PARVAC News and Events

2009-08-24 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-08-20 to 2009-12-31 - SASER 2010 with ISCRAM

SASER, conference on Safety and Security Education and Research 2010 will be held in Seattle May 3 – 5 in collaboration with the 7th Annual International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). You can find out more about SASER 2010 by clicking here.  If you're interested in submitting a paper at this conference which will be published in the conference proceedings, there is a list of tracks you can focus your paper towards. Please click here for the various track descriptions. If you're interested, please contact us for the layout and format instructions for the paper. 

2009-08-08 - ISCRAM 2010 Planning Meeting

2009-07-31 to 2009-08-31 - New ODNI grant

The UW Institute for National Security Education and Research (INSER) at the Information School, together with SASER partners, recently won a subcontractor role to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln as a partner on the "Great Plains - National Security Education Program" 5-year, $3 million grant.  Awarded by the ODNI IC Centers for Academic Excellence program, the Nebraska consortium will create and expand national security education and research opportunities across four Nebraska-based colleges and universities.  INSER will work with GP-NSEC team members to create a network among the more than 30 U.S. institutions of higher learning that are members in the CAE network. INSER received a similar grant in 2006.

2009-07-30 - SASER 2009 Summary

SASER 2009, conference on safety and security education and research in our region, was successfully completed on May 29th. Many thanks to the contributors and partners. To find out more about the conference, please click here.

2009-07-24 - ISCRAM 2010 Planning Meeting

2009-07-10 - Brown-Bag Wiley Research Team presentation

2009-07-08 -

2009-07-08 - SASER planning meeting

2009-07-07 - Seattle Port Commissioner meeting

2009-07-07 - Site Visit to Blaine

2009-07-02 - NCBSI Teleconference

2009-06-30 - Wiley Research Brownbag Lunch

2009-06-26 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-06-24 - Tamu / Purdue Proposal Telecon

2009-06-23 - WSU Team Meeting

2009-06-19 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-06-19 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-06-18 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-06-17 - PNNL-SQUIM meeting

2009-06-16 - Tamu / Purdue Proposal Telecon

2009-06-16 - Blaine Site Visit Conference Call

2009-06-12 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-06-12 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-06-10 - WSU Team Meeting

2009-06-05 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-06-05 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-05-29 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-05-29 to 2009-08-15 - Summer Research Group

DHS Summer Research Team Program: This program for minority serving institution brings Dr. Tracy Andrus and two undergraduate students from Wiley College to University of Washington to conduct a research on Border Security, Criminal Justice and Civil Security. This research group is currently in progress this summer 2009. If interested in getting more information or meeting the group, please feel free to contact us. Click here for more information about the Wiley Research Team. 

2009-05-28 to 2009-05-29 - 2nd Annual SASER Conference

2nd Annual Conference on Safety and Security Education and Research (SASER) is being held in conjunction with the 2009 Maritime and Port Security Summit: Resiliency Planning in a Difficult Economy. The summit will be held on May 28th and 29th at the Bell Harbor Conference Center, Seattle, WA. For more information about registration or agenda, please click here.

2009-05-28 - Maritime Summit - SASER meeting

For more information about the summit, please click here (Maritime & Port Security Home).

2009-05-15 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-05-13 - AMSC Meeting at JHOC

2009-05-13 - AMSC Project Meeting

2009-05-10 - ISCRAM Conference in Gottenburg, Sweden

International Community for information systems for crisis response and management (ISCRAM) is holding the ISCRAM Conference 2009 in Gottenburg, Sweden. For more information, please click here.

2009-05-08 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-05-08 to 2009-05-09 - Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies Conference

University of Washington's 15 annual Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies Conference will be held on June 8th, 2009, from 2:30pm to 6:30pm at the UW Seattle Campus, Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room (Room 225). For more information, please click here.

