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Conference Program

The Conference will be held June 8-11, 2009 at The Statler Hotel and J. Willard Marriott Executive Education Center

The conference will include talks on a diverse range of Computational Sustainability topics as well as sessions more focused on the following topics:

  • Problems in Quantifying and Managing Uncertainty (Chair: Cooch)
  • Interactive Decision Support Tools (Chair: Allen)
  • Assessing multiple sources of human-behavioral uncertainty in social-ecological systems (Chair: Decker)
  • Species Distribution (Chair: Kelling)
  • Sustainable Communities & Sustainable Agriculture (Chair: Allen)
  • Problems in Spatial Modeling and Resource Allocation (Chairs: McDonald-Madden & Shmoys)
  • Dynamic Optimization of Renewable Resources (Chair: Conrad)

Conference materials will be distributed at 8am and speakers will begin presenting at 9am. Presentations and discussions will take place in Statler Hall classrooms 196, 291 and 391. Poster sessions will be held immediately following the presentation at the Statler Hall Park Atrium. The final schedule will be available at the conference.

Confirmed Speakers and Participants

  • Heidi J. Albers, Oregon State University, College of Forestry
  • Ole Amundsen, The Conservation Fund
  • James Allen, University of Rochester, Computer Science
  • Mark Battle, Bowdoin College, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Antonio Bento, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management
  • Scott Boomer, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Branch of Population and Habitat Assessment
  • Alan Borning, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington
  • Christopher Brewster, Aston University (UK), Operations and Business Management Group
  • Iadine Chades, University of Queensland (Australia), Department of Mathematics
  • Jon Conrad, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management
  • Michael Conroy, US Geological Survey and University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forest Resources
  • Sarah Converse, US Geological Survey
  • Evan Cooch, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
  • Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Ian Dobson, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Moussa Doumbia, Howard University
  • Mitch Eaton, US Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  • Jane Elith, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne, School of Botany
  • Steve Ellner, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Adebukola Gbade-Oyelakin, Howard University
  • Carla Gomes, Cornell University, Faculty of Computing and Information Science and Department of Applied Economics and Management
  • John Guckenheimer, Cornell University, Department of Mathematics
  • Carlos Ernesto Guestrin, Carnegie Mellon, The Robotics Institute
  • Shandelle Henson, Andrews University, Department of Mathematics
  • James Hines, US Geological Survey
  • Richard Howitt, University of California Davis, Agricultural & Resource Economics
  • Rebecca Hutchinson, Oregon State University, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Fred Johnson, US Geological Survey, Florida Integrated Science Center
  • Steve Kelling, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • Bill Kendall, US Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  • Mike Key, US Geological Survey and University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forest Resources
  • Andreas Krause, California Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department
  • Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, Computer Science & Engineering
  • James Landay, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  • Pat Langley, Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise and Arizona State University
  • Nianpeng Li, Howard University
  • Wouter Los, University of Amsterdam and LifeWatch
  • Julien Martin, US Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  • Eve McDonald-Madden, University of Queensland(Australia), School of Integrative Biology, Center for Applied Environmental Decision Analysis
  • Conor McGowan, US Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  • Claire Montgomery, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Resources
  • Jim Nichols, US Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  • Eric Pauwels, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (NL)
  • Nathalie Peyrard, NRA (France), Departement of Applied Mathematics and Informatics
  • Jim Peterson, US Geological Survey and University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forest Resources
  • Steven Phillips, AT&T Labs, Inc. - Research
  • Warren Powell, Princeton University, Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORF)
  • Terry Quinn, University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences
  • Mike Runge, US Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  • Regis Sabbadin, INRA (France), Departement of Applied Mathematics and Informatics
  • Ashish Sabharwal, Cornell University, Department of Computer Science
  • Albert Ali Salah
  • Norm Scott, Cornell University, Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE)
  • Gautam Sethi, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
  • Bart Selman, Cornell University, Department of Computer Science
  • David Shmoys, Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Department of Computer Science
  • Heidi Sofia, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Brian Williams, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Ken Williams, US Geological Survey, Cooperative Research Units
  • Weng-Keen Wong, Oregon State University, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University, Department of Mathematics
  • Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College, Mathematics Department