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
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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