News Article/Event Archives From 2015
ALERT REU Final Research Presentations September 28, 2015
This summer, ALERT hosted 5 undergraduate students to participate in the 10-week REU program. At Northeastern University, two students worked with Prof. Carey Rappaport, one with Prof. Jose Martinez-Lorenzo, and one with John Beaty and Alyssa White. ALERT also hosted one REU at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez who did research with Prof. Samuel […]
Read MoreADSA13 Workshop Announcement September 28, 2015
The Thirteenth Advanced Development for Security Applications Workshop (ADSA13) will be held on October 28th and 29th at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The focus of this workshop will be a continuation of the ADSA12, and is titled, “Screening of Personnel and Divested Items at the Checkpoint – Part II.” The workshop is being convened by […]
Read MoreTESSA02 Workshop a Success! September 28, 2015
ALERT hosted the 2nd Annual “Trace Explosives Sampling for Security Applications” (TESSA02) Workshop on August 5, 2015 at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. The TESSA01 Workshop, held in August 2014, was the first in the workshop series, and involved the development of a roadmap for understanding contact sampling for trace explosives detection. The topic of […]
Read MoreStudent Spotlight Interview with Michael Collins September 28, 2015
Congratulations to Michael Collins, who graduated from Northeastern University in August 2014 with his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, as he is preparing to complete his participation in the ALERT DHS HS-STEM (Homeland Security Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Career Development Program! The Career Development Program (CDP) was established in 2011 with a grant […]
Read MoreSciX 2015, Presented by FACSS, Preliminary Program is Now Available September 18, 2015
SciX is the annual meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS). SciX 2015 will take place on September 27 – October 2, 2015 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI.
Read MoreDHS Funds AIT Task Order September 14, 2015
Congratulations Profs. Rappaport and Martinez!
Read More“The CT Meeting” Announced July 22, 2015
The 4th International Conference on Image Formation in X-Ray Computed Tomography(“The CT Meeting”) will be held July 18 – 22, 2016 in Bamberg, Germany.
Read MoreTESSA02 Workshop Announced July 1, 2015
ALERT is pleased to announce it will be hosting the Second “Trace Explosives Sampling for Security Applications” (TESSA02) Workshop, which will be held on August 5th, 2015 at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Read MoreALERT Research Featured in The New York Times July 1, 2015
ALERT “Tag-and-Track” video surveillance research was featured in a recent New York Times article, which discussed the video analytics project being led by Prof. Octavia Camps and Prof. Mario Sznaier at Northeastern University
Read MoreALERT Continues to Foster Collaboration at ADSA12 Workshop July 1, 2015
On May 12-13, 2015, the Twelfth Advanced Development for Security Applications Workshop (ADSA12) was held at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
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