Agenda

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Socially Coupled Systems & Informatics:
Science, Computing & Decision Making in a Complex Interdependent World

Speakers & Sessions

Monday, 12 July 2010

1700-1830: Afternoon and Evening Arrival & Registration
1830: Dinner

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

0800-0845: Registration & Breakfast
0845-0900: Welcome

0900: Informatics for Society, Sustainablity and Environment (S. Eubank)

• Anders Karlqvist-
Former Director of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Ilan Chabay-
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environment Change
• Charmaine Pattinson-
Clinton Foundation
• V.S. Subrahmanian-
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Slides for: Automated Reasoning about behaviors

1030: Informatics in Policy and Decision Making for National Security (C. Barrett)
• G. Peter Nanos-
Johns Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory/Former Director Los Alamos National Laboratory/ VADM, USN (ret)
• Bruce Lawlor-
Virginia Tech/ Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Homeland Security/MGEN, USA (ret)
Slides for: Globalization, Illicit Trafficking and Instability: Security in the 21st Century
• Richard Hatchett-
National Institutes of Health-NIAID
Slides for: Decision Making and Decision Support For Public Health Emergencies
• Steve Shellman-
College of William and Mary
Slides for: Informatics in Policy and Decision Making for National Security: Overview of SAE &VIPCAT Related Work

1145: Panel and discussion
1230-1330: Lunch

1330: Computational Social & Behavioral Science (C. Barrett, chair)

1500: Complex Systems (M. Marathe, chair)

• Jeffrey Johnson-
Open University, UK
Slides for: Policy & Design in the Science of Complex Systems
• James Thorp-
Virginia Tech
Slides for: The Power System as a Complex System Synchrophasors and the Enlightened Electrical Grid
• Alessandro Vespignani-
Indiana University
• Stephen Eubank-
Virginia Tech
Slides for: Synthetic Information for Policy Informatics

1630: Panel and Discussion
1700: Adjourn
1830: Dinner

Evening Keynote Speaker: Dr. Houston T. (Terry) Hawkins, Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Slides for: The Art and Science of Surviving What We Are Becoming

Wednesday 14 July, 2010

0800-0845: Breakfast

0900: Informatics: Platforms & Foundations (B. Sobral, chair)

1030: Panel and discussion

1100: Informatics and Socially-Coupled Systems Science Programs (J. Bohland)

• Mario Rasetti-
Institute for Scientific Interchange & Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Slides for: Quantum Information topological variants and formal language theory
• Ralph Dum-
European Commission, Future & Emerging Technologies
• Harold Garner-
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech
Slides for: Socially Coupled Systems & Informatics, a part of what VBI does
• Andrew Musoke-
The Clinton Foundation
Slides for: Decision Informatics for Global Organizations

1210: Panel, discussions and closing
1300: Lunch
1400: Adjourn

Please Note: Other participants will contribute to panel sessions that will follow each session and include other invited scientists, academic administrators, students and representatives from the following science sponsoring agencies:

• National Science Foundation
• National Institutes of Health
• Department of Defense
• Department of Homeland Security
• European Commission
• The Clinton Foundation