QMDNS Meeting - May 21, 2008

SCHEDULE
BALLROOM 102	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 (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 Title: 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