Resilient-NET: International Networks Towards Urban Resilience

Time: Aug 1 – Aug 2, 2023
Location: Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Resilient Systems, Value Lab, 1 Create Way, 06-01 CREATE Tower, Singapore 138602

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Day 1
7:30-8:45
Signup + Breakfast
8:45-9:20

[8:45-8:50] Opening remarks given by the leadership team members of Singapore-ETH Centre
[8:50-9:05] Opening remarks given by the US NSF Program Officer (pre-recorded video)
[9:05-9:20] Overview and introduction to the project and workshop
 
9:20-10:05
Keynote 1 (On Zoom)
Speaker: Dr. Jayant Kalagnanam, Director of AI Applications & Distinguished Industry Leader, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Founding director of IBM Singapore Research Collaboratory
Title: AI for Cyber-Physical Systems – with a mix of examples from Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Earth systems

10:05-10:25
Break

10:25-11:10
Keynote 2
Speaker: Prof. Bozidar Stojadinovic, Prof. Edmond Lo
Title: Modeling and Quantifying the Resilience of Interdependent Systems in Dense Urban Regions

11:10-12:40
[11:10-11:40]
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Pazour, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Title: Open challenges and salient modeling features of supply chain resiliency and last-mile goods and people movement in cities. 
[11:40-12:10]
Speaker: Dr. Beatrice Cassottana
Title: InfraRisk - a simulation model for estimating the indirect impacts of infrastructure disruptions.
[12:10-12:40]
Speaker: Dr. Hiba Baroud, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
Title: Are we ready for the next disaster? The role of data, humans, and uncertainty in achieving sustainable resilience.

12:40 – 1:40
Lunch break
1:40 – 3:10
[1:40-2:10]
Speaker: Tanya Talwar
Title: Climate resilience modelling and pre-emptive planning
[2:10-2:40]
Speaker: Dr. Lijuan Shen
Title: Cyber-physical systems resilience
[2:40-3:10]
Speaker: Dr. Siqi Song
Title: Exploring the relationship between urban resilience and the built environment
 
3:10 – 3:30
Break
3:30 – 5:00
[3:30-4:00]
Speaker: Pradeep Alva
Title: Overview on resilience in the built environment and work on digital twins for energy, carbon and climate resilience
[4:00-4:30]
Speaker: Prof. Renate Schubert
Title: How to strengthen the social resilience of urban systems?
 
[4:30-5:00]
Speaker: Dr. Linyin Cheng, University of Arkansas
Title: Climate risk from compound events
6:30
Dinner:
Tamarind Restaurant; Tamarind Hill Singapore
30 Labrador Villa Road
Singapore 119189
 
Day 2
9:00-12:30
Discussions on the future collaborations. The goals are:
 
1.     Identify future collaboration topics (problems, data, platform, etc.)
2.     Discussions on potential student/scholar short-term visit
3.     Discussions on future plans (meetings, 2024 workshops, etc.)
 
[9:00-9:55]
Topic 1. Collaborations on future cyber-physical systems resilience
[9:55-10:50]
Topic 2. Collaborations on future urban logistics resilience
[10:50-11:05] Break
[11:05-12:00]
Topic 3. Collaborations on the interactions between climate change, infrastructure resilience and social resilience
[12:00-12:30]
Discussions on follow-up actions, including future meetings, student/scholar visit, etc.