| Day 1: Thursday November 4 | |
| Morning: Introductory talks and themes discussion | |
| 8:00AM-9:00AM | Breakfast pick-up |
| 9:00AM- 9:05AM | Domitilla Del Vecchio (MIT): Opening remarks |
| 9:05AM- 9:15AM | Walter Rance Cleaveland II (NSF, CCF Division Director): Welcome |
| 9:15AM- 9:30AM | Domitilla Del Vecchio (MIT): Workshop introduction and Q&A |
| 9:30AM-10:00AM | Hana El Samad (UCSF): Build to understand |
| 10AM-10:30AM | Mustafa Khammash (ETH): Nothing so practical as a good theory: Theory and methods for practical synthetic controller design | 10:30AM-11:00AM | Coffee break |
| 11:00AM-11:30AM | Eduardo Sontag (NEU): Systems and control for composition |
| 11:30AM-12:00PM | Jeff Hasty (UCSD): Dynamics and control in small ecologies |
| 12:00PM-12:30PM | Ophelia Venturelli (U. of Wisconsin): Dynamics and control in engineered microbial communities |
| Afternoon: Short talks and themes discussion | |
| 12:30PM-12:45PM | Lunch box pick-up |
| 12:45PM-2:20PM | Working lunch: Short talks from participants (10 minutes each) - Diego Oyarzun (U. of Edinburgh (UK)), Neda Bagheri (U. Washington, Seattle), David Ross (NIST), Elisa Franco (UCLA), Brian Munsky (Colorado State U.), Enoch Yeung (UCSB), Andras Gyorgy (NYU, Abu-Dhabi) |
| 2:20PM-3:00PM | Organization of break-out sessions: extraction of main research topics emerging from talks, starting with robustness, scalability, modularity, and systematic design - grouping into four teams - electing a team leader for each team - break into groups |
| 3:00PM-5:00PM | Groups discussions on the main themes - each team leader will collect ideas into a power point presentation |
| 5:00PM-5:30PM | Summary and adjourn for the day |
| Day 2: Friday November 5 | |
| 8:00AM-8:45AM | Breakfast pick-up |
| 8:45AM-9:00AM | Domitilla Del Vecchio (MIT): Opening remarks for day two |
| 9:00AM-10:40AM | Short talks from participants (10 minutes each) - Josh Leonard (North Western U.), Murat Arcak (UC Berkeley), Howard Salis (Penn State U.), Leo Bleris (UT Dallas), Marcella Gomez (UC Santa Cruz), Xiaojun Tian (Arizona State U.), Chris Myers (U Colorado, Boulder), Xiao Wang (Arizona State U.) |
| 10:40AM-11:30AM | Organization of break-out sessions: shuffling groups - create four new teams - assign new leader for each team - break out into four new groups - lunch pick up |
| 11:30PM-1:00PM | Working lunch: Groups discussions on the main themes - each team leader will collect ideas into a power point presentation |
| 1:00PM-2:00PM | Team leaders finalize presentations |
| 2:00PM-3:30PM | All team leaders (~8 teams) each give a 10-minute presentation on the group discussion outcomes |
| 3:30PM-4:00PM | Summary, follow-ups, and meeting adjourn |
Remark:
Morning speakers: please plan for a 25-minute presentation to allow at least 5 minutes for Q&A
Short talks: please plan for a 10-minute presentation - a timer will set the start and end of the presentation - 2 additional minutes in-between presentations will be used for Q&A and speaker transition. All presentations should be placed in a dropbox folder, which will be shared with participants a week ahead of the workshop, so that all presentations will be on the same computer to avoid delays.