Systems Science: Shaping Society’s Future

Agenda – Thursday, May 10, 2012

BU Photonics Building, 9th Floor

8:00 – 8:30 AM Breakfast – CISE Overview – Paschalidis
8:30 – 10:15 AM Welcome, Transportation and Civil Infrastructure in Urban Areas

Building a Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for the Smart City: the Case of “Smart Parking”
Christos Cassandras, Boston University – Presentation
Video Analytics for Homeland Security
Venkatesh Saligrama, Boston University
Measuring Traffic with Wireless Sensors
Pravin Varaiya, University of California, Berkeley – Presentation
Session Chair: David Castañon, Boston University

10:15 – 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Healthcare Systems

Designing Clinical Trials for Cancer: An Analytics Approach
Dimitris Bertsimas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Systems Biology and Drug Discovery
James Collins, Boston University – Presentation
Bringing Autonomous Glucose Control Systems to the Hospital and Out-patient Settings
Edward Damiano, Boston University
Session Chair: Yannis Paschalidis, Boston University

12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch and BU Bright Minds: Graduate Student Research Poster Session.
This event showcases the newest research from the next generation of emerging Boston University talent.

1:30 – 3:00 PM Energy and Power Systems

Driving Behavior Change with Energy Insights
Yoni Ben-Meshulam, Opower
Distributed Demand Control and Power Market Reform
Michael Caramanis, Boston University – Presentation
Architecting the Future Power Grid
Eugene Litvinov, ISO New England – Presentation
Session Chair: John Baillieul, Boston University

3:00 – 3:15 PM Break
3:15 – 4:30 PM Panel Discussion, Systems Science: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

Tamer Basar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Y.C. Ho, Harvard University – Presentation
Jeffrey Katz, IBM, Energy and Utilities
P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University: Panel Moderator – Presentation
Bob Tenney, BAE Systems

4:30 – 5:30 PM Reception