BOARD ON MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES’ ROLE IN HOMELAND SECURITY

National Research Council

Georgetown Holiday Inn

Washington, D.C.

April 26-27, 2002

DAY 1: Friday, April 26^th

8:00-8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45 a.m.	Welcome and Overview of Sessions Peter Bickel Chair, Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley
8:45-9:15 a.m.	Keynote Address: Dr. Jane “Xan” Alexander (invited) Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
	Session One: Data Mining, Unsupervised Learning, and Pattern Recognition
9:15-9:25 a.m.	Introductions by Session Chair: Jim Schatz, National Security Agency
9:25-9:55 a.m.	Jerry Friedman, Stanford University
9:55-10:25 a.m.	Diane Lambert, Bell Laboratories
10:25-10:55 a.m.	Rakesh Agrawal, IBM-Almaden
10:55-11:10 a.m.	Break
	Review and Discussion
11:10-11:25 a.m.	Discussant #1: David McLaughlin, New York University
11:25-11:40 a.m.	Discussant #2: James Berger, Duke University (invited)
11:40-12:10 a.m.	Plenary Discussion
12:10-1:00 p.m.	Lunch
	Session Two: Detection and Epidemiology of Bio-terrorist Attacks
1:00-1:10 a.m.	Introductions by Session Chair, Claire Broome, Senior Advisor to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1:10-1:40 p.m.	Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School
1:40-2:10 p.m.	Stephen Eubank, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2:10-2:40 p.m.	Sally Blower, University of California at Los Angeles
	Review and Discussion
2:40-2:50 p.m.	Discussant #1: Simon Levin, Princeton University
2:50-3:00 p.m.	Discussant #2: Rick Durrett, Cornell University
3:00-3:30 p.m.	Plenary Discussion
3:30-3:50 p.m.	Break
	Session Three: Image Analysis and Voice Recognition
3:50-4:00 p.m.	Introductions by Session Chair: Roberta Lenczowski, Technical Director (Bethesda), National Imagery and Mapping Agency
4:00-4:30 p.m.	Jitendra Malik, University of California at Berkeley
4:30-5:00 p.m.	Ronald Coifman, Yale University
5:00-5:30 p.m.	Larry Rabiner, AT&T
	Review and Discussion
5:30-5:45 p.m.	Discussant #1: Stuart Geman, Brown University (invited)
5:45-6:00 p.m.	Discussant #2: David Donoho, Stanford University
6:00-7:30 p.m.	Reception

DAY 2: Saturday, April 27th

8:00-8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:20 a.m.	Plenary Discussion of Voice and Image Session and of other Friday sessions
	Session Four: Communications and Computer Security
9:20-9:30 a.m.	Introductions by Session Chair: Howard Schmidt Vice Chairman, Critical Infrastructure Board, Office of Homeland Security
9:30-10:00 a.m.	Dorothy Denning, Georgetown University
10:00-10:30 a.m.	Kevin McCurley, IBM Almaden
10:30-11:00 a.m.	David Wagner, University of California at Berkeley
11:00-11:15 a.m.	Break
	Review and Discussion
11:15-11:30 a.m.	Discussant #1: Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota
11:30-11:45 a.m.	Discussant #2: Michael Freedman, Microsoft Research
11:45-12:15 p.m.	Plenary Discussion
12:15-1:20 p.m.	Lunch
	Session Five: Data Integration/Fusion
1:20-1:30 p.m.	Introductions by Session Chair: Charles Holland, Office of DDR&E (invited)
1:30-2:00 p.m.	Todd Levitt, IET Inc.
2:00-2:30 p.m.	Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University
2:30-3:00 p.m.	Valen Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Review and Discussion
3:00-3:15 p.m.	Discussant #1: Art Dempster, Harvard University
3:13-3:30 p.m.	Discussant #2: Alberto Grunbaum, Univ. California at Berkeley
3:30-4:00 p.m.	Plenary Discussion
4:00 p.m.	Adjourn

Funding for this workshop, its videotaping, and resulting report is expected from the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft Corporation, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Office, and the Department of Energy.