Confirmed Speakers are:

Keynote Speaker: Peter Feaver, Duke University

Kyle Bradbury, Duke University
Eric Fails, Duke University
Ron Fricker, Naval Postgraduate School
Aparna Huzurbazar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Myron Katzoff, National Center for Health Statistics
Michael Last, U.S. Government
Dave Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Sinjini Mitra, University of Southern California ISI
Chris Ratto, Duke University
David Schanzer, Director of the Center on Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
David Siroky, Duke University
Jeff Solka, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Calandra Tate, US Army Research Laboratory/US Military Academy

 

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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 Its Potential 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 Eric Fails, ECE, Duke University Chris Ratto, ECE, Duke University
12:20-1:40	Lunch
1:40-2:40	Session: Biosurveillance Ron Fricker, Naval Postgraduate School Optimizing Biosurveillance Systems Myron Katzoff, National Center for Health Statistics Two Problems Related to Biosurveillance
2:40-3:40	Session Title: TBD Aparna Huzurbazar, Los Alamos National Laboratory Incorporating System Reliability Estimates into Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) 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 Michael Last, U.S. Government Social Network Analysis for National Security 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

 

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