Plenary Speakers Dr Jeff Kepert Associate Professor Hedwig Van Delden DEFRA, DFID and DTI

Plenary Speakers Dr Jeff Kepert Associate Professor Hedwig van Delden DEFRA, DFID and DTI. Paul is a Professor in the Environmental Bureau of Meteorology, Australia Research Institute for Knowledge Systems, Change Institute in Oxford University and is the programme Professor Graeme Dandy The Netherlands Title: The science and technology of forecasting severe weather director for the NERC Macronutrient Cycles. The NERC programme The University of Adelaide, Australia Title: Integrated modelling for policy support: lessons learnt is a £9 million programme aimed at understanding the interacting Bio: Jeff Kepert works in the Centre cycles of water, nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in river basins Title: The multiple roles of modelling in water resources and current challenges for Australian Weather and Climate from the mountains or uplands to estuary and coastal systems. planning and management Research (CAWCR) at the Bureau bio: Hedwig van Delden is the director Paul has published widely with over 90 papers in the refereed Bio: Graeme Dandy is Professor of Civil of Meteorology, which undertakes of the Research Institute for Knowledge literature as well as being guest speaker at a wide range of and Environmental Engineering at the research to improve scientific Systems (RIKS) in Maastricht, the conferences and meetings. 20th International Congress on University of Adelaide. He holds Bachelors understanding of, and the ability to Netherlands and adjunct associate Modelling and Simulation and Masters Degrees in Civil Engineering forecast, Australia’s climate and weather. professor at the University of Adelaide, 22nd National Conference of the Australian Operations Research Society (ASOR 2013) DSTO led Defence Operations Research Symposium (DORS 2013) from the University of Melbourne and a Jeff has also worked for the Bureau as Australia. Her main fields of research are Dr Alex Zelinsky Sponsors and participating PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of a forecaster and as an instructor. Jeff’s land use modelling, model integration, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Technology (USA). He is a Fellow of the research interests include tropical cyclone dynamics, bushfire bridging the science-policy gap and Australia organisations Australian Academy of Technological meteorology, air–sea exchange, boundary layers and turbulence, scenario development. Besides her Sciences and Engineering and a Fellow high-resolution wind prediction and data assimilation. He presently research, she manages and provides scientific leadership to Title: The challenges of modelling and simulation for Defence of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He has published widely leads the High Impact Weather Research team within CAWCR. national and international projects of various sizes that focus on and national security in the areas of water resources planning and management, Jeff has degrees from the University of Western Australia (pure the design, development and use of integrated models for policy bio: Dr Alex Zelinsky, D.Sc, B.Math optimisation of water supply and distribution systems and the use of mathematics and statistics) and Monash University (meteorology). support. In this capacity she has led among others the European (Hons), FIEEE, FTSE, FAICD, FIEA, is neural networks for forecasting water resources variables. research project LUMOCAP and the development of the DeSurvey Australia’s Chief Defence Scientist Dr Maja Schlüter Integrated Assessment Model. Her work has been published in and Chief Executive of the Defence Professor Jerzy Filar Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden several books and journals and widely presented at conferences. Science and Technology Organisation. Flinders University, Australia She is currently acting as an expert evaluator for the European Previously he was Group Executive Title: Embracing change – modeling for resilience thinking and Green Capital Award, organised by the European Commission. for Information Sciences at CSIRO. His Title: The power and limitations of mathematical models and ecosystem stewardship advisory roles include membership of Plato’s Cave Parable bio: Maja Schlüter is a researcher at Professor Paul Whitehead the Information Technology Industry bio: Jerzy Filar is a broadly trained Stockholm Resilience Centre studying University of Oxford, United Kingdom Innovation Council, the NSW Digital applied mathematician with research the co-evolution of social-ecological Economy Taskforce, the ARC Centre interests spanning a wide spectrum systems (SES) resulting from the Title: Adapting to climate change in freshwater ecosystems: for Vision Science and the Defence of both theoretical and applied topics interdependencies between actors, multiple modelling approaches to assess processes, dynamics Industry Innovation Board. Dr Zelinsky worked in robotics in Adapting to change: in Operations Research, Optimisation, institutions and ecosystems. She is and strategies Japan and later co-founded Seeing Machines, a high-technology Game Theory, Applied Probability and particularly interested in how the nature bio: Paul has over 35 years’ experience Australian start-up company that develops computer vision the multiple roles of modelling Environmental Modelling. Professor of their interactions affects the resilience of research on water resource, water systems. He has won numerous engineering and science awards Filar co-authored (with K. Vrieze) a and governance of SES. She has worked quality and pollution issues, and including the Clunies-Ross Science & Technology Award and research level text book Competitive on water issues in Central Asia and has a special interest in modelling, the Eureka Prize. He is an elected fellow of several professional 1– 6 December 2013 Markov Decision Process, published by fisheries in Mexico and Germany using including the development of dynamic, bodies and Vice President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Springer in 1996. He also authored empirical and modeling approaches. stochastic and planning models. Model Society-Industrial Activities. Dr Zelinsky has been a professor Adelaide, Australia or co-authored approximately 100 Maja has a background in ecology and applied system science applications include simulation of at the Australian National University and the University of refereed research papers. Professor Filar has an established and has conducted research on SES at the Helmholtz Centre catchments, rivers, lakes and reservoirs; Wollongong where he completed his PhD. Named a Technology record of research contracts/agreements with government for Environmental Research, Leipzig; Princeton University; and environmental impact assessment Pioneer (2003‑05) by the World Economic Forum, Dr Zelinsky was agencies and research institutes such NSF, ARC, US EPA, World the Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin. of effluent discharges, land use and Professional Engineer of the Year (Sydney Division) in 2009 and Resources Institute, DSTO and the Sir Keith and Sir Ross Smith She currently holds a starting grant of the European Research climate change, acid deposition and has been included in Engineers Australia’s list of the 100 most

u c Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of Environmental Modelling Council for modeling social-ecological systems. Aust MS n influential engineers since that year. I s t non-point source pollution. Paul has r y al et and Assessment and serves on editorial boards of Operations ia ci n M So successfully managed 47 projects with funding by NERC, EPSRC, athematical Research, JMAA and a number of other journals. Professor Filar is a ESRC, EU, EA and a range of Government Departments such as Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society. 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