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2005 Program on National Defense and Homeland Security (NDHS)
Kickoff Tutorials & Workshops
September 11-14, 2005
General Information
Registration
Tentative Schedule
General Information
The
Opening Workshop for the SAMSI program on National Defense and Homeland Security
(NDHS) will be held Sunday-Wednesday, September 11-14, 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.
The workshop is open to applied mathematicians,
statisticians, economists, and related fields, with interest in or research
focus in NDHS. New
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 25,
2005. In order to ensure your registration is correct, we ask
that you:
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refresh/reload the registration page to
ensure you have all updates
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type in your information (cutting and pasting
will distort the information we receive)
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make any clarifications/corrections, in the
Special Requests section
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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.
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
Schedule
Sunday,
September 11, 2005
Overview Tutorials
Radisson Hotel, Room H, 3rd Floor |
| 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 |
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| 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,
"Automated Metadata" |
| 10:30 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM |
Nancy Spruill, Dept. of Defense,
"Statistics Can Count in National Security" |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:00 PM |
New Researchers Session
(15 minutes each)
Michael Porter, UVA, "Using High Dimensional Geographic
Feature Space and Classification Trees in the Detection of Changes in
Criminal Point Processes"
Yasmin Said, George Mason University, "Agent-based Model Applicable to Homeland Security and Disease Control"
J.T. Rigsby, Naval Surface Warfare Center, "Co-clustering of Social Networks"
Lara Schmidt, Rand, "Timing & Synchronization: The Statistics that Facilitate this Defense Enabler"
Ryan Gill,University of Louisville, "Estimation of New Epidemic Trends Using a Poisson Gradual Change Model"
Others TBA |
| 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, "Agricultural Disasters, Natural or Not: Risks and Readiness"
Rick Picard, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 4:30 - 5:00 PM |
Poster Sales Talks |
| 6:30-8:30 |
Poster Session and Reception at NISS/SAMSI
Building (+)
For Presenters, a shuttle will leave the Radisson Hotel at 5:30 p.m. to bring you to SAMSI in order to setup your posters. If you miss this shuttle, please see someone at the front desk to request the Radisson Shuttle. All Presenters should be at SAMSI no later than 6:00 p.m. to ensure enough time for setup.
For all other participants, continuous shuttle service between the Radisson and SAMSI will be provided. The first shuttle will leave the Radisson at 6:25 p.m. and the last shuttle departs from SAMSI at 8:30 p.m.
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| 8:30 AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM |
Detlof von Winterfeldt, University
of Southern California, "Terrorism Risk Analysis" |
| 10:00 AM |
Break |
| 10:30 AM |
Panel on Syndromic Surveillance
Henry Rolka, CDC, "BioSense Overview and Statistical Research Needs"
Galit Shmueli, University of Maryland, "Wavelet-Based Monitoring for Modern Biosurveillance"
Greg Rempala, University of Louisville, "Joinpoint Logistic Regression Model for Monitoring Trends in Occurrence Data" |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 PM |
Panel on Cybersecurity
Mike Gallaher, RTI
Roy Maxion, Carnegie Mellon University, "Detecting Computer Masquerade Attacks"
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 |
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| 8:30 AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM |
David Madigan, Rutgers University,
"Statistical Approaches to Authorship Attribution" |
| 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, "Some Approaches and Challenges in Secure Statistical Analyses"
Dale Anderson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "The Human Sensor"
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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