DIMACS Working Group on Applications of Order Theory to Homeland Defense and Computer Security

September 30, 2004
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Jonathan Farley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Anthony A. Harkin, Harvard University, harkin@deas.harvard.edu

Mel Janowitz, DIMACS / Rutgers University, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Stefan Schmidt, Physical Science Laboratory, schmidt@psl.nmsu.edu

Program:

Thursday, September 30, 2004

 8:15 -  8:50 Breakfast and Registration - CoRE Bldg., 4th Floor

 8:50 -  9:00 Welcoming Remarks
              Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director and Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director

 9:00 -  9:45 Cryptographic Techniques to Enforce an Information Flow Policy
              Jason Crampton, University of London

 9:50 - 10:30 Modeling a Moral Choice 
              Vladimir A. Lefebvre, University of California, Irvine

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:45 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Manipulation
              Stefan Schmidt, New Mexico State University & Phoenix Mathematical Systems Modeling, Inc. 

11:50 - 12:35 Modeling and Simulating Terrorist Recruitment via Reflexive Theory
              Stefan Schmidt, New Mexico State University & Phoenix Mathematical Systems Modeling, Inc. 

12:35 -  2:00 Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00 Discussion: An Institute for Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism? Where We Go From Here

 3:00pm       End of Workshop

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