2009 Distinguished Lecture to Feature Philip McCord Morse Lecturer Dr. Lawrence M. Wein. The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering’s 2009 Distinguished Lecture will be held on March 5, 2009 and will feature the Phillip McCord Morse Lecturer, Dr. Lawrence M. Wein of Stanford University as this year’s guest lecture. In this presentation, Wein will give a brief description of his research on four topics: * homeland security and public health; * preparedness and response to a bioterror anthrax attack and to a bioterror attack on the food supply; * routes of transmission and infection control for pandemic influenza; and * biometrics (e.g., fingerprint matching) to prevent terrorists from entering the country. He will focus on the modeling, the policy recommendations, and the implementation of these recommendations. At the end of the talk, he will attempt to draw lessons about policy implementation from these examples and from examples from our other homeland security work, including a bioterror smallpox attack, preventing nuclear weapons from entering the country on a shipping container, preventing nuclear weapons from entering a city, and preventing terrorists from sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border. For more information on the upcoming lecture, visit http://www.isye.gatech.edu/news-events/dls/wein.php
Location: Charles Smithgall Student Services Building, Room 117
Fee: $0.00
Contact: Barbara Christopher, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Phone: 404.385.3102
