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

  • 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 (video)
  • 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, 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.