Rutgers University Symposium on Homeland Security Research

September 23, 2003
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizer:
Fred Roberts, Chair, RUHSRI and Director, DIMACS, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Program Committee:
Margaret Brennan, Chair, Cook College
Nabil Adam, CIMIC
Stanley Dunn, SOE
Richard Mammone, CAIP
Robert Snyder, EOHSI
Presented by Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative (RUHSRI).

Workshop Program:


 8:00 -  9:00	Registration/Continental Breakfast

 9:00 -  9:15	Welcoming Remarks:
		Fred Roberts, Chair, DIMACS/RUHSRI
                Michael Breton, Associate Vice President for Research
		Philip Furmanski, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

 9:15 - 10:15	Panel Presentations: Projects to Protect Critical Infrastructure

                Home Land Security Research at CIMIC
                Nabil Adam and Vijay Atluri, CIMIC

                Security and Safety of our Critical Infrastructure
                Ali Maher and Hani Nassif, Civil and Environmental Engineering

                ZnO-based Multifunctional and Tunable Sensors
                Yicheng Lu, Electrical and Computer Engineering

                Economics and Agroterrorism
                Calum Turvey, Food Policy Institute

                Food, Agriculture and Environmental Security
                Rose Puelle, Department of Entomology

10:15 - 10:35	Break

10:35 - 11:35	Panel Presentations:  Projects in Surveillance/Detection/Monitoring I

                Deception, Digitization, and Counter-terror
                Mark Frank, SCILS

                The DIMACS Working Group on Adverse Event and Disease Surveillance
                David Madigan, Statistics

                Enhancing the Performance of Face Recognition Systems
                Christine Podilchuk, CAIP

                Embedding Methods for Massive Data Sets and Their Applications
                S. Muthukrishnan, Computer Science

                Homeland Security Research at DIMACS: Monitoring Message Streams
                and other Projects
                Fred Roberts, DIMACS
               

11:45 - 12:45	Lunch and Technology Demonstration
Information wall technology for crisis management of a biological or chemical weapon attack Brian Buckley, Paul Lioy, Robert Snyder, EOHSI (Runs for 15 minutes and will be repeated regularly during the lunch hour) 12:45 - 1:45 Panel Presentations: Projects in Surveillance/Detection/Monitoring II Development of a Dual-Use Over-The-Horizon Radar Network for Monitoring Ocean Currents and Ship Traffic in the Exclusive Economic Zone Scott Glenn, IMCS Research and Policy Development at the Rutgers Center for the Study of Public Security Leslie Kennedy, Center for Law and Justice New Challenges in Securing our Communication Infrastructure Wade Trappe, Electrical and Computer Engineering Recognizing People from Gait Dimitris Metaxas and Rong Zhang, Computer Science Warning and Indication Systems Rick Mammone, CAIP 1:45 - 2:45 Panel Presentations: Projects in Exposure and Response Bio/chem agent detection and decontamination technology Charles Cheung, Electrical and Computer Engineering Homeland Security Research at the EOHSI Center for Exposure and Risk Modeling (CERM) Panos Georgopoulos, EOHSI Rapidly deployable wireless networks for emergency communication and sensing applications Dipankar Raychaudhuri, WINLAB The New Jersey Weather and Climate Network: Harnessing Real-time Information for Homeland Security Dave Robinson, Geography Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease Preparedness at the Rutgers College of Nursing Felissa R. Lashley and Marie O'Toole, Rutgers College of Nursing 2:45 - 3:05 Break 3:05 - 4:05 Concurrent Discussion Groups: Protecting Critical Infrastructure I: DIMACS Conference Room, Room 431 Moderator: Nabil Adam Protecting Critical Infrastructure II: 1st Floor Lecture Hall Moderator: Margaret Brennan Surveillance/Detection/Monitoring I: CAIP Conference Room, Room 626 Moderator: Stan Dunn Surveillance/Detection/Monitoring II: DIMACS PC Lab #1, Room 448 Moderator: Rick Mammone Exposure and Response I: CAIP Conference Room, Room 726 Moderator: Paul Takhistov Exposure and Response II: DIMACS 4th Floor Foyer (outside Lounge, Room 401) Moderator: Brian Buckley 4:10 - 4:50 Reports from Discussion Groups 4:50 - 5:00 Closing Remarks: Fred Roberts 5:00 - 6:00 Networking Reception - Outside 1st Floor Lecture Hall

Poster Presentations:

Vijay Atluri, Kirk Barrett, Francisco Artigas, Soon Chun, Lubo Liu, CIMIC
Title: Secure Agency Interoperation for Effective Data Mining in Border Control and Homeland Security Applications

Vijay Atluri, Kirk Barrett, Francisco Artigas, Soon Chun, Lubo Liu, CIMIC
Title: End to End Early Warning Decision Support System for Dinking Water Safety and Security

Vijay Atluri, Kirk Barrett, Francisco Artigas, Soon Chun, Lubo Liu, CIMIC
Title: Interconnected Municipal Information for Home Land Security

Ahmed Elgammal, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University
Title: Realtime Visual Surveillance and Human Motion Analysis

Scott Glenn, IMCS, Rutgers University
Title: Development of a Dual-Use Over-The-Horizon Radar Network for Monitoring Ocean Currents and Ship Traffic in the Exclusive Economic Zone

Amy Marie Keller, Sinuk Kang, Belida Uckun, Maggie Herbasz, SCILS, Rutgers University
Title: Microexpression Recognition: Training Coast Guard Senior Investigators and Other Populations

Aparna Krishnamoorthy, Anand Doshi, Robert Utama, , CAIP, Rutgers University
Title: Enhancing the Performance of Face Recognition Systems

Felissa R. Lashley and Marie O'Toole, Rutgers College of Nursing
Title: Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease Preparedness at the Rutgers College of Nursing

Chada Ruengruglikit, Ho-Cheol Kim and Qingrong Huang, Department of Food Science and IBM Almaden Research Center
Title: Fabrication of nanoporous array for biosensor application

Mona Sheikh, Ari Genauer, Robert Brangan, and Chia Wei Lee, School Of Engineering, Rutgers University
Title: Sensory Networks for Early Detection of Bio-Chemical Agents


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