SERDP NICE Workshop 2022 (Virtual)

SERDP-NICE 2022 Hybrid Workshop Agenda
Venue: Northeastern University, Boston, MA (Virtual and all times US Eastern)

About SERDP NICE: The project titled “Networked Infrastructure under Compound Extremes (NICE)”, funded by US DOD’s SERDP, was announced by DOD with a brief description here and by Northeastern here, and subsequently presented at a SERDP “Virtual Poster” here and a SERDP-ESTCP Symposium here. The first workshop for SERDP NICE is being organized from November 1-3, 2022.

Zoom link for the virtual workshop is here: Join via Zoom

Calendar Invite: Day 1 || Day 2 || Day 3

Download the Booklet here: Workshop Booklet

  • Day 1: Tuesday, November 1 (Session 1: Setting the Stage)
    Session Chair: Ben Trump, United States Army Corps of Engineers
    • 1:00 – 2:00 PM: Edmund Russo, United States Army Corps of Engineers
      (Addressing Compound Threats: Army Installations Strategy as an Enabler to Army Modernization and Multi-Domain Operations) || Slides || Presentation on YouTube ||
    • 2:00 – 3:00 PM: Stephen Flynn, Northeastern University
      (Countering Emerging Threats and Hazards to Critical Infrastructure: The Resilience Imperative) || Slides ||
    • 3:00 – 4:00 PM: Igor Linkov, United States Army Corps of Engineers
      (Resilience and Efficiency Tradeoffs in Complex Systems) || Slides || Presentation on YouTube ||
    • 4:00 PM: Adjourn Day 1
  • Day 2: Wednesday, November 2 (Session 2: SERDP NICE Projects: Part I)
    Session Chair: Sam Chatterjee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    • 11:00 – 11:30 AM: Auroop Ganguly, Northeastern University
      (The state of the DOD SERDP NICE project at Year 1) || The slide deck and presentation are specific to the status of the project and available to the team members upon request. For a related presentation led by Ganguly, please see the 2021 SERDP-ESTCP symposium (here). ||
    • 11:30 – 12:00 PM: Ben Trump, United States Army Corps of Engineers
      (Compound Threats, Resilience, Methods, and Governance)
    • 12:00 – 12:30 PM: Marta Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
      (An interdisciplinary approach to managing natural hazards risk)) || Slides ||
    • 12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
  • Day 2: Wednesday, November 2 (Session 3: SERDP NICE Projects: Part II)
    Session Chair: Marta Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
    • 1:30 – 2:00 PM: Sam Chatterjee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
      (Quantifying interdependent infrastructure network resilience) || Slides ||
    • 2:00 – 2:30 PM: Narmadha Meenu Mohankumar/Robert Brigantic, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
      (Notional DoD installations and potential system failures) || Slides ||
    • 2:30 – 3:00 PM: Satish Chikkagoudar, United States Naval Research Laboratory
      (Assurance by design for cyber-physical data-driven systems)
    • 3:00 – 3:30 PM: Break and Mixer
  • Day 2: Wednesday, November 2 (Session 4: SERDP NICE Futures)
    Session Chair: Auroop Ganguly, Northeastern University
    • 3:30 – 4:00 PM: Alexandre Tartakovsky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
      (Physics-informed Gaussian process regression model for parameter estimation in groundwater models)
    • 4:00 – 4:30 PM: Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
      (Graph analytics in the accelerator-enabled exascale era) || Slides ||
    • 4:30 – 5:00 PM: Himangshu Das, United States Army Corps of Engineers
      (A Case Study to Enhance Flood Protection and Resiliency: Overview of Coastal Texas Mega Project) || Slides ||
    • 5:00 PM: Adjourn Day 2
  • Day 3: Thursday, November 3 (Session 5: External Perspectives)
    Session Chair: Steve Flynn, Northeastern University
    • 11:00 – 12:00 PM: Keynote Talk 1: Dan Eisenberg, Naval Postgraduate School (SERDP Project Lessons)
      (Infrastructure Vulnerability and Resilience Inside and Outside the Fence Line) || Slides ||
    • 12:00 – 12:30 PM: Invited Talk 1: Invited Talk 1: Udit Bhatia, Indian Institute Of Technology–Gandhinagar
      (Early Indicators of sudden collapse in infrastructure networks subject to concurrent extremes: Integrating data, physics, and complexity)
    • 12:30 – 1:00 PM: Invited Talk 2: Invited Talk 2: John Rowe, risQ/Intercontinental Exchange Inc
      (Incentivizing urban climate resilience through the muni bond market) || Slides ||
    • 1:00 – 1:30 PM: Invited Talk 3: Invited Talk 3: Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University
      (Social Capital’s Critical Role in Disaster Mitigation and Recovery) || Slides ||
    • 1:30 – 2:30 PM: Lunch Break
  • Day 3: Thursday, November 3 (Project Planning)
    • 2:30 – 4:00 PM: SERDP Team: Working Discussions on SERDP NICE Next Steps
    • 4:00 – 5:00 PM: Mixer
    • 5:00 PM: Adjourn Day 3 and Conclude Workshop