2009-05-04 - Weekly PARVAC Meeting

2009-05-01 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-05-01 - NCBSI Technology Demo

2009-04-30 - A Panel on Careers in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

The CSCMP Seattle Roundtable is presenting 'A Panel on Careers in Logistics and Supply Chain Management' on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 pm in the HUB at University of Washington Room 108. The event is offered at no charge to attendees-students and professionals are encouraged to attend.

2009-04-24 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-04-22 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-04-17 - AMSC & PARVAC Research Leadership Council

2009-04-17 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-04-15 - Visit from Keith Butler

Keith Butler is the former director of use experience at Microsoft.

2009-04-14 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-04-13 - HCDE Brown-Bag Meeting about NCBSI Project

A brown-bag meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room from 12PM to 1PM. It's open for everyone.

2009-04-10 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-04-10 - Meeting with Security Director of Port of Tacoma

PARVAC will be meeting with Eric Homdemman, who is the director of security, Port of Tacoma. The meeting will be at 2PM.

2009-04-07 - ISCRAM Meeting

For more information about ISCRAM, please click here (International Community on information systems for crisis response and management - ISCRAM)

2009-04-06 - Blain Sector Meeting

Ed McCormick will be meeting with Mark Zachery, Mark Haselkorn, and Dan Dailey in Sieg 420 at 1:30. It is open for everyone to attend.

2009-04-03 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-04-03 - Naval Post-Graduate Teleconference

2009-03-31 - Bruce Campbell's Publication Submission

Bruce Campbell submitted a publication paper on the topic "RimSim Visualization: An Interactive Tool for Post-event Sense Making of a First Response Effort." To view the paper, please click here.

2009-03-31 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-03-30 - Meeting with Veratect

2009-03-27 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-03-27 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-03-25 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-03-24 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-03-23 - PARVAC Coordination Meeting

2009-03-20 - Veratect Project meeting

2009-03-20 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-03-18 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-03-17 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-03-16 to 2009-03-19 - DHS University Programs Summit, Washington, D.C.

For more information on the summit, please visit click here (DHS University Programs Summit)

2009-03-13 - NCBSI Project Meeting

NCBSI project meeting will be held in the HCDE conference room every Friday in spring quarter.

2009-03-13 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-03-11 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-03-10 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-03-06 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-03-04 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-03-03 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-02-27 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-02-25 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-02-24 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-02-20 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-02-18 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-02-17 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-02-13 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-02-11 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-02-10 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-02-06 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-02-04 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-02-03 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-01-30 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-01-28 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-01-27 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-01-23 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-01-20 - Planning Meeting with APL

2009-01-20 - Suzanne Duran program manager meeting

2009-01-17 - MLK Day

2009-01-16 - Veratect Project Meeting

2009-01-15 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-01-14 - DHS-UP Director Conference Call

2009-01-13 - Nepal project telecon

2009-01-13 - Intelligence Communigty Postdoctoral Research Program Meeting

2009-01-12 - INSER-PARVAC planning meeting

2009-01-08 - Video tele-con with World Vision

2009-01-07 - Meeting at Port on resumption of trade grant proposal

2009-01-07 - Nepal project meeting

2009-01-05 - NCBSI kick-off meeting

2009-01-05 - SASER Conference Album

SASER Conference held on the 30th of October to the 1st of November was very successful. To look at the album from the conference, please click here.

2008-12-30 - Project Meeting - AMSC

2008-12-21 - Bruce Campbell's Abstract Acceptance

Bruce Campbell submitted an abstract about the agent-based simulation visualization work in terms of encoding personalities in software agents for the "Modeling and Simulation for Military Operations IV" conference which has been accepted. He is working on planning the agenda for his final paper and is very thrilled about his acceptance.

