Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability:
Sustainability and Resilience in the Face of Emergent Threats
14 - 16 September 2022
University of Miskolc, Hungary
Dormitory (Kollegium) E/1
Workshop Focus
Organizing Committee
Dr. Rupert Baumgartner, University of Graz, Austria
Dr. Heriberto Cabezas, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Dr. Csaba Deák, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Dr. Urmila Diwekar, Vishwamitra Research Institute, USA
Local Organization: Mr. Gábor Nagy, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Mr. Baibhaw Kumar, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Program
Tuesday, 13 September
6:00 PM Informal Dinner for Arriving Participants
Wednesday, 14 September
Registration & Coffee
9:00 AM Welcome
Prof. Dr. Zita Horváth, Rector
University of Miskolc
9:10 AM Introduction (Organizers)
9:20 AM TARDIS’22 Questions
9:40 AM-12:00 PM Lectures/Discussion
9:40 AM Resilience – A Discussion Contribution from the Regional Perspective
Michael Narodoslawsky, Technical University of Graz (Ret.), Austria
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM There is a Lot We Can Do: Climate Resilience Campus
Brigitte Hasewend, Technical University of Graz / European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance, Austria
10:50 AM Systemic Risk and Spreading Processes in Complex Systems
Hrvoje Štefančić, Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia
11:10 AM Net-Zero, Nature-Positive, and Socially Just: Opportunities for Sustainable Engineering
Bhavik Bakshi, Ohio State University, USA
11:30 AM Toward a leading indicator of catastrophic shifts in complex systems: Assessing changing conditions in nation states
Heriberto Cabezas, University of Miskolc, Hungary
11:50 AM Summary & Discussion
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30-5:00 PM Lectures/Discussion
1:30 PM Corporate sustainability management in times of crises
Rupert Baumgartner, University of Graz, Austria
1:50 PM Structural Consideration of Sustainability and Resilience
Ferenc Friedler, Széchenyi István University, Hungary
2:10 PM Water sustainability in the time of changing climate: Multi-scale approach using systems engineering
Yogendra Shastri, Indian Institute of Technology – Mumbai, India
2:30 PM The GUMBO; Simulating the fate of an integrated Earth System
Roelof Boumans, Affordable Futures, USA
2:50 PM Planning for Resilience to Known and Unknown Threats in Practical Contexts
Adjo Amekudzi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
3:10 PM Coffee Break
3:40 PM Topological Structure-Function Analysis of Complex Resilient Networks
Venkat Venkatasubramanian Columbia University, USA
4:00 PM Increasing Risk of Heat-Related Extreme under Climate Change
Ashok Mishra, Clemson University, USA
4:20 PM Sustainability economies for an unsustainable economy: do we need a different approach?
Pauline Deutz, University of Hull, United Kingdom
4:40 PM Exploring the interlinks between Circular Economy and Sustainability Assessment
Tomas Ramos, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
5:00 PM Summary & Discussion
5:20 PM End of Day 1
7:00 PM Gala Dinner
Thursday, 15 September
9:00 AM-12:00 PM Lectures/Discussion
9:00 AM Recap of Day 1
9:10 AM Addressing the drinking water crisis. Impact investing vs the human right to drinking water
Tebaldo Vinciguerra, Dicastery for Integral Human Development, The Vatican
9:30 AM Coupling Earth Observations, machine learning, and optimization to uncover productivity drivers in insect pollination dependent crops
Vikhas Khanna, University of Pittsburg, USA
9:50 AM Sustainability Benefits of Valorizing Associated Flare Gas―An Unrealized Opportunity to Enable the Low Carbon Transition and Mitigate Climate Change and Other Sustainability Challenges with Fossil Energy
Eric Tan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
10:10 AM Coffee Break
10:40 AM Enough: Flourishing within nature’s bounty
Brian Fath, Towson University/IIASA, USA/Austria
11:00 AM The Water, Food, and Sustainability Nexus
Haripriya Gundimeda, Indian Institute of Technology – Mumbai, India
11:20 AM Innovation, Business and Sustainability
Csaba Deák University of Miskolc, Hungary
11:40 AM Summary & Discussion
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30-5:00 PM Lectures/Discussion
1.30 PM Role of the Wastes of Mining and Allied Industries in the Circular Economy – Urban Mining
Gábor Mucsi University of Miskolc, Hungary
1:50 PM Global Goals, Local Action: Reflections from an Urban Partnership for Sustainable Development in Ireland.
Gerard Mullally, University College Cork, Ireland
2:10 PM Evaluation of global techno-socio-economic policies for FEW sustainability with an optimal control-based approach
Urmila Diwekar, Vishwamitra Research Institute, USA
2:30 PM Modeling Anthropogenic Material Cycles using PIOTs for Sustainable Planet
Schweta Singh, Purdue University, USA
2.50 PM Subterranean Energy Sources
Krisztian Baracza, University of Miskolc, Hungary
3.10 PM Coffee Break
3:40 PM Estimating environmental releases at the chemical end-of-life stage to support risk assessment
Gerardo Ruiz-Mercado, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA
4:00 PM Sustainable Energy and Strategic Minerals—Geothermal Lithium Extraction at the Salton Sea, California
Timothy Krantz, Redlands University, USA
4:20 PM What do we do about the UN Global Plastic Pollution Agreement?
Amy Landis, Colorado School of Mines, USA
4:40 PM Summary & Discussion
5:00 PM End of Day 2
6:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Informal Reception with University of Miskolc Faculty
Friday, 16 September
9:00 AM-12:00 PM Summary/Discussion
9:00 AM TARDIS’22 Questions
9:30 AM Recap & Summary Discussion
10:30 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM TARDIS Major Points
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM End of TARDIS 2022
