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2007 Program on Environmental Sensor Networks

Tutorials and Opening Workshop

January 13-16, 2008

General Information
Application
Schedule

General Information

The Opening Workshop of the SAMSI program on Environmental Sensor Networks will be Sunday-Wednesday, January 13-16, 2008, at the Radisson Hotel RTP in Research Triangle Park, NC. It will be initiated on Sunday by tutorials and an overview lecture.

The goal of the Opening Workshop is to identify research challenges and open problems facing embedded sensing of environmental phenomena, specifically focusing on the roles of inference, monitoring and prediction. Participants in this workshop will develop research questions for the working groups of Spring 2008. Themes could include both specific applications and contributions to broader theory and methodologies.

The workshop program will focus on the challenges posed by embedded networked sensing of environmental processes, such as biogeochemical exchanges between the atmosphere and biosphere, movement of particulates and solutes in flowing waters, animal movement, including applications involving imagery and acoustic sensing. The subsequent working groups will take up statistical and mathematical challenges in data processing and modeling. Topics might address network architecture for both static and mobile networks of sensors, spatial and temporal aspects of design, adaptive sampling and multi-scale computation, the role of inference and prediction for both data collection and processing, and data quality and integrity.

Program Committee: Zoe Cardon (The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Laboratory), Jorge Cortes (University of California-Santa Cruz), Don Estep (Colorado State University, Debora Estrin (University of California-Los Angeles), Paul Flikkema (Northern Arizona University), Mark Hansen (University of California-Los Angeles), Bin Yu (University of California-Berkeley, NAC Liaison); Jim Berger (SAMSI, Directorate Liaison); Jim Clark and Alan Gelfand (Duke University, Local Scientific Coordinators)

Application

On-line registrations are now closed. However, registrants are still welcome. Please call SAMSI at (919)685-9350.

Schedule

Sunday, January 13, 2008
Radisson Hotel RTP

	Overview Tutorials
8:00-9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:05	Welcome - Alan Karr, NISS
9:05-10:30	Paul Flikkema, Northern Arizona University Ecosystem Inferential Models to Control Data Acquisition and Assimilation
10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:15	Bill Kaiser, Univ. of California-Los Angeles Sensor Network Platforms for Rapidly Deployable, Configurable, and Sustainable Observatories
12:15-1:45	Lunch
1:45-3:15	Jennifer Hoeting, Colorado State University Hierarchical Modeling
3:15-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-5:00	Kiona Ogle, University of Wyoming Data-Model Integration: Examples from Belowground Ecosystem Ecology

Monday, January 14, 2008
Radisson Hotel RTP

8:30-9:00	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcome - Jim Berger, SAMSI
9:15-12:15	Applications I Matt Welsh, Harvard Universtiy (CS) Experiences with Sensor Networks for Volcano Monitoring Coffee Break Todd Dawson, Univ. of California-Berkeley Wireless Sensor Networks in Forest Ecological Research Discussion Session Alan Gelfand, Duke University Christine Shoemaker, Cornell University
12:15-1:15	Lunch
1:15-3:40	Applications II Mike Godin, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Challenges of Designing and Operating an Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network Deborah Estrin, Univ. of California-Los Angeles Experiences in Developing an Ecosystem of Wireless Sensing Systems for Ecological Observation Discussion Session Zoe Cardon, The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Laboratory Lance Waller, Emory University
3:40-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:00	Five Minute Madness Session: Each interested participant has 5 minutes and 5 slides to indicate research interests or propose research directions. Moderator: Paul Flikkema, Northern Arizona University
5:00-5:30	Poster Advertisement Session: 2 minute ads by each poster presenter
6:30-8:30	Poster Session and Reception SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards and tape. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. The boards can accommodate up to 16 pages of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Radisson Hotel RTP

9:00-12:00	Mathematics Perspective Robert Ghrist, University of Illinois A Topological Integration Theory for Sensor Networks Coffee Break Yuliy Baryshnikov, Bell Labs Statistical Recovery of Geometry and Topology in Sensor Networks Discussion Session Jorge Cortes, University of San Diego Donald Estep, Colorado State University
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-3:30	Statistics Perspective Bin Yu, Univ. of California-Berkeley Compression and Analysis of Golden Gate Bridge Sensor Data Soumen Lahiri, Texas A&M On Optimal Configuration of the LEACH Discussion Session Jim Clark, Duke University Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont Sensor Network and Wireless Research for Harsh Environments
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:00	Initial Discussion of Working Groups

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Radisson Hotel RTP

9:00-10:30	Computer Science Perspective Jun Yang, Duke University Data-Driven Processing in Sensor Networks Discussion Session Carla Ellis, Duke University George Michailidis, University of Michigan
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	New Researcher Session Ali Jadbabaie, University of Pennsylvania From Distributed Coordination and Consensus in Multi-agent Systems to Coverage in Mobile Sensor Networks Vin de Silva, Pomona College Homology Theory and the Coverage Problem Patrick Wolfe, Harvard University Sampling Random Networks to Discover Structure: Models and Methods
12:00-1:15	Lunch
1:15-2:45	Working Group Formation and Initial Meeting
2:45-3:30	Working Group Reports

Thursday and Friday: Possible working group meetings at SAMSI

Local Information (Hotels, etc.)

Environmental Sensor Networks Program Page