenge problems in sustainability and promising computational techniques to solve them.
The meeting was open to the entire Cornell University community, providing an opportunity for all Cornell community members to get involved and collaborate with the ICS. The meeting agenda included nearly 20 presentations, break-out sessions, dinner structured around working groups, and an ICS Executive Committee meeting. Presentations were made by both ICS members and non-members.
Meeting Agenda
| Time | Item | Speaker | Location |
| 8:30-9:00A | Breakfast | Sage 127 | |
| 9:00-9:20A | Welcome and Overview | Carla Gomes | Sage B6 |
| 9:20-9:25A | The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) | Helene Schember / Sid Leibovich | Sage B6 |
| 9:30-9:45A | Fire Management | Claire Montgomery | Sage B6 |
| 9:45-10:00A | Nonlinear Dynamics | Steven Strogatz | Sage B6 |
| 10:00-10:15A | Bird Conservation | Ken Rosenberg | Sage B6 |
| 10:15-10:30A | Bird Conservation | Steve Kelling | Sage B6 |
| 10:30-10:40A | Break | Sage 127 | |
| 10:40-11:10A | Machine Learning | Thomas Dietterich | Sage B6 |
| 11:10-11:25A | Biofuels | Larry Walker | Sage B6 |
| 11:25-11:40A | Fishery Management | Jon Conrad | Sage B6 |
| 11:40A-1:00P | Lunch | Rhodes 508 | |
| 1:00-1:30P | Dynamical Systems | John Guckenheimer | Sage B6 |
| 1:30-1:45P | African Pastoral Systems | Chris Barrett / Russell Toth | Sage B6 |
| 1:45-2:00P | Biofuels | Antonio Bento | Sage B6 |
| 2:00-2:15P | Optimization | David Shmoys | Sage B6 |
| 2:15-2:30P | Dynamical Systems of Exploited Fish Populations | Abdul-Aziz Yakubu | Sage B6 |
| 2:30-2:45P | Coffee Break | Sage 131 | |
| 2:45-3:00P | Ecological Dynamical Models | Stephen Ellner | Sage B6 |
| 3:00-3:15P | Uncertainty in Natural Systems | Evan Cooch | Sage B6 |
| 3:15-3:30P | Air Quality Modeling | Natalie Mahowald | Sage B6 |
| 3:30-3:45P | Strategic Conservation Planning | Ole Amundsen | Sage B6 |
| 4:15-5:30P | Breakout Sessions | Upson 5130, 5126, 5160 and 4135 | |
| 5:30-6:30P | Happy Hour / Walk / Open House | ||
| 6:30-8:30P | Dinner (But structured around working groups) | Statler Hotel, Taylor Room | |
| 8:30-9:30P | Executive Committee Meeting | Upson 5126 | |
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