Program
Thursday, September 28
9:00am-9:30am Reception 9:30am-9:35am Welcoming Remarks 9:40am-10:15am Crime, Punishment and Organization Structure Heski Bar-Isaac, New York University 10:15am-10:25am Break 10:25am-11:00am A Review of Statistical Models for Networks, with a Focus on Imputation Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University 11:00am-11:10am Break 11:10am-11:55am Small World Constraints on Terrorism Planning Gordon Woo, Risk Management Solutions 11:55am-1:00pm Catered Lunch 1:00pm-1:35pm Universal Patterns Underlying Ongoing Wars and Terrorism Michael Spagat, University of London, United Kingdom 1:35pm-1:45pm Break 1:45pm-2:20pm A Brinkmanship Game Theory Model of Terrorism Francois Melese and Diana Angelis, Naval Postgraduate School 2:20pm-2:30pm Break 2:30pm-3:05pm Terrorist Signaling and the Value of Intelligence Daniel G. Arce, Rhodes College 3:05pm-3:25pm Snack Break 3:25pm-4:00pm Optimum Thresholds of Sensors for Container Inspection Systems Hao Zhang, Christina Schroepfer, E. A. Elsayed and Fred Roberts, Rutgers University 4:00pm-4:10pm Break 4:10pm-4:45pm Improving the Risk-Scoring Algorithm of Marine Cargo Containers Richard Hoshino, Canada Border Services Agency 4:45pm-4:55pm Break 4:55pm-5:30pm The Use of System Decomposition and Dynamic Modeling to Examine the Growth and Formation of a Terrorist Organization Captain Jason E. Bartolomei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5:30pm-5:40pm Break 5:40pm-6:00pm Mathematics of Reaction-Diffusion Processes in Society Stephen Eubank, Virginia Tech
Friday, September 29
9:00am-9:15am Reception and Welcoming Remarks 9:15am-9:35am Informing the US National Security Policy-Making Process: The Role of Scientists and Technical Experts Benn Tannenbaum, American Association for the Advancement of Science 9:40am-10:10am Modeling Psychosocial Effects of Terror or Natural Disasters for Response Preparation Amy W. Ding, University of Illinois 10:10am-10:20am Break 10:20am-10:50am A Systems Analysis of the A. Q. Khan Network Captain William Skimmyhorn, United States Military Academy 10:50am-11:00am Break 11:00am-11:30am Large Scale Optimization Model for Optimizing Container Inspection Endre Boros, Rutgers University 11:30am-1:45pm Go out to Lunch + Networking 1:45pm-2:15pm Emerging Algebraic Combinatorial Intelligence Analysis Models and Methods for Countering Terrorism Joseph S. Oliveira, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 2:15pm-2:25pm Break 2:25pm-2:55pm Order Theoretical Analysis of Social Hierarchies Cliff Joslyn, Los Alamos National Laboratory 2:25pm-2:35pm Break 2:35pm-2:55pm Mathematically Modeling Terrorist Cells: Examining the Strength of Structures of Small Sizes Lauren McGough, Quincy, Massachusetts 2:55pm-3:05pm Break 3:05pm-3:35pm Detecting Hidden Hierarchy of Non-Hierarchical Terrorist Networks Nasrullah Memon, Software Intelligence Security Research Center, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark 3:35pm-3:45pm Break 3:45pm-4:15pm Cascading Dynamics in Networks with Community Structure Aram Galstyan and Paul R. Cohen, University of Southern California 4:15pm-4:35pm Snack Break 4:35pm-5:05pm Collapse of States and Sub-state Societies William Basener, Rochester Institute of Technology 5:05pm-5:15pm Break 5:15pm-5:30pm Models of Rumor Transmission over Random and Small World Networks Deana B. Olles, Rochester Institute of Technology 5:30pm-5:35pm Break 5:35pm-5:50pm Modeling the Flow of Traffic to Relief Stations after a Terrorist Attack Matthew Heman, Rochester Institute of Technology
Saturday, September 30
9:00am-9:15am Reception and Welcoming Remarks 9:15am-9:40am Using Simulation and Interactive Software to Introduce Schoolchildren to the Mathematical Modeling of Bioterror Attacks James M. Rubillo, Executive Director, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 9:40am-9:50am Break 9:50am-10:25am Discovery and Diffusion of Knowledge in an Endogenous Social Network Myong-Hun Chang, Cleveland State University 10:25am-10:35am Break 10:35am-11:20am Allocating Resources to Defend against Terrorist Attacks with Private Information about Vulnerability Robert Powell, University of California, Berkeley 11:20am-11:30am Break 11:30am-12:05pm Organizational Warfare: Analyzing and Preventing Asymmetric Threats Katya Drozdova, New York University & Hoover Institution, Stanford University 12:05pm-2:00pm Go out to Lunch + Networking 2:00pm-2:35pm A Hybrid KR&R/ Information Theoretic Model for Relationship Simplification Jafar Adibi, University of Southern California 2:35pm-2:45pm Break 2:45pm-3:10pm Building the Perfect Terrorist Cell Jonathan David Farley, Stanford University 3:10pm-3:20pm Snack Break 3:20pm-3:55pm Detection of Threat Activity across Domains James Ferry, Metron, Inc. 3:55pm-4:05pm Break 4:05pm-4:40pm Connecting Dots to Locate and Intercept Terrorist Operations and Operatives Martin J. Dudziak, TETRAD Technologies Group, Inc. 4:40pm-4:50pm Break 4:50pm-5:05pm The Cost and Impact of International Terrorism on the Economies of the United States and the European Union: 2001-2004 Inga Grote, Rochester Institute of Technology 5:05pm-5:15pm Break 5:15pm-5:50pm Gangs, Graphs, and Polynomials Vladimir Lefebvre, School of Social Sciences, University of California at Irvine