Posner Center
Carnegie Mellon University
Sunday June 24:
09:00 - 16:00 Optional organized excursion (Trolley departs Marriott Courtyard Shadyside hotel at 09:00 and will provide drop-off and pick-up at Heinz History Center and Riverboat Cruise; returns to hotel approximately 16:00)
17:45 Shuttle will depart hotel to Posner Center (Transportation Solutions will provide shuttle service. If you walk, you should allow 25 minutes.)
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome reception (Reception Area, Posner Center) (Transportation Solutions will provide shuttle service. If you walk, you should allow 25 minutes.)
Monday, June 25:
07:45 Shuttle will depart hotel to Posner Center (Transportation Solutions will provide shuttle service. If you walk, you should allow 25 minutes.)
08:00 - 8:30 Coffee, tea, juice and continental breakfast
08:30 - 8:45 Welcome presentations and orientation to Carnegie Mellon and Department of Engineering and Public Policy
08:45 - 10:15 Session 1: Physical Infrastructure (Chair - Prof. Cliff Davidson, Carnegie Mellon)
(all talks 12-minutes w/3 minutes Q&A)
Koen H. Van Dam (Delft), “Agent-based Modeling of Socio-technical Systems Using a Generic Ontology”
Kathleen Spees (Carnegie Mellon), “Demand Response to Time of Use Pricing”
Martijn Leijten (Delft), “The Management of Complex Underground Infrastructure Projects”
Jasper Veldman (Groningen), “Using Process Data for Condition Based Maintenance: A case study”
Katsunobu Sasanuma (MIT), “Road Pricing and Parking Pricing - A Queueing Model for On-Street Parking”
Igor Nikolic (Delft), “Understanding and Shaping the Co-evolution of Industry-infrastructure Systems”
10:15 - 10:30 General discussion of Session 1
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/tea break and student posters
11:00 - 12:00 Session 2: Technology and Security (Chair - Prof. Adam Holbrook, Simon Fraser)
(all talks 12-minutes w/3 minutes Q&A)
Anthony Barrett (Carnegie Mellon), “Estimated Fatalities and Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures for a Terrorist-Caused Urban Release of Chlorine”
Lara Pierpoint (MIT), “Proliferation Resistance of Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles”
Paul Hines (Carnegie Mellon), “Understanding and Taming the Complexity of Electrical Power Networks”
Kong Chyong (Cambridge), TENTATIVE.
12:00 - 12:15 General discussion of Session 2.
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break and student posters
13:00 - 14:00 Session 3: Energy and Environmental Policy (Chair - Prof. Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon)
(all talks 12-minutes w/3 minutes Q&A)
David Diamond (George Mason), “Evaluating Public Policies for Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Evidence from State and Local Data”
Adam Newcomer (Carnegie Mellon), “The Impact of Storage on the Economics of Synthetic Gas Plants”
Nygil Goggins (Simon Fraser), “The Development of a Hybrid Energy Economy Model for Energy Emission Policy Analysis in Asia”
Gabrielle Gaustad (MIT), “Analysis of Secondary Aluminum Recovery Using Chance-constrained Optimization”
14:00 - 14:15 General discussion of Session 3
14:15 - 15:15 Session 4: Carbon Management (Chair - Dr. David Reiner, Cambridge)
(all talks 12-minutes w/3 minutes Q&A)
Constantine Samaras (Carnegie Mellon), “Plug-hybrid Electric Vehicles in a Carbon Constrained World”
Steven Groves (Simon Fraser), “Predictive Model for Assessment Policies to Mitigate the Impact of Emerging Technologies and Devices”
Travis Franck (MIT), “Climate Change and Subjective Well-being: How the choice of utility functions changes integrated assessments”
Xi Liang (Cambridge), “Financing Lower Carbon Electricity Technologies in China”
15:15 - 15:30 General discussion of Session 4
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break and student posters
16:00 - 17:00 Separate meetings of participating students and of participating faculty
17:00 Shuttle will depart hotel to Posner Center (Transportation Solutions will provide shuttle service. If you walk, you should allow 25 minutes.)
18:00 Molley's Trolley will depart hotel to LeMont Restaurant
18:30 Dinner at LeMont Restaurant
~21:15 Molley's Trolley will depart LeMont Restaurant to hotel
Tuesday, June 26:
07:45 Shuttle will depart hotel to Posner Center (Transportation Solutions will provide shuttle service. If you walk, you should allow 25 minutes.)
