NSF-WSCS 2024

DRAFT SCHEDULE - SUBJECT TO CHANGES

April 16, 2024

• 8:30-9:00 am EDT - Introductory remarks C2020/2030

• Overview of workshop scope, structure, and goals, Roch Guerin
• Remark by acting CISE acting Assistant Director, Dilma Da Silva
• Overview of CRA Computational Foundations for Sustainability and Climate Resilience task force, Chandra Krintz, UCSB

• 9:00am-12:30pm EDT - Team science for interdisciplinary research teams

Jeni Cross and Anne Mook, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Colorado State University C2020/2030 (slides)

• 9:00am-10:30am EDT (there will be a 30 mins break halfway through the session)

• Psychological safety and social sensitivity (we will crowdsource community agreement on how we want to interact with each other)
• Overcoming disciplinary, institutional, and cultural barriers (we will include tips to building a shared language)
• Setting expectations (we will discuss team charters and how incentives may vary in different contexts and disciplines)

• 12:30-1:30pm EDT - Lunch

• Lunch box with your name, based on the order you placed with Panera

• 1:30-3:00pm EDT - Sustainable Computing panel - K. Nahrstedt, moderator C2020/2030

• Panelists

• Andrew Chien, University of Chicago (slides)
• Tamar Eilam, IBM
• Akshaya Ja, Carnegie Mellon University (slides)
• Kieran Levin, Framework (slides)
• Christine Ortiz, MIT
• Carole-Jean Wu, Meta (slides)

• Main themes

1. Datacenters, Energy and Optimization
2. Integration of Computing with the (Smart) Grid
3. Modularity and Lifecycle of Computing

The panel will start with short position statements by the panelists followed by Q&As.  Panelists and attendees were provided with a list of initial questions intended to seed the discussions. The panel’s goal is to provide initial directions and questions that the break-out sessions that will follow can explore further.

• 3:00-3:30 pm EDT - Coffee/tea break
• 3:30-5:00 pm EDT - Sustainable Computing break-out sessions

The break-out sessions will be broken-up along the same three themes as the panel:

1. Datacenters, Energy and Optimization
2. Integration of Computing with the (Smart) Grid
3. Modularity and Lifecycle of Computing

• In-person Session Moderators and Scribes

	Integration of computing with the (smart) grid W2190	Modularity & lifecycle of computing C2010	Datacenter, energy and optimization 1 C2020/2030	Datacenter, energy and optimization 2 W2240
Moderators	Akshaya Jha	Kieran Levin	Tamar Eilam	Andrew Chien
Scribes	Gabe Fierro	Udit Gupta	Matthew Sinclair	Rong Ge
	Nancy Fulda	Vidya Chhabria	Iraklis Anagnostopoulos	Vikram Iyer
	Ayse Coskun	Suman Banerjee	Benjamin Lee	Wangda Zuo
	Eve Schooler	Christof Teuscher	Can Hankendi

• Online Session Moderators and Scribes

	Integration of computing with the (smart) grid	Modularity & lifecycle of computing Group1	Modularity & lifecycle of computing Group2	Datacenter, energy and optimization Group1	Datacenter, energy and optimization Group2	Datacenter, energy and optimization Group3
Moderators	Raja Sengupta	Reid Lifset	James Wilgenbusch	Tania Lorido	Shaolei Ren	Stefan Robila
			Jasmine Lu	Pritish Parida	Mengxin Zheng	Aaron Jezghani
Scribes	Sheldon Liang	Sumit Sen		Brandon Tran	Catherine Gill	Michael Krasowski

Each break-out session is expected to involve 20-25 in-person participants.  In-person attendees will be polled for their interest in a particular theme, and assigned to a break-out session accordingly.  As a result, some themes might span more than one break-out session.  Each break-out session will be assigned a moderator.

The break-out sessions are expected to probe further the questions the panels will have helped refine, with the goal of ultimately producing a set of recommendations towards articulating a research agenda and research initiatives that can move "Sustainable Computing" forward.

Note:  There is no planned workshop dinner, so that “dinner is on your own.”  There are, however, many restaurants nearby.  NSF has an “NSF Area Restaurant Map” that displays many of them, or you can check any one of many recommendation services such as Trip Advisor, OpenTable, or Yelp.

April 17, 2024

• 8:30-10:00am EDT - Computing for Sustainability panel - R. Guerin, moderator C2020/2030

• Panelists

• Canek Fuentes Hernandez, Northeastern University (slides)
• Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (slides)
• Yannis Ioannidis, ACM and University of Athens (slides)
• Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin-Madison (slides)
• Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania (slides)

• Main themes

1. Computing and Climate Modeling
2. Computing and Agriculture and Food Systems
3. Computing and Smart Building

The panel will start with short position statements by the panelists followed by Q&As.  Panelists and attendees were provided with a list of initial questions intended to seed the discussions. The panel’s goal is to provide initial directions and questions that the break-out sessions that will follow can explore further.

• 10:00-10:30am EDT - Coffee/tea break
• 10:30-12:00pm EDT - Computing for Sustainability break-out sessions

The break-out sessions will be broken-up along the same three themes as the panel:  

1. Computing and Climate Modeling
2. Computing and Agriculture and Food Systems
3. Computing and Smart Building

• In-person Session Moderators and Scribes

	Computing & smart building (infrastructure & materials) 1 C2010	Computing & smart building (infrastructure & materials) 2 W2190	Computing & climate modeling C2020/2030	Computing and agriculture & food systems W2240
Moderators	Rahul Mangharam	Canes Fuentes	Yannis Ioannidis	Alfonso Morales
Scribes	Abhishek Chandra	Stephen Lee	Tom Boellstorff	Nicolas Martin
	Kurtis Heimerl	Sreepathi Pai	Daniel Howard	Jorge Celis
	Andreas Andreou	Pingbo Tang	Daniel Aliaga	Dejan Milutinovic
	Christopher Yeh		Ella Neumann

• Online Session Moderators and Scribes

	Computing & smart building (infrastructure & materials)	Computing & climate modeling Group1	Computing & climate modeling Group2	Computing & climate modeling Group3	Computing and agriculture & food systems
Moderators	Kristin Williams	Mike Liebhold	Alan Sill	Ashwin Ashok	James Wilgenbusch
	Sheldon Liang				Carol Song
Scribes	Kathryn Kelley	Charalampos Chelmis	Esther Roorda	Sathish Gopalakrishnan	Qian Lou

Each break-out session is expected to involve 20-25 in-person participants.  In-person attendees will be polled for their interest in a particular theme, and assigned to a break-out session accordingly.  As a result, some themes might span more than one break-out session.  Each break-out session will be assigned a moderator.

The break-out sessions are expected to probe further the questions the panels will have helped refine, with the goal of ultimately producing a set of recommendations towards articulating a research agenda and research initiatives that can move "Computing for Sustainability" forward.

• 12:00-1:00pm EDT - Lunch

• Lunch box with your name, based on the order you placed with Panera

• 1:00-1:45 pm EDT - Landscape of relevant programs and initiatives - Damian Dechev, NSF C2020/2030 (slides)
• 1:45-2:00 pm EDT - Short Coffee/tea break
• 2:00-3:00 pm EDT - Recap of break-out sessions and planning of workshop report C2020/2030

Scribes and the organizers will provide brief summaries of what transpired during the break-out sessions and outline next steps in anticipation of putting out a report on the findings and recommendations of the workshop.