PARVAC News and Events

2009-10-30 - Meeting in Washington, DC for DHS summer internship report

2009-10-09 - Meeting with WIIS

2009-10-08 - Meeting at Crowne Plaza Hotel for ISCRAM preparations

2009-10-07 - Meeting Coastal Security Institute in Sequim

2009-09-23 - DNDO exercises run by Coast Guard

2009-09-22 - GP-NFC visit for INSER

2009-09-21 - Meeting with NVAC Director

2009-09-18 - INSER faculty-student network initiative w/ other CAE members

2009-09-16 - Attended NVAC summer symposium in Richland by PNNL

2009-09-16 - Meeting in Washington, DC for DHS summer internship report

2009-09-16 - Meeting with WIIS Leadership Council

2009-09-14 - Meeting with WIIS Leadership Council

2009-09-11 - NCBSI Planning Meeting

2009-09-09 - ISCRAM Planning Meeting

2009-09-08 - Meeting at Crowne Plaza Hotel for ISCRAM Conference

2009-09-04 - Detroit Site Visit

2009-09-03 - Detroit Site Visit

2009-09-02 - ISCRAM Planning Meeting

2009-08-26 - Meeting with co-director of Women in International Security (WIIS)

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. 

2009-08-18 - VAC Conference

2009-08-18 to 2009-08-19 - Attended Research Symposium in Richland by PNNL

2009-08-13 - NCBSI Teleconference

2009-08-12 - ISCRAM Planning Meeting

2009-08-08 - ISCRAM 2010 Planning Meeting

2009-08-04 to 2009-08-06 - IC-CAE Summer Symposium

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 - NCBSI Meeting

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

2009-07-15 to 2009-07-16 - Blaine Site Visit

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

2009-07-09 - NCBSI Meeting

2009-07-07 - Site Visit to Blaine

2009-07-02 - NCBSI Workshop

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

2009-06-18 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-06-17 - PNNL-SQUIM meeting

2009-06-16 - Blaine Site Visit Conference Call

2009-06-12 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-06-10 - WSU Team Meeting

2009-06-05 - NCBSI Project Meeting

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.

2009-05-15 - NCBSI Project Meeting

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

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 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 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

2009-04-15 - 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.

2009-04-07 - 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.

2009-03-31 - 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.

2009-03-30 - 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.

2009-03-25 - NCBSI Project Meeting

2009-03-24 - PARVAC final report planning meeting

2009-03-23 - PARVAC Coordination 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.

2009-03-11 - 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

2009-01-17 - 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 - 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

2009-01-05 - NCBSI kick-off meeting

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 - 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 - Port Security Project Meeting

2008-11-12 - RIMSIM Meeting

2008-11-11 - Veratect Meeting

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 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.

2008-10-29 - 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!

2008-10-21 - 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.

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

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 - 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 - 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.

2008-09-08 - EPA Meeting

Meeting at EPA on the AMSC project.

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/.