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2005
Program on
National Defense and Homeland Security (NDHS)
Kickoff Workshop and Tutorials
September 11-14, 2005
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Opening Workshop for the SAMSI program on National Defense and Homeland Security (NDHS) will be held Monday-Wednesday, September 12-14, 2005, at the Radisson Hotel RTP in Research Triangle Park, NC. It will be preceded, on Sunday, September 11, by tutorials on topics associated with potential working groups in the program, such as biosurveillance and data streams, data integration and data quality in massive databases.
The goal of the opening workshop is to allow community input to formation of the working groups for the program, as well as promote engagement (via web, teleconference, ...) of those who will not be resident at SAMSI during the program. The workshop program will focus heavily on problems in NDHS for which solutions are not currently available.
REGISTRATION
The workshop is open to applied mathematicians, statisticians, economists, and related fields, with interest in or research focus in NDHS. Young researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in the early stages of their careers) and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Registration information, including requests for financial support, should be submitted as soon as possible. ON-LINE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. The registration deadline is AUGUST 18, 2005. In order to ensure your registration is correct, we ask that you:
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type in your information (cutting and pasting will distort the information we receive)
make any clarifications/corrections, in the Special Requests section
click the submit button only once
Please make reservations at the Radisson as soon as possible. The SAMSI room block for the Radisson is effective until August 20, 2005. After this date, there is no guarantee a room will be available. If you have a change in plans, individual room reservations must be cancelled 72 hours prior to arrival. Check-in is at 3:00 PM; check-out is 12:00 noon.
As it is difficult to control the temperature in the large conference rooms, we suggest you bring a light jacket or sweater with you.
SCHEDULE
Sunday,
September 11, 2005 Overview Tutorials |
|
| 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 1:00 PM | James Filliben, NIST, "The Collapse of the World Trade Center" |
| 2:00 PM | Break |
| 2:30 PM | Richard Larson, MIT, "New OR Models for Homeland Security" |
| 3:30 PM | Break |
| 4:00 | Stephen Fienberg, CMU, "Privacy and Confidentiality in a Homeland Security Context" |
| 5:00 PM | Adjourn |
Monday,
September 12, 2005 |
|
| 8:30-9:00 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome
and Introductions Jim Berger, SAMSI Alan F. Karr, NISS and SAMSI Lawrence Cox, National Center for Health Statistics Nell Sedransk, NISS |
| 9:30 AM | Edward Wegman, George Mason, TBA |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | Nancy Spruill, Dept. of Defense, TBA |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | New Researchers Session
(15 minutes each) |
| 2:45 PM | Break |
| 3:00 | Panel on Risk Vicki Bier, University of Wisconsin, "Game-Theoretic Methods in National Defense and Homeland Security" Barrett Slenning, NCSU Rick Picard, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 4:30 - 5:00 PM | Poster Sales Talks |
| 6:30-8:00 | Poster Session and Reception at NISS/SAMSI Building (+) |
Tuesday,
September 13, 2005 |
|
| 8:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Detlof von Winterfeldt, University of Southern California, TBA |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM | Panel on Syndromic Surveillance |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 PM | Panel on Cybersecurity Mike Gallaher, RTI Roy Maxion, Carnegie Mellon University David Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center, "Some Statistical Applications in Computer and Network Security" |
| 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:30-5:00 PM | Birds of a Feather Sessions |
Wednesday,
September 14, 2005 |
|
| 8:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | David Madigan, Rutgers University, TBA |
| 9:45 AM | Hugh Chipman, Acadia University, and Shirley Mills, Carleton University, "Pattern Discovery in Massive Social Networks" |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | Panel on New Applications Jerome Reiter, Duke Dale Anderson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Myron Katzoff, NCHS |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | Reports from Birds of a Feather Sessions; Discussion |
| 2:30 PM | Working Group Meetings |
(+) SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. Posters may not be taped to the walls or blackboards.
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