Resilience Week 2018 Call for Submissions: Student Competition and Complex Environments

Resilience Week is accepting whitepapers/lightning talks in the three topical areas below. Additional information can be found on the attached flyers and on the website. The submission site can be found HERE.

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS

• Submission Due: June 4
• Acceptance Notification: July 9

Infrastructures: Creating and sustaining resilient critical infrastructure is a diverse and complex mission. Critical infrastructure systems in the United States consist of a diversity of interdependent networks, varied operating and ownership models, systems in both the physical world and cyberspace, and stakeholders from multi-jurisdictional levels. Methods to improve critical infrastructure resilience are advancing, but much more can be done. Large-scale disasters have revealed that decision makers often struggle to identify or determine key components and interdependency relationships in infrastructure systems, optimal resource allocation to increase resilience or reduce risk, and optimal response plans. The Resilient Critical Infrastructure Symposium seeks to bridge the gaps among local, city and state entities, infrastructure owner-operators, federal agencies, and researchers to advance a productive discussion of tools, technologies, and policies for improving critical infrastructure resilience.

Communities: Communities provide the fabric that integrates the provision of our individual needs and support networks. Connections between individuals and groups serve as critical drivers for bouncing back from shocks, including damaging storms and other catastrophic events. Therefore, the role of social networks and cohesion is important in organizational and community resilience. It is also important that as we see increased magnitude and impact of events, consideration of planning and policies that reflect availability and distribution of key resources be in place that will make communities and populations more resilient to large-scale disruptions.

STUDENT COMPETITION
Submission Due: June 15
Acceptance Notification: July 9

Resilience Week is pleased to announce its third annual Student Competition. Applicants must submit an extended abstract (whitepaper) by the deadline June 4, 2018. Participation is restricted to original research by undergraduate or graduate students. Each student presents a lightning talk and a poster at the symposium. A panel of judges--representing industry, government, and academia--will determine a best presentation award to be given at the symposium.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair

• Craig Rieger, Idaho National Laboratory

Organizing Chair

• Jodi Grgich, Idaho National Laboratory

Infrastructures and Communities

• David Alderson, Naval Postgraduate School
• Cherrie Black, Idaho National Laboratory
• Kathleen Tierney, University of Colorado
• Jeff Baumgartner, Department of Energy

Refer to the Resilience Week website for the latest information. We look forward to seeing you in Denver!