Honors

Photos from FredFest (“The DIMACS Tribute to the Many Facets of Fred Roberts”) from October 2024

Honoring Fred Roberts and Celebrating the Future, DIMACS, 2011

A Celebration in Honor of the Contributions of Fred S. Roberts on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Conference on Applications of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, October 10-11, 2003

Fred Roberts receiving a Docteur Honoris Causa Award at University of Paris-Dauphine, June 2013

NSF Director Rita Colwell and Deputy Director Joseph Bordogna presented Fred Roberts, Director of DIMACS, the “National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers Pioneer Award” on August 7, 2001 at a ceremony at NSF in Arlington, VA. The award was presented “in recognition of your vision, leadership, and entrepreneurial spirit in pioneering the science and technology center concept.”

Fred Roberts, Director of DIMACS, the "National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers Pioneer Award"

Science Lives Interview – NSF, April 2013

Math for the Real World

Celebrating DIMACS

DIMACS 20th Birthday

DIMACS 30^th Birthday (with Governor Phil Murphy)

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (center) with Rutgers Executive Dean Peter March (right) and the three most recent Directors of DIMACS -- Fred Roberts, Rebecca Wright, and David Pennock – at the DIMACS 30th Birthday Conference. — New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (center) with Rutgers Executive Dean Peter March (right) and the three most recent Directors of DIMACS — Fred Roberts, Rebecca Wright, and David Pennock – at the DIMACS 30th Birthday Conference.
Photo Credit: Steve Lubetkin

Homeland Security

Article about me in Inside Jersey Magazine

Photo of Fred Roberts in the article “How a Rutgers math Professor is using numbers to fight the war on terror” – in April 2016 Inside Jersey magazine. — Photo of me in the article “How a Rutgers math professor is using
numbers to fight the war on terror” – in April 2016 *Inside Jersey* magazine.
Photo credit: Amanda Brown, *Inside Jersey*

American Mathematical Society Congressional Briefing on Mathematics and Homeland Security, September 2004

Fred Roberts with Undersecretary of Homeland Security Charles McQueary in September 2004at the Congressional Briefing on Mathematics and Homeland Security. — Fred Roberts with Undersecretary of Homeland Security Charles McQueary in September 2004 at the Congressional Briefing on Mathematics and Homeland Security.

Ribbon cutting at the official CCICADA launch in December 2010

Left to right: Joe Kielman, Director of Futures Research at DHS Command, Control, and Interoperability Division, Brad Buswell, Deputy Undersecretary of DHS, Fred Roberts, and Matt Clark, DHS Director of University Programs.

Keynote address at NATO Conference on Maritime Cyber Security, Crete, 2019

Coast Guard

Parade of Ships, San Francisco Fleet Week, Aboard Coast Guard’s USS Boutwell, October 2015

Learning Seminar and Symposium on Maritime Cyber Security, March 2015: The CCICADA event that jump-started the field

Hosting Admiral Paul Zukunft, the Commandant of the US Coast Guard, October 2014

Hosting Admiral Paul Zukunft, the Commandant of the US Coast Guard

Delivering a Briefing to Admiral Mark Butt of US Coast Guard HQ on Coast Guard Boat Allocation, February 2013

Delivering a Briefing to Admiral Mark Butt of US Coast Guard HQ

Delivering a Briefing to Admiral Daniel Abel of US Coast Guard District 1 on Fisheries Law Enforcement, January 2013

Delivering a Briefing to Admiral Daniel Abel of US Coast Guard District 1

Coast Guard tour of Port of Philadelphia, June 2006

Stadium and Related Visits

MetLife Stadium Walkthrough Metal Detector Testing February 2023

MetLife Stadium Sidelines during Site Visit December 2014

MetLife Stadium Sidelines during Site Visit

SAFETY Act Briefing to MetLife Stadium CEO, High-ranking representatives of the NY Giants and NY Jets, and DHS Officials, 2013

MetLife Stadium Data Gathering on Wanding and Walkthrough Metal Detector Testing, including CCICADA Experimental Ideas – numerous dates 2011-2014

Houston Rodeo and NRG Stadium March 2025

Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA, May 2024

CITI Field (NY Mets) Site Visit August 2015

Observing Walkthrough Metal Detector Testing at CEIA Research Labs, 2014

Plenary Talk at National Football League Security Summit, Carlsbad, CA, June 2014

Plenary Talk at National Football League Security Summit

Progressive Field (Cleveland) Site Visit August 2014

Yankee Stadium Site Visit 2013

African Initiative

International Workshop on Modeling of Infectious Diseases, with a Focus on Ebola, Dakar, March 2016

Next Einstein Forum (jointly sponsored by Presidents of Senegal and Rwanda), March 2016

Workshop on Quantitative Ecology and Sustainable Environments, University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2012

Advanced Study Institute and Workshop on Conservation Biology, Southern African Wildlife College, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 2010

Advanced Study Institute and Workshop on Economic Epidemiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 2009

2007 Advanced Study Institute and Workshop at African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch, South Africa

First DIMACS Africa Workshop: DIMACS/AIMS/SACEMA Workshop on Facing the Challenge of Infectious Diseases in Africa: The Role of Mathematical Modeling, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2006

LAMSADE Partnership

The DIMACS-LAMSADE partnership includes workshops as follows: Computer Science and Decision Making (2004); Voting Theory and Preference Modeling (2006); Algorithmic Decision Theory, including the first ADT workshop in 2008 that launched the first ADT international conference in 2009 (2008, 2011, 2025); Evidence-based Policy Making (2010); Mathematics of Planet Earth International Workshop on Citizen Science (2015); Social Responsibility of Algorithms (2019);Human-Machine Collaboration (2022); Meaningful, Useful, and Legitimate Information in Decision Making (2023)