DIMACS/CCICADA/CAIT/USCG 2nd Annual Maritime Risk Symposium - Developing Public-Private Partnerships in Homeland Security:
How Risk Impacts Government Policy and Business Requirements

November 7 - 9, 2011
Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

Organizers:
Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Focus on Algorithmic Decision Theory, the DHS-supported Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA), the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Workshop Program:

Tuesday, November 7, 2011

 7:00 -  8:00  Continental breakfast and registration/badge pickup

 7:45          Arrival of USCG Air Station Atlantic City MH-65 helicopter for static display

 8:00 -  8:15  Opening Remarks by conference directors and directors of CCICADA/DIMACS and CAIT

 8:15 -  8:30  Opening Remarks by Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick

 8:30 -  9:15  Keynote Address: Admiral Thad Allen, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.),
               RAND Corporation

 9:15 - 10:30  Panel: Risk Assessment and Policy: Government Perspectives I

               Moderator: Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

               Owen Doherty, Director of Office of Security, Maritime Administration (MARAD), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
               Frank Wood, Strategic Risk Advisor, USCG (Risk Governance)
               Charles B. McKenna, Director, New Jersey Office of Homeland Security & Preparedness (State Government View)

10:30 - 10:45  Break

10:45 - 12:00  Panel: Risk vs. Business Requirements: Industry Perspectives I

               Moderator: Luke Ritter, Principal, Global Trade Security, Ridge Global LLC

               Scott Weiss, Vice President, Liberty International Underwriters, Houston, Texas
               Rodolfo Sabonge, Vice President of Market Research, Panama Canal Authority, Panama
               Capt. James DeSimone, Chief Operations Officer, Staten Island Ferry, New York City

12:00 - 1:30   Luncheon Speaker: Admiral Peter Neffenger, U.S. Coast Guard

 1:30 - 3:00   Bethann Rooney, Manager of Port Security, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ)
               Capt. Meredith Austin, Captain of the Port (COTP) Sector Delaware Bay, USCG
               Michael Buckheit, Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY)

 3:00 - 3:30   Break

 3:30 - 5:00   Panel: Public-Private Partnership II: Piracy

               Moderator: Jeffrey Robertson, Outreach Director, Homeland Security Institute (HSI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

               Capt. David Moskoff, Academic Dean, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
               Kim Hall, Analyst, HSI, DHS
               Charles Dragonette, Piracy Expert, U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)

 6:30          Evening Reception: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University

Wednesday, November 8, 2011

 8:30 -  9:15  Plenary Talk:  Stephen Flynn, President, Center for National Policy (CNP)

 9:15 - 10:30  Risk Assessment and Policy Making: Government Perspectives II

               Moderator: Bert Macesker, Executive Director, USCG Research and Development (R&D) Center

               Adele Fasano, Area Director, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
               Capt. Linda Fagan, COTP Sector New York, USCG
               Michele Siekerka, Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)

10:30 - 10:45  Break

10:45 - 12:00  Risk vs Business Requirements: Industry Perspectives II

               Moderator: Isaac Maya, Director of Research, National
	       Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism
	       Events (CREATE), University of Southern California (USC)

               Dave Newton, USCG (Ret.), Science and Technology Directorate, DHS
               Rob Gibbs, Development Manager, PSE&G  (Off Shore Wind Farms)
               RADM Gene Brooks, USCG (Ret.), Technical Organization Senior Director, Maersk Line Limited

12:00 -  1:30  Luncheon Speaker: Laurence Smallman, RAND Corporation

 1:30 -  3:00  Panel: International Perspectives

               Moderator: William Watson, Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs, Republic of the Marshall Islands

               Steve O'Malley, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) TC-8 Coordinator, Ship & Supply
	       Chain Security and Resiliency Standards
               Ken Hansen, Research Fellow, Dalhousie University, Canada
               Lt. Cmdr. Mark Sawyer, USCG liaison to World Maritime University, Sweden

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  5:00  Panel: Role of Intelligence

               Moderator: Capt. David Moskoff, Recent Assistant Academic Dean, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

               Michael Harpster, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Newark, NJ Office
               Capt. Tim Jordan, U.S. Naval Reserve
               Charles Dragonette, Piracy Expert, U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
               William Watson, Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs, Republic of the Marshall Islands


