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Speaker Presentations
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Wednesday, March 19
Thursday, March 20
Student Abstracts & Posters
| Student | Organization | Title | |
| Adibhalta, Varun | The Pennsylvania State University, NEVAC | NeoCITIES Transactive Memory System for Geo-Collaboration in Emergency Crisis Management | |
| Agrawal, Ritesh | The Pennsylvania State University, RVAC | Capturing, Visualizing, and Sharing the Process of Data Analysis | |
| Anderson, David | Purdue University, RVAC | STL and Local Regression for Modeling Disease Surveillance Counts | |
| Bates, Bradley | Texas A&M University-Kingsville, FAZD Center, SRT | Establishing a Safe and Effective Model System for Evaluating the Rift Valley Fever Vector Competence of North American Mosquitoes | |
| Cowden, Kimberly | North Dakota State University, NCFPD | Perceptions of Risk and Crisis Communication Among Vulnerable Populations | |
| Culpen, Alison | New York University, CREATE | Infrastructure Needs of Vulnerable Populations in Catastrophes | |
| De Jesus-Velazquez, Noried | University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, SRT | Understanding Avian Influenza Virus: Infection, Pathogenicity and Prevalence | |
| Delgado, Amy | Texas A&M University, FAZD | Effects of Foreigh Animal Disease Outbreaks on United Kingdom Animal Health Policy: Implications for Emergency Response in the United States | |
| Do, Quang Xuan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, COE, IDS | New Search Paradigms to Facilitate Meaning based Information Retrieval | |
| Epkins, Heather | University of Maryland, START | How National Security Reporters Make Meaning of Terrorism Information Disseminated by the U.S. Government: An Extension of Mass Communication and Terrorism Theory | |
| Evrim, Vesile | University of Southern California, CKID, IDS |
Context Based Information Trust Analysis for Threat Detection | |
| Fahey, Susan | University of Maryland, START | A Further Exploration of State Fragility and Terrorism | |
| Frisk, Megan | University of Wisconsin-Madison, NCFPD | Microfluidic Sensor for Botulinum Neurotoxin | |
| Goldberg, Noam | Rutgers University, DyDAn, IDS | A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Enumeration of Efficient Container Inspection Strategies | |
| Hafen, Ryan | Purdue University, RVAC | Visualization Databases: Lossless Visualization of Large and Complex Data | |
| Hagerman, Amy | Texas A&M University, FAZD | Economic Impact Analysis of Foot and Mouth Disease in the Texas High Plains | |
| Haphuriwat, Naraphorn | University of Wisconsin-Madison, CREATE | How Many Containers to Inspect to Deter Terrorist Attacks | |
| Holmstrom, Lindsey | Texas A&M University, S&F | Parameterization of the Multi-Scale Epidemiologic/Economic Simulation and Analysis (MESA) Model of Classical Swine Fever Virus | |
| Hong, Tao | Drexel University, CAMRA | Analytical Equations Relating Aerosol Risk to Surface Concentrations | |
| Huang, Yin | Drexel University, CAMRA |
Incorporating Time Post Inoculation into a Dose Response Model of Y. pestis in Mice | |
| Kim, SungYe | Purdue University, PURVAC | Visual Analytics for Emergency Response and Training on Mobile Devices | |
| King-Smith, Deen | Purdue University, RVAC | Muscatatuck Urban Training Center | |
| Lee, Stuart | University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology, ENGLAND, START | Relationship Between Conventional Crime and Political Violence in Northern Ireland | |
| Maciejewski, Ross | Purdue University, RVAC | LAHVA: Linked Animal-Human Health Visual Analytics | |
| Matthews, Kelly | Texas A&M University, FAZD | Early Detection/Rapid Response to Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Diseases Through a County Animal Security and Health Network | |
| Mei, Qiaozhu | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IDS | Contextual Text Mining with Probabilitstic Topic Models | |
| Metzger, Michael | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CREATE | A Stochastic Decision Model for Hurricane Logistics, Preparedness, and Response | |
| Mitchell-Blackwood, Jade | Drexel University, CAMRA | A Hierarchical Model for Probabilistic Dose-Response Assessment of Bacillus anthracis | |
| Monge-Navarro, Francisco | Texas A&M University, FAZD | Development of Rapid and Inexpensive Diagnostic Kits for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Rift Valley Fever | |
| Namvar, Azadeh | University of Guelph, Ontario CANADA, NCFPD | Detection of Patulin Mycotoxin Using Molecular Imprinted Polypyrrole Modified Electrodes | |
| Opendi, Stella | North Dakota State University, NCFPD | Overconfidence in Crisis Messaging: A Case Study of Agency Misspeak During the Melamine Pet Crisis of 2007 | |
| Park, Seungkyung | Texas A&M University, NCFPD | Concentrating Bacterial Spores from Milk and Juices Using Dielectrophoresis Base Microfulidic Capture Systems | |
| Parr, Scott | Florida Atlantic University, PACER Scholarship | Evaluation of Emergency Evacuation Strategies for the Urban Chemical Disaster Federation | |
| Pellegrino, Don | Drexel University, NEVAC, RVAC | Automated Hypothesis Generation and Evaluation by Network Structure Content Analysis and Visualization | |
| Rosoff, Heather | University of Southern California,CREATE |
What Do We Know About Public Perception of Terrorism Risks? |
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| Sawyer, John | Georgetown University, START | When Terrorists Compete: The Marketplace of Violence | |
| Stryker, Michael | The Pennsylvania State University, RVAC |
Health GeoJunction: Tracking Infectious Disease Threats and Related Science | |
| Tamrakar, Sushil | Drexel University, CAMRA | Dose-Response Model for Burkholderia pseudomallei (Melioidosis) | |
| Turner, Milanika | Howard University, College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, PACER | Effects of Debriefing on Police Stress after a Crisis | |
| Weir, Mark | Drexel University, CAMRA | Quantification of the Effects of Age on the Dose Reponse of Vairola major in Suckling Mice | |
| Yamazaki, Kazutoshi | Princeton University, DyDAn, IDS | Asymptotic Theory of Sequential Change Detection and Identification | |
| Ziemkiewicz, Caroline | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, SRVAC | Global Terrorism Data Visualization |
Fact Sheets
For more information about each of the Centers, please follow the links below:
National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD)
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER)
National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (FAZD)
Student Abstract and Poster Guidance
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