{"id":833,"date":"2026-08-28T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/fredroberts\/?page_id=833"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:22:34","slug":"lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/fredroberts\/lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Selected Invited Lectures (out of &gt; 150 invited lectures)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Invited address, SIAM National Meeting, Cal. Tech., 1974<\/li>\n<li>Invited address, Mathematical Association of America National Meeting, Biloxi, 1979<\/li>\n<li>International Congress on Mathematics Education, Berkeley, 1980<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Mathematical Psychology, Brussels, 1983<\/li>\n<li>Invited address, Beijing Mathematical Society, 1985<\/li>\n<li>First International Symposium on Combinatorics, Seoul, S. Korea, 1995 (series of two plenary lectures)<\/li>\n<li>Invited address, Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1998<\/li>\n<li>Plenary talk, International Conference: 2000 &#8212; The Year of Mathematics (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the 150th Anniversary of the Academy), Budapest, 2000<\/li>\n<li>Rota Lecture, International Conference on Interconnections among Codes, Designs, Graphs and Molecular Biology, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2002<\/li>\n<li>American Mathematical Society Congressional Briefing: \u201cHomeland Security: What Can Mathematicians Do?\u201d Washington, DC, 2004<\/li>\n<li>Plenary talk at European Mathematical Psychology Group meeting, Luxembourg, September 2007<\/li>\n<li>First International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, Venice, October 2009<\/li>\n<li>40th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, March 2009<\/li>\n<li>Mathematique de la planete Terre, lecture at University of Paris Dauphine on occasion of being awarded Docteur Honoris Causa, June 2013<\/li>\n<li>Plenary talk, National Football League Security Summit, Carlsbad, CA, June 2014<\/li>\n<li>Keynote talk, International Conference on Global Challenges and Data-driven Science, Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 2017<\/li>\n<li>Keynote talk, NATO Maritime Cyber Security Conference, Crete, April 2019<\/li>\n<li>Plenary talk, International Conference on Matrix Theory with Applications to Combinatorics, Optimization and Data Science, Cheju Island, Korea, December 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected Invited Lecture Series (&gt; 40 invited lecture series)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cornell University (10 lectures on Mathematical Models in Environmental Science), 1973<\/li>\n<li>NSF-CBMS Lectures: Colby College (10 lectures on Graph Theory and its Applications to Problems of Society), 1977<\/li>\n<li>The Citadel (10 lectures on Discrete Mathematical Models in the Social, Biological and Environmental Sciences), 1978<\/li>\n<li>Four-lecture minicourse on \u201cApplications of Discrete Mathematics,\u201d MAA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 1985<\/li>\n<li>ORSA National Meeting, Boston (6 lectures on Applications of Graph Theory), 1985<\/li>\n<li>Jilin University of Technology, Changchun, China (8 lectures), 1985 (as one of first Westerners invited to lectue in China)<\/li>\n<li>Academia Sinica, Beijing (4 lectures), 1985<\/li>\n<li>Ten lectures on \u201cApplications of Discrete Mathematics,\u201d MAA Northeastern Section, University of Maine, Orono, 1987<\/li>\n<li>Le Troisieme Cycle Romand in Operations Research, Grimentz, Switzerland (14 lectures), 1988<\/li>\n<li>Four lecture minicourse on \u201cApplications of Discrete Mathematics,\u201d MAA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, 1989<\/li>\n<li>MAA Mathfest, Knoxville, TN (2 hours of lectures on Measurement of Pollution at Short Course in Environmental Modeling), 2006<\/li>\n<li>INFORMS National Meeting, Austin, TX (tutorial series on Meaningless Statements in Epidemiology), 2010<\/li>\n<li>Two Lectures on Data Analysis and Homeland Security at Visual Analytics Summer School, Middlesex University, London, UK, 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recent Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modeling the Impact of Complex, Multi-Vector Disruptions to the Marine Transportation System (MCAT)<br \/>\n(US Coast Guard Board of Inquiry Convened after the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse, Baltimore, November 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Risk Assessment