2008-12-19 - RVAC Teleconference

2008-12-17 - RIMSIM Meeting

2008-12-16 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-12-15 - Project Meeting - AMSC

2008-12-12 - RIMSIM Meeting

2008-12-10 - Project Development Meeting with Boeing Phantom Works

2008-12-09 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-12-09 - Meeting with APL

2008-12-05 - PARVAC and NCBSI Coordination Meeting

2008-12-04 - PARVAC and AMSC Planning Meeting at JHOC

2008-12-03 - DHS Site Visit at Purdue

2008-12-02 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-12-01 - Veratect Working Meeting

2008-11-25 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-11-24 - RIMSIM Meeting

2008-11-21 - RVAC Teleconference

2008-11-20 - Meeting with APL and University of Hawaii

2008-11-19 - INSER and PARVAC meeting

2008-11-18 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-11-18 - Port Security Project Meeting

2008-11-12 - AMSC Meeting at Sector Seattle

2008-11-12 to 2008-11-13 - Fall VAC Consortium Meeting

Richland, WA

The theme for the 2008 Fall Visual Analytics Centers (VAC) Consortium Meeting is Visual Analytics Beyond Borders.

2008-11-12 - RIMSIM Meeting

2008-11-11 - Veratect Meeting

2008-11-11 - NVAC University Day

PARVAC will join other RVACs at the NVAC to present and discuss recent research.

2008-11-07 - Mark Polyak to teach winter course at UW

Mark Polyak, Vice President for Situational Awareness, Veratect Corporation, will be teaching TC 598B: "Biological Situational Awareness, Decision Support and Information Sharing." The class will be offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30 - 6:20 PM in Loew 116. If you are interested to find out more about the course, please click here for the syllabus.

2008-11-05 - RIMSIM meeting

2008-11-04 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-10-31 - Students and Experts Networking Reception

5:30-7:30pm
Husky Union Building, Room 106B

Students, before you go to your Halloween parties, network and explore careers in national security with other students and experts. Come meet representatives from agencies such as:

• US Coast Guard
• Department of Homeland Security
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• US State Department
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Federal Bureau of Intelligence
• and more!

This event is hosted by INSER (Institute for National Security Education and Research).

2008-10-31 to 2008-11-21 - UWS2 and PARVAC featured on University of Washington Home Page

The newly formed University of Washington Interdisciplinary Committee on Safety and Security Research and Education has been recently featured on the UW website home page. The feature promoted the SASER conference and the Pacific Rim Visualization and Analytics Center. Click here to see the featured article.

2008-10-30 - Speaker Gary Klein kicks off SASER

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Dr. Gary Klein, Klein Associates, will be speaking in Kane Hall, room 210, from 7-9pm. Dr. Klein is a pioneer in the field of naturalistic decision-making, has written several books on the subject, and his decision model has influenced changes in the ways the Marines and Army train their officers to make decisions. On Thursday, October 30th, Dr. Klein will be discussing issues related to collaborative decision-making. For further information, please click here.

2008-10-30 to 2008-11-01 - Conference: SASER 2008

In collaboration with the Institute for National Security Education and Research (INSER), PARVAC is hosting a conference on Safety and Security Education and Research (SASER). The theme for this year's conference is: "Exploring a Regional Cooperation Framework." SASER will be held October 30th to November 1st on the University of Washington campus. Registration is required. For more information, please visit: the SASER 2008 website.

2008-10-29 - Project Meeting - RimSim Response!

2008-10-28 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-10-24 - RVAC Teleconference

2008-10-23 - TC 521 Lecture: The Role of Science, Technology and Research in the Intelligence Enterprise

A lecture by Dr. Timothy Thomas (Visiting Professor), 5:00-5:50 pm, Loew Hall rm 113

2008-10-22 - Project Meeting - RimSim Response!

2008-10-22 - Les Roberts Workshop on Impact Assessment

Wikipedia Listing: 

Les Roberts (epidemiologist) (b.1961 - ) was the first winner of the Center for Disease Control's Paul C. Schnitker Award for contributions to Global Health. He became prominent in the news just before the 2004 U.S. presidential election, for his study estimating that 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed in the Iraq war, at a time when official U.S. government estimates were much lower. In October 2006, an expanded followup study was released that gave a point estimate of 654,965 deaths having occurred, within a 95 percent confidence interval from 392,979 to 942,636. U.S. President George W. Bush dismissed the new study, saying the approach had been "pretty well discredited", without explaining how. However, numerous statisticians supported the study.^{[citation needed]}

Roberts is the lead author of the earlier 2004 study, co-authored with four others, and was the lead investigator in the field. The study, titled "Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey," was published in The Lancet, a prestigious peer-reviewed journal. See Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War for a detailed discussion. Those results have since been confirmed by a study released by the Iraqi government.^{[citation needed]} Roberts' first important contribution came from a study among refugees in Malawi conducted for the United Nations regarding the effects of narrow-necked water containers that showed most water contamination came from the hands of refugees. Since that study, narrow-necked water containers have become a standard component of humanitarian relief programs.

