SCHEDULE
Abstracts (pdf file)
9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker - Peter Feaver
Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and former Director of Defense Policy on the National Security Council at the White House
Working as an Academic Social Scientist on the NSC at the White House
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20-11:20 Session: Text Mining
Jeff Solka, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Some Reflections on the Mechanisms of Latent Semantic Indexing and ItsPotential Role in Automated Discovery
Calandra Tate, US Army Research Laboratory/US Military Academy
Statistical Applications in Machine Translation Evaluation
11:20-12:20
Session: Mine Detection
Kyle Bradbury, ECE, Duke University
(co-authors: Peter Torrione and Leslie Collins)
Ground Tracking in Ground Penetrating Radar
Peter Torrione, ECE, Duke University
(co-author: Leslie Collins)
Application of Markov Random Fields to Landmine Discrimination in Ground Penetrating Radar Data
Chris Ratto, ECE, Duke University
(co-authors: Peter Torrione and Leslie Collins)
Context-Dependent Feature Selection for Classification of Simulated Ground-Penetrating Radar Data
12:20-1:10 Lunch
1:10-2:40 Session: Biosurveillance
Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International
Epidemic Models and Public Policy
Ron Fricker, Naval Postgraduate School
Optimizing a System of Threshold-based Sensors with Application to Biosurveillance
Myron Katzoff, National Center for Health Statistics
Two Problems Related to Biosurveillance
2:40-3:40 Session: Network Models
Michael Last, Department of Defense
Social Network Analysis for National Security
Dave Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Identifying Aliases in Graphs
3:40-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Session: Classification Methods in National Defense
Aparna Huzurbazar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Incorporating System Reliability Estimates into Prognostics and Health Management (PHM)
David Siroky, Duke University
Random Forest Analysis of Secessionist Movements
5:00-5:30 Closing Reflections
David Schanzer, Director, Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security