33rd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology – ISSST 2026
June 16 - 18, 2026 | Rochester, NY
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 7:00am - 8:00am |
ISSST Planning Meeting I |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast II |
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| 8:30am - 9:30am |
CST1: Fairness in Sustainability Uncovering the Hidden Burden of U.S. Construction: A High-Resolution Assessment of Environmental and Health Impacts 8:44am - 8:58am Recommendations for Establishing Fair Environmental Attribute Certificate Markets for Direct and Indirect Commodities 8:58am - 9:12am Embed fairness throughout sustainability applications: How to address machine learning unfairness and bias 9:12am - 9:26am A geographically scalable, artificial intelligence and physics-based framework to minimize water, electricity and greenhouse gas impact of cooling data centers |
Local Showcase: RIT Golisano Institute for Sustainability Tour |
Special Session II: Future Directions in LCA of Emerging Technologies Future directions in LCA of Emerging Technologies - A working group update and discussion |
| 9:30am - 9:45am |
Transition IIII-1 |
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| 9:45am - 11:05am |
ITM4: LCA & Emergent Tech II Life Cycle Assessment of Lignin-Derived Polyurethane Foams for High-Performance Insulation Parametric LCA of coupled hydrothermal and anaerobic digestion systems for organic waste valorization Tensor-Based Integration of Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Assessment for Synthetic Graphite Production Linking Battery Recycling and Steel Decarbonization: Life Cycle Environmental and Techno-economic Analysis of Cathode-Derived Stainless Steel |
Local Showcase (Con't): RIT Golisano Institute for Sustainability Tour |
SRE7: Industrial Energy Use Assessing the viability of the hub business model to enhance the viability of direct air capture Technological Change in Steel Production: An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change, Air Quality, and Distributional Impacts Demand-Side Challenges and Pathways for Scaling Green Hydrogen Modeling production costs and grid interactions of hydrogen-based electrified steel production in the U.S. |
| 11:05am - 11:15am |
Transition IIII-2 |
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| 11:15am - 12:30pm |
Keynote 3: Dr. John Robinson John Robinson is a Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, where he is Co-Chair of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability. |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch & Student Awards |
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| 1:45pm - 2:45pm |
ISSST Planning Meeting II |
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| 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
Technical Workshop 1: A Region-specific LCA Tool for Assessing Carbon Storing Materials (TACSMA): Bridging Sustainable Forest Management and Climate-Forward Design Poulami Karan, Obste Therasme This workshop aims to introduce participants to the structure, logic, and application of TACSMA. |
Technical Workshop 2: Code-based life cycle assessment at NREL: introduction to LiAISON, CE ABM, and other tools. Code-based life cycle assessment at NREL: introduction to LiAISON, CE ABM, and other tools. |
Technical Workshop 3: Quantum Optimization for Recycling Networks: Advancing Circular Economy Through Quantum Computing Rythwik Salhotra Participants will gain hands-on experience formulating recycling network optimization problems as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) models suitable for quantum annealers. |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Social Events II |
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