Roberts campaigned for office in 2006, running in the Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives seat of the 24th Congressional District in Chenango County, New York. He withdrew from the running on May 17 and endorsed the remaining Democratic candidate in the race, who was later elected.

Roberts was Director of Health Policy at the International Rescue Committee. In 1994 he worked in Rwanda for the World Health Organization^[1] , and performed a similar study to estimate the number of Rwandan refugees. In 2000, he performed a similar study which estimated 1.7 million deaths due to the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo [1]. This study met with widespread acceptance when published [2], and resulted and was cited in a U.N. Security Council resolution that all foreign armies must leave Congo, a United Nations request for $140 million in aid, and a pledge by the US State Department for an additional $10 million in aid.

In 2008, Roberts is an Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.^[1].

Roberts obtained a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1992 and has been a regular lecturer there. Roberts did post-graduate fellowship work with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. He obtained a master's degree in public health from Tulane University in 1986 and an undergraduate degree in physics at St. Lawrence University in 1983. He grew up in Onondaga, New York and graduated from Westhill Senior High School in 1979.

2008-10-21 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-10-20 - PARVAC Team Meeting

2008-10-16 to 2008-12-25 - PARVAC Leads New UW Safety and Security Research and Education Committee

The Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Washington has established the Interdisciplinary Committee on Safety and Security Research and Education (UWS2, for short). The chair of the Committee is Professor Mark Haselkorn, PARVAC Director. The Interdisciplinary Committee may conduct collaborative research and plans to establish a graduate certificate program in safety and security studies in the near future. You can see a recent article on this new committee here and view the official version of the establishment letter here.

2008-10-16 - TC 521 Lecture: Information and Communication for the Improvement of Non-Market Based Service

A lecture by Professor Haselkorn 5:00-5:50 pm, Loew Hall rm 113

2008-10-15 - Project Meeting - RimSim Response!

2008-10-15 - UWS2 Meeting

2008-10-14 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-10-10 - Meeting with CAPT Englebert

2008-10-08 - Project Meeting - RimSim Response!

2008-10-07 - Project Meetings - AMSC and Veratect

2008-10-06 - Meet with Amber Dempsey re NSA Challenge

2008-10-05 - Professor Haselkorn Presents at Frontiers in Service Conference

http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/frontiers2008/program/sunday.aspx

2008-10-03 - Prof. Haselkorn presents at DHS S&T

Prof. Mark Haselkorn, Director of Pacific Rim Visualization and Analytics Center, presented a brown bag talk for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) University Programs on October 3, 2008 in Washington, DC. The topic of the presentation was "Visual Analytics for Emergency Response: Process Improvement and Service Science." He discussed resilience and the enhancement of processes that increase resilience through improved understanding and use of data, information, knowledge, and communication.

2008-09-30 - AMSC Project Team Meeting

Weekly meeting of the research team working with the Area Maritime Security Committee on the project, "Enhancing Multi-institutional Collaborative Decision-making and Coordination for Regional Maritime Emergency Management."

10:30 - Noon  M306EEB

2008-09-29 - Humanitarian Global Logistics Conference Call

2008-09-26 - RVAC Teleconference

2008-09-25 - Regional Port Security Grant Program Meeting

2008-09-24 - Veratect Workshop

This Wednesday from 9 AM – 1 PM (working lunch) is the workshop at Veratect. Following is my guess of what the UW contingent will present.  Mark H: an overview on information and communication systems for minimizing disruption.  Dan C:  assessing risk of societal unrest.  Dan D:  data fusion.  Sara:  global value chain data and assessment of economic disruption.  Chris: assessing risk of WMD.  Matt: the Nepal GIS economic corridor project.