08:00 - 08:30 Coffee, tea, juice and continental breakfast
08:30 - 09:30 Session 5: Management of Technological Innovation (Chair - Dr. Frank Field, MIT)
(all talks 12-minutes w/3 minutes Q&A)
Wouter Boon (Utrecht), “Demand Articulation in Emerging Technologies: A comparison of two intermediary organizations in pharmacology”
Mark Avnet (MIT), “Designing Across Boundaries: The role of boundary-spanning activity in multidisciplinary design teams”
Roald Slurs (Utrecht), “Patterns of Cumulative Causation in the Formation of a Technological Innovation System: The case of Biofuels in the Netherlands”
Adriana Kocornik-Mina (George Mason), “The Effects of Space and Time on Inter-State Disparities in India”
09:30 - 09:45 General discussion of Session 5
09:45 - 10:45 Session 6: Global Innovation Networks (Chair - Prof. Ruud Smits, Utrecht)
(all talks 12-minutes w/3 minutes Q&A)
Brian Fifarek (Carnegie Mellon), “The Internationalization of Supply Chains and the Locations of Innovation Activities”
Monique Nagle (Utrecht), “Building Bridges to the Bay Area: Identifying factors that influence co-operation concerning technological start-ups to set policy on bilateral entrepreneurship between the Netherlands and the United States”
Suthikorn Kingkaew (Cambridge), “Chinese Biotechnology Industry: Can it catch up with the world”
Juan Julio Gutierrez (George Mason), “Effect of Foreign Technology Diffusion on the Demand of Skilled Labor in Low and Medium Technology (LMT) Sectors”
10:45 - 11:00 General discussion of Session 6
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee/tea break and student posters
11:15 - 12:30 Session 7: Information and Communication Technology Policy (Chair - Prof. Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon)
(all talks 12-minutes w/3 minutes Q&A)
Efrat Ben-Yehuda (Simon Fraser), “The Return of the Gift: Traditional Relationships of Exchange and Trust in Contemporary Technology Communities”
Janice Tsai (Carnegie Mellon), “The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An experimental study”
Simone Sillem (Delft), “Comparing Cell Broadcast and Text Messaging for Citizens Warning”
Chintan Vaishnav (MIT), “The End of Core: Should disruptive innovation in telecom invoke discontinuous regulatory response?”
Steve Sheng (Carnegie Mellon), “Anti-Phishing Phil: A game that teaches people not to fall for phish”
12:30 - 12:45 General discussion of Session 7
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch break and student posters
13:30 - 16:30 Faculty meet in EPP Conference room, 129 Baker Hall
13:30 - 15:30 Campus tour for students
15:30 - 16:30 Workshop/discussion organized by Koen van Dam and Igor Nikolic on how to promote Ph.D. community building among the members of the TMP graduate consortium, including an opportunity for graduate students to explore, in a structured way, options to establish research relations
16:30 - 17:00 Best paper and best poster awards
17:30 Shuttle (or walk) from campus to hotel for those who do not want to continue the workshop discussion (see Patti to arrange shuttle)
18:00 - 20:00 Pizza and continuation of workshop/discussion for those who wish to stay
POSTERS
To date the following posters have been proposed. We anticipate more, and urge students from other institutions who cannot attend to send a poster with a colleague. Students doing a platform presentation are also welcome to do a poster, either on a different topic, or to provide elaboration of ideas covered in the platform talk.
13:30 . 13:35 General introduction to the campus.
13:35 . 13:40 Walk to Philip Chosky Theater located in Purnell Center for the Arts.
13:45 . 14:00 Brief tour of Philip Chosky Theater by David Randolph, Facilities Manager (x8-1692).
14:00 . 14:15 Overview of activities in the College of Fine Arts by Luis Rico-Guitierrez, Associate Dean.
14:15 . 14:20 Walk to Hamerschlag Hall, Room 1112.
14:20 . 14:30 Brief demonstration of work on face alignment techniques by Leon Gu, Doctoral Student, Computer Science.
14:30 . 14:40 Brief demonstration of work on surgical navigation by Hua Zhong, Doctoral Student, Computer Science.
14:45 . 15:00 Visit exterior of clean room (basement of Hamerschlag Hall, Level F) . Chris Bowman, Director, Nanofabrication Facility, Electrical and Computer Engineering (x8-2471).
15:00 . 15:15 Visit electron microscopy labs (basement of Roberts Hall) . Tom Nuhfer, Supervisor, Electron Optics, Materials Science and Engineering (x8-2691).
Return to Posner Center by 5:30pm . via Engineering and Public Policy office and College of Fine Arts building.
Engineering and Public Policy 2007