for Integrated Cyber and Physical Attacks on Stadiums and Transportation Systems<br \/>\n(Invited presentation at ADSA28: Building Effective Security for Soft Targets, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, November 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Risk Assessment for Integrated Cyber and Physical Attacks on Critical Infrastructure<br \/>\n(Western Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Santa Rosa, CA, April 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Meaningful, Useful, and Legitimate Information in the Use of Index Numbers in Decision Making<br \/>\n(Invited presentation to workshop on Meaningful, Useful, Legitimate Information in Decision Making, LAMSADE, Paris, December 2023)<\/li>\n<li>Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems: From Football to Oil Rigs<br \/>\n(Invited presentation to Interagency Task Group on Cyber-Physical Systems (co-chaired by CISA, USACE, NSF), April 2023 [virtual])<\/li>\n<li>Modeling the Impact of Complex, Multi-Vector Disruptions to the Marine Transportation System (MCAT)<br \/>\n(Invited lunch and learn webinar, US Committee on the Marine Transportation System (interagency committee based at Dept. of Transportation), February 2023 [virtual]; presentation to Interagency (US Government) Committee on the Supply Chain, March 2023 [virtual]; Invited presentation to Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Resilience Services Branch, April 2023 [virtual]; invited presentation, Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February 2023; invited presentation to ESF-1 Working Group of the FEMA Region X Regional Interagency Steering Committee, February 2023 [virtual]; invited presentation, Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 2024; US Coast Guard Waterways Management, October 2024 )<\/li>\n<li>Graph-theoretical Models of the Spread and Control of Disease and of Fighting Fires<br \/>\n(Plenary talk at International Conference on Matrix Theory with Applications to Combinatorics, Optimization and Data Science, Cheju Island, Korea, December 2022 [virtual].; invited talk at International Conference on Data Analysis, Optimization and their Applications, Moscow, January 2023 [virtual])<\/li>\n<li>Complex Economic Consequence Analysis to Protect the Maritime Infrastructure<br \/>\n(IEEE Homeland Security Technologies Conference, virtual, November 2022; winner of best paper award)<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable Electrical Power Systems<br \/>\n(Invited talk at workshop on Human-Machine Collaboration in a Changing World, Paris, December 2022 [virtual])<\/li>\n<li>Macroeconomic Impacts on the U.S. of Maritime Supply-Chain Shocks Associated with the War in Ukraine<br \/>\n(Western Economic Association Meetings, virtual, July 2022)<\/li>\n<li>AI and Homeland Security<br \/>\n(Colloquium on AI4IA : Artificial Intelligence for Intelligence Analysis, City College of New York, February 2022. [virtual])<\/li>\n<li>Complex Multi-vector Disruptions of the Supply Chain<br \/>\n(SciDataCon Conference, October 2021 [virtual])<\/li>\n<li>AI and Disasters<br \/>\n(Conference on Transformative Disaster Risk Governance, York University, Toronto, Canada, April 2021. [virtual])<\/li>\n<li>Supply Chains: How the World is Interconnected &amp; How &#8220;Black Swan Events&#8221; Can Leave us without Critical Supplies When we Need Them<br \/>\n(Webinar talk at DHS University Centers of Excellence Summit Student TTX Session, April 2021. [virtual])<\/li>\n<li>New Mathematically-based Tools of Systems Analysis and Related Decision Support Applications<br \/>\n(Conference on Systems Analysis in Eurasia, National University of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia, April 2021. [virtual])<\/li>\n<li>Meaningless Statements About Performance of Intelligent Machines in Emergency Management<br \/>\n(Seminar talk at Missouri University of Science and Technology, November 2020.)<\/li>\n<li>Meaningless Statements in Performance Measurement for Intelligent Machines<br \/>\n(Seminar talk at Tufts, May 2020.)<\/li>\n<li>Resilience in Complex Linked Systems<br \/>\n(Invited talk at Workshop on Big Data and Systems Analysis, International Institute for Systems Analysis, Vienna, February 2020.)