2008-09-23 - AMSC Project Team Meeting

Weekly meeting of the research team working with the Area Maritime Security Committee on the project, "Enhancing Multi-institutional Collaborative Decision-making and Coordination for Regional Maritime Emergency Management."

10:30 - Noon  M306EEB

2008-09-22 - PARVAC Meeting

Bi-weekly PARVAC Meeting

12:30 - 1:30 PM  LUTE Laboratory

2008-09-19 - Nepal Project Team Meeting

2008-09-18 - UWS2 Meeting

2008-09-18 - Veratect Project Meeting

Meeting of the research team working with Veratect on the project, "Development of Early Detection of Societal Disruption."

10:30 - Noon  Loew 310

2008-09-17 - Dr. Tim Thomas Arrives!

2008-09-16 - AMSC Project Team Meeting

Weekly meeting of the research team working with the Area Maritime Security Committee on the project, "Enhancing Multi-institutional Collaborative Decision-making and Coordination for Regional Maritime Emergency Management."

10:30 - Noon  M306EEB

2008-09-15 - Nepal Project Team Meeting

Meeting of research team working with Mercy Corps on project "A GIS Visual Analytic Tool for Mapping Economic Corridors in Nepal."

2008-09-12 - Veratect Project Meeting

Meeting of the research team working with Veratect on the project, "Development of Early Detection of Societal Disruption."

10:30 - Noon  Loew 310

2008-09-12 - Agora Meeting Presentation

Loraine Rohrback and Mark Haselkorn present at the Agora Meeting. Loraine will cover the background information on the 2008 IEEE VAST Challenge, then will discuss the process used by the UW/PARVAC team and some of the feedback received from the challenge judges. Mark will talk about how this challenge fits into the broader landscape of visual analytics studies at the University of Washington.

2008-09-11 - WVI Project Interview

Phone interview for the project with WVI on "Visual Analytics for Improved Global Humanitarian Logistics."

2008-09-10 - Area Maritime Security Committee Meeting

Present project update at the Area Maritime Security Committee Meeting.

2008-09-09 - Cyber Analytics Symposium

Present at and participate in Cyber Analytics Symposium sponsored by CIAC and PNNL.

2008-09-08 - EPA Meeting

Meeting at EPA on the AMSC project.

2008-09-08 - UWS2 Meeting

Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Faculty Group on Safety and Security Research.

2008-09-05 - IBM Videocon

Videoconference with IBM Almaden Research Center and San Jose State University on the project, "A Distributed Service Science Laboratory Network."

8:30 - 10 AM  LUTE Laboratory

2008-09-04 - Veratect Project Team Meeting

Meeting of the research team working with Veratect on the project, "Development of Early Detection of Societal Disruption."

10:30 - Noon  Loew 355

2008-09-02 - AMSC Project Team Meeting

Weekly meeting of the research team working with the Area Maritime Security Committee on the project, "Enhancing Multi-institutional Collaborative Decision-making and Coordination for Regional Maritime Emergency Management."

10:30 - Noon  M306EEB

2008-08-25 - PARVAC & Veratect

PARVAC has signed a research agreement with Veratect to work on systems for early detection of societal disruption. We'll be working with faculty from different departments, including the Jackson School of International Studies, Electrical Engineering, the School of Public Health, and Technical Communication. Work will include analytic processes and data visualization for risk assessment and strategic decision-making. For more information about Veratect, please visit: http://www.veratect.com/.

2008-08-25 - UW-IBM Service Science Initiative

PARVAC is collaborating and developing plans with the IBM Almaden Research Center and San Jose State University in California to establish a Service System Laboratory Network (SSLN). The main goals are to analyze and visualize distributed research collaborative methods and tools, such as component business modeling (CBM), and to conduct studies regarding service systems.