NSF-WSCS 2024
NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability
April 16, 2024 - April 17, 2024, Alexandria, VA
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, video)
- 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 (video1, video2)
- 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
- Datacenters, Energy and Optimization
- Integration of Computing with the (Smart) Grid
- 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:
- Datacenters, Energy and Optimization
- Integration of Computing with the (Smart) Grid
- Modularity and Lifecycle of Computing
- In-person Session Moderators and Scribes
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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 |
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Moderators |
Akshaya Jha |
Kieran Levin |
Tamar Eilam |
Andrew Chien |
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Scribes |
Gabe Fierro |
Udit Gupta |
Matthew Sinclair |
Rong Ge |
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Nancy Fulda |
Vidya Chhabria |
Iraklis Anagnostopoulos |
Vikram Iyer |
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Ayse Coskun |
Suman Banerjee |
Benjamin Lee |
Wangda Zuo |
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Eve Schooler |
Christof Teuscher |
Can Hankendi |
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- Online Session Moderators and Scribes
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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 |
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Moderators |
Raja Sengupta |
Reid Lifset |
James Wilgenbusch |
Tania Lorido |
Shaolei Ren |
Stefan Robila |
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Jasmine Lu |
Pritish Parida |
Mengxin Zheng |
Aaron Jezghani |
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Scribes |
Sheldon Liang |
Sumit Sen |
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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
- 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
- Computing and Climate Modeling
- Computing and Agriculture and Food Systems
- 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:
- Computing and Climate Modeling
- Computing and Agriculture and Food Systems
- Computing and Smart Building
- In-person Session Moderators and Scribes
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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 |
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Moderators |
Rahul Mangharam |
Canes Fuentes |
Yannis Ioannidis |
Alfonso Morales |
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Scribes |
Abhishek Chandra |
Stephen Lee |
Tom Boellstorff |
Nicolas Martin |
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Kurtis Heimerl |
Sreepathi Pai |
Daniel Howard |
Jorge Celis |
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Andreas Andreou |
Pingbo Tang |
Daniel Aliaga |
Dejan Milutinovic |
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Christopher Yeh |
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Ella Neumann |
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- Online Session Moderators and Scribes
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Computing & smart building (infrastructure & materials) |
Computing & climate modeling Group1 |
Computing & climate modeling Group2 |
Computing & climate modeling Group3 |
Computing and agriculture & food systems |
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Moderators |
Kristin Williams |
Mike Liebhold |
Alan Sill |
Ashwin Ashok |
James Wilgenbusch |
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Sheldon Liang |
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Carol Song |
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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, video)
- 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 (video)
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.