The workshop will feature a couple of talks to present state-of-the-art in FEW nexus as well as data science to facilitate gap analysis and identification of transformative research opportunities in data science. For example, Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Director, US Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture is a keynote speaker in the opening morning of the workshop.
The workshop will use both FEW nexus pull and data science technology push discussions to identify research challenges in understanding, appreciating and visualizing the interactions among the FEW systems. The first two successive sessions will explore these opposing directions via talks and breakout disccusions. The second day will prioritize and detail FEW inspired data science grand challenges in a synthesis session.
The workshop is scheduled to start at 8:30 am on Monday, Oct. 5 and end at no later than 3:30 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 6.
| DAY 1 - October 5, 2015 | |||||
| 8am | Arrive at NIFA (please allow time for NIFA security process. Screening 50 participants via a single metal detector may take up time) |
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| 8am - 830am | Walk through Security, Continental Breakfast | ||||
| 830am - 845am | Overview, Goals, Introductions | ||||
| 845am - 1030am | Pull Panel: Data-Driven FEW Nexus Science and Application Innovations | ||||
| FEW Nexus Overview (with life-cycle analysis): Rabi Mohtar (TAMU), slides | Energy - Water Nexus: Bob Vallario (USDoE) | ||||
| FEW Nexus - USDA/NIFA Perspective: Sonny Ramaswamy (USDA) | |||||
| Water - Food Nexus: Rich Alexander (USGS), slides | |||||
| Energy - Food Nexus: Louis Tupas (USDA) | |||||
| Drivers of FEW Nexus: Rattan Lal (OSU) | |||||
| 1030am-1045am | Break | ||||
| 1045am-12noon | Pull Break Out: Data-Driven FEW Nexus Science and Application Innovations: Challenges & Opportunities | ||||
| Four Groups: - Food-Water Nexus, - Water-Energy Nexus, - Energy-Food Nexus, - Cross-cutting (FEW Nexus) |
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| 12noon-1pm | Lunch | ||||
| 1pm-130pm | Break Out Leaders Report to Plenary | ||||
| 130pm-3pm | Push Panel: Data Science Research Needs to Understand and Innovate for FEW Nexus | ||||
| Data Science Challenges in Sustainable Energy: Zico Kolter (CMU), slides | |||||
| Open-Source Precision Agriculture and Analytics Driven Decision Support: Chandra Krintz (UCSB), slides | |||||
| Machine Learning Challenges: Thomas Dietterich (Oregon U), slides | |||||
| Trustworthiness and Sustainability: Data Science for FEW Nexus in the Developing Regions: Inna Kouper (Indiana U), slides | |||||
| Informatics Challenges: Vasant Honavar (Penn State), slides | |||||
| Remote Sensing and Water: Brad Doorn (NASA), slides | |||||
| 3pm-315pm | Break | ||||
| 315pm-430pm | Push Break Out: Discussion for Data Science Research Needs (to Understand and Innovate for FEW Nexus) |
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| Four Groups: - FEW Nexus Data Collection (e.g., sensing, spatial and temporal sampling, minimum data sets), - FEW Nexus Data Exploration (e.g., summarization, visualization, trend monitoring), - FEW Nexus Data Extrapolation (e.g., forecasting, classification, machine learning, pattern mining), - Cross-cutting (e.g., data sharing, uncertainty, heterogeneity in scale and semantics) |
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| 430pm-5pm | Break Out Leaders Report to Plenary | ||||
| 5pm-530pm | Plan for Day 2 | ||||
| 6pm-730pm | Dinner | ||||
| DAY 2 - October 6, 2015 | |||||
| 8am | Arrive at NIFA (please allow time for NIFA security process. Screening 50 participants via a single metal detector may take up time) |
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| 8am - 830am | Walk through Security, Continental Breakfast | ||||
| 830am - 845am | Review of Day 1, Goals for Day 2 | ||||
| 845am - 945am | Synthesis Panel: Summarize Day 1 Discussions into a Small Number of Potentially-Transformative Data Science Research Topics Needed to Understand and Innovate for FEW Nexus | ||||
| 945am-10am | Break | ||||
| 10am-11am | Synthesis Break Out 1: Quad-Chart Potentially-Transformative Data-Science Research Topics | ||||
| 11am-1130am | Break Out Leaders Report to Plenary | ||||
| 1130am-1230pm | Lunch | ||||
| 1230pm-145pm | Synthesis Break Out 2: Detail Potentially-Transformative Data-Science Research Topics | ||||
| 145pm-215pm | Break Out Leaders Report to Plenary | ||||
| 215pm-230pm | Break | ||||
| 230pm-315pm | Workshop Report to Senior Leaders from NSF, NIFA, USDOE, EPA, etc. | ||||
| 315pm-330pm | Wrap Up, Writing Assignment and Schedule, slides | ||||