Thursday, December 10, 2009
8:00 - 8:30 Coffee and Registration
8:30 - 8:35 Fred S. Roberts, Director, CCICADA: Welcome and Introductions of Guests
8:35 - 8:40 Philip Furmanski, Executive Vice President for Academic
Affairs, Rutgers University: Greetings
8:40 - 8:45 Bradley Buswell, Deputy Undersecretary, Science and Technology Directorate,
US Department of Homeland Security
8:45 - 8:50 Dr. Matt Clark, Director of DHS University Programs, US Department of Homeland Security
8:50 - 9:00 Dr. Joe Kielman, Director of Research Futures, Command,
Control, and Interoperability Division, US Department
of Homeland Security: The CCI Program
9:00 - 9:15 Fred Roberts: The CCICADA Program
9:15 - 9:25 David Ebert: Partner Program VACCINE
9:25 - 9:30 Ribbon Cutting
9:30 - 10:30 Panel One: Centers of Excellence Directors' Panel: Interactions Among the DHS University Centers of Excellence
Chair: Tamra Carpenter (Rutgers)
Panelists: Michael Bruno (CSR), Neville Clarke (FAZD), Steve Hora (CREATE),
Chris Kozub (Transportation Security Center), Rick Luettich (DIEM)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 Panel Two: Representatives of CCICADA Advisory Committee: Discussion of Trends in Data Analytics plus hopes for CCICADA
Chair: Dan Roth (UIUC)
Panelists: David Thurman, (PNNL), Ron Brachman (Yahoo!), Col. Richard Jaehne (UIUC), Elad Yoran (Security Growth Partners)
(other AC members serving on other panels will be invited to chime in: Clarke, Beecher, Harris)
11:40 - 12:20 Panel Three: Representatives of Partner Institutions: The Role of Academic Institutions in Homeland Security
Special Remarks: Richard McCormick, President, Rutgers University
Chair: Philip Furmanski, Executive VP for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University
Panelists: Florence Bonner (Howard U.), Julie Chen (UMass-Lowell),
Steve Hora (USC), Mildred Ofosu (Morgan State U.), Sunny Ohia (Texas Southern U.),
Wolf von Maltzahn (RPI), Luther Williams (Tuskegee Inst.), Letters from other Institutions
12:20 - 1:30 Lunch Break + Poster Session
1:30 - 1:35 Fred Roberts, Director of CCICADA: Introduction of Guests
1:35 - 1:40 Remarks by Richard Canas, Director of NJ Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness
1:40 - 1:45 Remarks by NJ State Assemblyman Fred Scalera, Chair of
Assembly Committee on Homeland Security and State Preparedness
1:45 - 1:50 Reading of Letters from Members of Congress
1:50 - 3:00 Panel Four - Stakeholders Panel (Representatives from Coast Guard, Naval Intel, FBI, NJ OHSP, etc.)
Chair: Al Wallace (RPI)
Panelists: Diana Beecher (Port Authority of NY/NJ),
Capt. Todd Gatlin (US Coast Guard), Philip Frigm (FBI Cybersquad), Dave Gruber (NJ Dept. of Health and
Senior Services), CDR Dave Harris (NMIC), Joe Picciano (NJ OHSP), Michael Washington (CDC)
3:00 - 3:05 Fred S. Roberts, Closing Remarks
3:05 - 4:15 Reception
Integrating and Summarizing Web Pages, Structured Information, and Maps for Strategic Analysis on Multiple Media Congxing Cai, University of Southern California Detection of Nuclear Materials in Shipment to U.S Xueying Chen, Rutgers University Design and Deployment of a Mobile Sensor Network for the Surveillance of Nuclear Materials in Metropolitan Areas Jerry Cheng, Rutgers University Recognizing, Tracking and Deduplicating events in News Quang Do, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Finding and Describing Objects in Broad Domains Ali Farhadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Higher Order Learning Cibin George, Rutgers University Dynamic Networks, Social Complexity, and Disease Risks Brad Greening, Rutgers University Advancing Visual Analytics Evaluation through Competitions Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Decision Making Using High Dimensional Observational Data Lauren Hannah, Princeton University Preposition Sense Disambiguation Using Linguistically Motivated Features Dirk Hovy, University of Southern California Simulating the Diffusion of Warnings Cindy Hui, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A Practical Differentially Private Random Decision Tree Classifier Geetha Jagannathan, Rutgers University Confidence-Based Techniques for Rapid and Robust Topic Identification of Conversational Telephone Speech Scott Kulp, Rutgers University Schrodinger's Cat and Epidemiological Modeling: Human behavior and the estimation of etiological parameters from reported outbreaks Nianpeng Li, Howard University Topic Models for Integrating and Analyzing Opinions in Blog Articles Yue Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emerging Epidemics in Virtual Worlds Eric Lofgren, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A Report on RNA Secondary Structure Prediction of the HIV-1 Molecule Using a Lattice Walk Approach: Are There National Security Implications? Helene Nguewou, Morgan State University An Optimal Learning Approach to Finding an Outbreak of a Disease Warren Scott, Princeton University Lexical entailment for Privacy Protection in Medical Records Eric Slone, Texas Southern University iTopicModel: Information Network-Integrated Topic Modeling Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DAPA-V10: Discovery and Analysis of Patterns and Anomalies in Volatile Time-Evolving Networks Brian Thompson, Rutgers University Predicting Spatio-Temporal Risks from Insecticide Resistance and Vector-borne Disease Threats Karen Wylie, Rutgers University
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