ADSA10 Agenda
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DAY ONE – May 6, 2014
Workshop location: Raytheon, Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
7:30 AM | Registration/Continental Breakfast | |
8:30 AM | Welcome – ALERT | Michael B. Silevitch, Director of ALERT, Robert D. Black Professor of Engineering, Northeastern University |
8:35 AM | Welcome – DHS | Laura Parker, Program Manager, Explosives Division, Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security |
8:40 AM | Introduction | Carl Crawford, Csuptwo |
Setting the Stage
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9:00 AM | DHS Activities in Cargo Inspection | Steve Surko, Department of Homeland Security |
9:25 AM | Photon and Neutron Interrogation Techniques for Chemical Explosives Detection in Air Cargo: A Critical Review | Tim White, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
10:00 AM | What’s the Problem with Neutrons for Explosive Detection? | Harry Martz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
10:25 AM | Break |
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10:50 AM | Hurdles to the Adoption of New Methods II: The Regulators Strike Back | Tim Rayner, Multix Detection |
11:15 AM | Air Cargo Explosives Detection Pilot Project – Overview | Doug Bauer, Department of Homeland Security (Retired) |
11:25 AM | Air Cargo Explosives Detection Pilot Project – Details | Amy Waters, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
11:50 AM | SPAC: CT Scanning of Palletized Air Cargo & Security Challenges for Overnight Cargo | Walter Garms, Morpho Detection |
12:15 PM | Lunch | |
Advanced Technologies
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1:00 PM | Neutron Resonance Radiography | Dave Perticone, L-3 Communications |
1:25 PM | Two Particle Correlations in Low Efficiency Detector Systems | Ed Hartouni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
1:50 PM | Using Neutrons | Richard Lanza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2:15 PM | Hardened Unit Load Device (HULD) – Research and Development History | Nelson Carey, Department of Homeland Security |
2:40 PM | DHS Applications of PaX Source | Rajiv Gupta, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard |
3:05 PM | Databases and Algorithms for Mass Spec | Roderick Kunz, MIT Lincoln Lab |
3:30 PM | Reconstruction from Few Projections | Stefan Moser, Fraunhofer Institute for high-speed Dynamics |
Emerging Technologies |
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3:55 PM | DNDO’s Integrated Threat Detection Platform | Kevin Cronk, Department of Homeland Security |
4:20 PM | Signature Discovery Initiative | Mark Tardiff, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
4:45 PM | “Big Data” Machine Learning for Prediction and Classification | Daniel Acuna, Northwestern University |
Reception, Student Posters, and Networking
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5:10 PM | ALERT Student Poster Session / Reception Sponsored by Csuptwo |
ALERT Students, Carl Crawford, Csuptwo |
6:40 PM | Adjourn | Carl Crawford, Csuptwo |
DAY TWO – May 7, 2014
7:30 AM | Registration/Continental Breakfast | |
8:00 AM | Call to Order/ADSA10 | Carl Crawford, Csuptwo |
Advanced Technologies |
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8:10 AM | Cargo Scanning with X-rays and Neutrons and the Challenge of Effective Detection | Nick Cutmore, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) |
8:35 AM | Coded source neutron imaging | Jens Gregor, University of Tennessee |
9:00 AM | From Steady State to Pulsed: A Review of Neutron Interrogation Techniques for Explosives Detection | Dan Strellis, Rapiscan |
Emerging Technologies
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9:25 AM | Sparse View CT | Synho Do, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard |
9:50 AM | Radar Threat Detection | Dana Wheeler, Radio Physics Solutions |
10:15 AM | Break | |
10:40 AM | Femtosecond Laser Based Truck Mounted Trace Detection | Ted Goodson, University of Michigan |
11:05 AM | Interior Tomography and Spectral CT | Ge Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
11:30 AM | Lunch | |
Vendor perspectives
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12:15 PM | Misc. Topics | Ed Morton, Rapiscan |
12:40 PM | Challenges and Solutions of Air Cargo Screening | Kris Roe, Smiths Detection |
1:05 PM | Passport’s Explosive Detection Technology | Steve Korbly, Passport |
1:30 PM | L-3 Commercial Offerings | Mike Gildea, L-3 Communications |
1:55 PM | MVCTC | Simon Bedford, Astrophysics |
2:20 PM | A Mobile X-Ray/Neutron Cargo System for Aviation Security | Seth Van Liew, AS&E |
Wrap Up |
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2:45 PM | Next Steps | Harry Martz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
3:50 PM | Closing Remarks – ALERT | Michael Silevitch, Northeastern University / ALERT |
3:55 PM | Closing Remarks – DHS | Laura Parker, DHS |
4:00 PM | Adjourn | Carl Crawford, Csuptwo |

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