Conferences and Workshops
I have organized over 140 workshops and conferences.
Highlight Conferences/Workshops I Have Organized
- Learning Seminar and Symposium on Maritime Cyber Security, 2015
This jump-started an entire subdiscipline and led to the first-ever book on the subject of maritime cyber security.
- Mathematics of Planet Earth, 2013-2018
I organized workshops around five research clusters, each involving focused workshops: Sustainable Human Environments, Global Change, Data-aware Energy Use, Natural Disasters, Management of Natural Resources. A sixth cluster was Education for the Planet Earth of Tomorrow. In all, the project ran 25 workshops at a wide variety of locations. The series was motivated by a year-long international effort initiative by 13 North American Mathematical sciences Research Institutes, including DIMACS. This 25-workshop series led to my book with Hans Kaper on Mathematics of Planet Earth (2019) and to a 2022 book on Mathematics for Action: Supporting Science-based Decision-making.
- US-China Leadership Summit, 2006, 2008, 2010
NSF asked me to organize this “summit” of leaders of major US and Chinese computer science departments and schools as well as the Director and Assistant Director of NSF. This developed into a sequence of three such summits with workshops (and visits to universities) in China and the U.S. It identified research topics ripe for collaboration.
- International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, 2009, 2011, …
Together with Alexis Tsoukias, I helped create this ongoing international conference in 2009. I chaired the second one, at DIMACS in 2011, and worked on three others.
- Maritime Risk Symposium, 2011 …
This annual symposium is co-organized by the Coast Guard and academia. I co-chaired the second MRS in 2011 at Rutgers and have served on the steering committee and as “senior mentor” for every one since then.
- University-Coast Guard Research Initiative on Maritime Cyber Security, 2015-2018
As co-chair of this initiative, I organized a series of 6 workshops.
- U.S.-Africa Advanced Study Institutes and Workshops, 2006-2012
A series of seven Institutes and Workshops for U.S. and African students and faculty, on mathematical biology topics ranging from modeling of infectious diseases of Africa to conservation biology to landscape ecology to economic ecology, and held in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, and Uganda.
- DHS University Centers of Excellence Initiative on the Supply Chain During COVID, 2020-21
I organized a series of eight workshops on topics ranging from the supply chain for food to distribution of the COVID vaccines, leading a partnership with 11 other DHS university centers of excellence.
- ARIDAM: Advanced Research Institutes on Discrete Applied Mathematics, 1985-92
A series of seven Conferences/Institutes under the auspices of RUTCOR.
- DIMACS-LAMSADE Workshops, 2004…
With Alexis Tsoukias, I have co-organized eight workshops held at University of Paris-Dauphine (two virtual), with more planned. Topics have ranged from computer science and decision theory to smart cities to citizen science to socially responsible algorithms.
- Energy Modeling, 1978-1982
A series of symposia sponsored by the Institute of Gas Technology and leading to four edited books on this topic.
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- SIAM 25th Anniversary Meeting 1977 (Program Chair)
- Workshop on Mathematical Challenges for Sustainability, 2010
This led to a book on that topic published by the American Mathematical Society.
DIMACS Special Focus Programs
DIMACS special focus programs are multi-year, multi-workshop programs consisting of a series of workshops and working group meetings and tutorials. I was the main organizer of the following special foci:
- Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology, 1994-2000
- Computational Molecular Biology, 2000-2004
- Information Processing in Biology, 2004-2011
- Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, 2001-2011
- Computation and the Socioeconomic Sciences, 2004-2008
- Algorithmic Decision Theory, 2010-2013
- Mechanisms and Algorithms to Augment Human Decision Making, 2019-2025 (together with David Pennock)