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May 1, 2008: New Workshop announced:
DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop: Internet Privacy: Facilitating Seamless Data Movement with Appropriate Controls to be held September 18 - 19, 2008 at the DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.
April 23, 2008: New Workshop announced:
DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop on Network Models of Biological and Social Contagion to be held November 3 - 5, 2008 at the DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.
March 21, 2008: New Module announced:
New Module 08-1, Linkages as Applied to Protein Folding, by James D. Factor, Marquette University and Hieu D. Nguyen, Rowan University listed on the Modules page.
January 31, 2008: New Workshop announced:
DIMACS Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology to be held August 21 - 22, 2008 at the DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.
December 20, 2007: New Workshop announced:
DIMACS Workshop on Models/Methodological Problems of Botanical Epidemiology to be held October 27 - 29, 2008 at the DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.
December 17, 2007: New Workshop announced:
DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop on Internet Tomography to be held May 14 - 16, 2008 at the DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.
December 13, 2007: New Workshop announced:
DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop on on Disease Clusters to be held May 6 - 8, 2008 at the DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.
November 29, 2007: New Workshop announced:
DIMACS Workshop in Honor of Bob Tarjan's 60th Birthday to be held May 9, 2008 at Princeton University.
November 8, 2007: DyDAn Graduate Fellowship Program Announced:
DyDAn is offering fellowships to pursue graduate studies at Rutgers University in fields that are relevant to homeland security. See information on the DyDAn Graduate Fellowship Program Webpage.
September 14, 2007: 2008-2009 DIMACS Postdoctoral Fellowships Announced:
DIMACS Postdoctoral Fellowships.
September 10, 2007: New Module announced:
New Module 07-3 Using Population Models in the Teaching of Eigenvalues by John Boardman, Franklin College, Dan Hrozencik, Chicago State University, Miyeon Kwon, University of Wisconsin, Irfan Ul-Haq, University of Wisconsin, and Aklilu Zeleke, Michigan State University listed on the Modules page.
August 24, 2007: New Module announced:
New Module 07-2 Rehabilitating after a Forest Fire Voronoi Diagrams and Scheduling Algorithms by C. Livingston, Bemidji State University and S. Hodgins, Starkville Academy listed on the Modules page.
March 2, 2007: Rebecca Wright to become Deputy Director of DIMACS:
Professor Rebecca Wright has agreed to join the Rutgers Computer Science Department and become Deputy Director of DIMACS, effective September 2007. We are all delighted to welcome Rebecca to the leadership of the center.
Please visit the website for The Center for Dynamic Data Analaysis (DyDAn) - a new DHS Center of Excellence: http://www.dydan.rutgers.edu/
January 12, 2007: New Module announced:
New Module 07-1 Art Gallery Theorems and Triangulations by T. S. Michael, United States Naval Academy, and Val Pinciu, Southern Connecticut State University listed on the Modules page.
August 15, 2006: 2007-2008 DIMACS Postdoctoral Fellowships Announced:
DIMACS Postdoctoral Fellowships.
July 25, 2006: Rutgers/DIMACS named by Department of Homeland Security to coordinate a national research consortium.

HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS $3 MILLION TO RUTGERS-LED RESEARCH CONSORTIUM
Rutgers to coordinate four DHS-funded research centers for advanced information analysis and computational technologies to protect nation
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a $3 million grant to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to lead a consortium researching advanced information analysis and computational technologies to protect the nation.
Rutgers will also coordinate a team of four university-based centers, with others based at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Pittsburgh. DHS will award a combined total of $10.2 million over three years to Rutgers and these institutions. All four centers will advance efforts to identify common patterns from numerous sources of information, which could indicate potential threats to the nation.
"We are proud of the receipt of this award," said Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick. "It adds strength to Rutgers' ongoing commitment to research in the area of security, which is so important to our nation and particularly to the citizens of our state."
Leading the Rutgers effort is the university's Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). It will include partner researchers from AT&T Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Texas Southern University. This group will develop computing technologies that find patterns and relationships in data, such as news stories, open-source web logs, and other accessible information, to quickly identify emerging indicators of possible terrorist activity, and rate the consistency and reliability of the sources. Such information could give officials more lead time to investigate and potentially thwart terrorist plans.
"The challenge involved in this endeavor is not only the massive amount of information out there, but also how quickly it flows and how fast the sources of information change," said Fred Roberts, director of DIMACS. "We will develop real-time streaming algorithms to find patterns and relationships in communications, such as among writers who may be hiding their identities, and to rate information sources for their reliability and trustworthiness."
The Rutgers center will undertake nine research projects in its first year and will also create educational programs around the technology it develops, such as courses and certificate programs for undergraduate and

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