Thursday, November 9, 2011

               RESEARCH DAY   
 
 8:20 -  8:30  Welcoming Remarks by CCICADA Director Fred Roberts

 8:30 -  9:00  Keynote Address: Total Risk Management, Revisited, Robert G. Ross, Captain, USCG (Ret.), 
               Chief, Risk Sciences Branch, Science and Technology Directorate, DHS

               Resource Allocation

 9:00 -  9:20  Risk-Based Visual Analytics for Maritime Resource Allocation

               David Ebert, Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE), Purdue University

 9:20  - 9:40  ARMOR-PROTECT: An Application of Game Theory to the USCG's Ports, Waterways and Coastal Security  (PWCS) Mission

               Milind Tambe, Professor, CREATE, USC
               Bo An, Postdoctoral Research Associate, CREATE, USC
               Eric Shieh, PhD Candidate, CREATE, USC

 9:40 - 10:00  PortSec: Port Security Resource Allocation and Cost-Benefit Analysis

               Michael Orosz, Professor, CREATE, USC
               Isaac Maya, Director of Research, CREATE, USC

10:00 - 10:20  Sonar Placement in Ports and Waterways

               Amir Ghafoori, Ph.D. Student, CCICADA
               Tayfur Altiok, Professor, Rutgers' CAIT

10:20 - 10:40  Break

               Resilience

10:40 - 11:00  Developing a Resiliency Framework for Regional Freight Platforms

               Thomas Wakeman, Deputy Director, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology
               Hardik Gajjar, Research Assistant, The Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR), Stevens Institute of Technology
               Jose Ramirez-Marquez, Associate Professor, CSR, Stevens Institute of Technology
               Hady Salloum, Director, CSR, Stevens Institute of Technology

11:00 - 11:20  Resilience Modeling for Post Disaster Recovery of Interdependent Industries and 
               Infrastructures: Application to Inland Port Disasters

               Raghav Pant, Graduate Research Assistant, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma
               Kash Barker, Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma
               Thomas L. Landers, Dean, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma

11:20 - 11:40  Supporting Secure and Resilient Inland Waterways

               Heather Nachtmann, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas
               Justin R. Chimka, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas
               Edward A. Pohl, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas
               Tish "L.M." Pohl, Research Associate, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas
               Henry J. Mayer, Executive Director, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
               Jennifer Rovito, GIS Specialist, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University

11:40 - 12:00  Algorithmic Decision Theory and the Port Reopening Scheduling Problem

               Fred Roberts, Director, CCICADA

12:00 -  1:40  Lunch

               Risk and Ecomonic Analysis

 1:40 -  2:00  Interdependent, Multi-regional Impacts of Inoperability at Inland Waterway Ports

               Kash Barker, Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma
               Raghav Pant, Graduate Research Assistant, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma
               Hiba Baroud, Graduate Research Assistant, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma
               Thomas L. Landers, Dean, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma
             
 2:00 -  2:20  A Next-Generation Integrated Sensor and Data Fusion System for Force Health Protection and Homeland Security

               Kevin Montgomery, Lead Investigator, Center for Island, Maritime, and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES), University of Hawaii

 2:20 -  2:40  Quantitative Assessment of Supply Chain Risks

               Iris Heckmann, Research Scientist, Karlsruhe University, Germany

 2:40 -  3:00  Measuring Economic Risk Benefits of USCG Marine Safety Programs

               Adam Rose, Acting Director, Energy Institute, CREATE, USC
               Dan Wei, Research Assistant Professor, CREATE, USC

 3:00 -  3:20  Break

               Risk Analysis: Ports and Waterways

 3:20 -  3:40  Adversarial Risk Analysis: The Somali Pirates Case

               Jesus Rios, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
               David Rios Insua, Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain
               Juan Carlos Sevillano, Complutense University, Spain

 3:40 -  4:00  Maritime Traffic Modeling for Risk Assessment and Response Planning

               Ronald Pelot, Professor, Maritime Activity and Risk Investigation Network (MARIN), Dalhousie University
               Casey "R.C." Hilliard, Research Associate, MARIN, Dalhousie University

 4:00 -  4:20  U.S. Port Operational Risks and the Call for Port Resilience

               James Rice, Deputy Director, Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 4:20 -  4:40  Risk Analysis of the Maritime Traffic in Delaware River

               Alper Almaz, Ph.D. Student, CCICADA
               Tayfur Altiok, Professor, CAIT, Rutgers University


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