<\/li>\n<li>Socially Responsible Facial Recognition of Animals<br \/>\n(Invited talk at Workshop on Social Responsibility of Algorithms, Paris, December 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Combined Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Maritime Transportation System<br \/>\n(Keynote talk at NATO Maritime Cyber Security Conference, Crete, April 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Combined Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Maritime Transportation System (Risk Assessment)<br \/>\n(Society for Risk Analysis, New Orleans, December 2018; Society for Benefit and Cost Analysis, Washington, DC, March 2018)<\/li>\n<li>i-Group Learning and i-Detect for Dynamic Anomaly Detection with Applications in Maritime Threat Detection<br \/>\n(2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST&#8217;18), Woburn, MA, October 2018.)<\/li>\n<li>Automated Biometric Identification of Individual Cheetahs and Leopards<br \/>\n(Workshop on Automated Biometric Identification of Individual Cheetahs and Leopards, Duke University, August 2018.)<\/li>\n<li>Global Challenges and Big Data<br \/>\n(Keynote talk at International Conference on Global Challenges and Data-driven Science, Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 2017.)<\/li>\n<li>Meaningful and Meaningless Statements Using Metrics for the Border Condition<br \/>\n(2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security, Boston, May 2016) (winner of Best Paper Award)<\/li>\n<li>Trend Flagging to Aid Resource Allocation Decisions<br \/>\n(talk at Western Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Kauai, April 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Combined Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Maritime Transportation System<br \/>\n(Invited talk at Cyber Security Workshop, US Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound, Niantic, CT, December 2017;\u00a0 Drew University, March 2018; invited Breakfast Talk at Annual Meeting of Society for Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Providence, October 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Avoiding Bias in Implementations of Randomized Protocols in Security Screening<br \/>\n(Workshop on Social Responsibility of Algorithms, U. of Paris Dauphine, December 2017)<\/li>\n<li>Venue Public Security &amp; Stadium Access Security<br \/>\n(Invited plenary talk at TSA-NPPD Public Area Security Summit, Tyson&#8217;s Corner, VA, April 2017; invited plenary talk at Workshop on Advanced Development for Security Applications, Northeastern University, May 2017)<\/li>\n<li>What is Big Data and How has it Changed?<br \/>\n(Invited talk at International Conference on Data Intensive Systems Analysis for Geohazard Studies, Sochi, Russia, July 2016.)<\/li>\n<li>Stadium Best Practices and BIG Ten Standards<br \/>\n(Big Ten Emergency Management and Special Events Conference, Big Ten Security Directors, Rutgers University, August 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics of Planet Earth<br \/>\n(Willie B. Rajanna Memorial Lecture, Morgan State University, April 2015.)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics of Planet Earth: Natural Disasters<br \/>\n(Workshop on MPE: Natural Disasters, Georgia Tech, May 2015.)<\/li>\n<li>Vulnerabilities of Cyber-Physical Systems: From Football to Oil Rigs<br \/>\n(Plenary talk at International Conference on Cyber Security, Fordham University, Jan. 2015;\u00a0 Lecture to Rutgers College Class of 1961, Rutgers Day, April 2016; keynote talk at Conference on Cyber Security Community Awareness, Kean University, October 2017)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE): Education for the Planet Earth of Tomorrow<br \/>\n(Workshop on MPE: Education for the Planet Earth of Tomorrow, NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, September 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics of Planet Earth: Management of Natural Resources<br \/>\n(Workshop on MPE: Management of Natural Resources, Howard University, June 2015)<\/li>\n<li>The Little-known Challenge of Maritime Cyber Security<br \/>\n(6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, 1st International Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine Transportation, Corfu, Greece, July 2015; INFORMS National Meeting, Philadelphia, November 2015<\/li>\n<li>Data and Citizen Science<br \/>\n(Plenary talk, International Workshop on Citizen Science, Paris, December 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Boat Allocations, Football Inspections, Cargo Handling, and Nuclear Detection with Taxis: Examples of Model Validation, Conference on Validation: What is it?<br \/>\n(University of California &#8211; Irvine, February 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Analytical Approaches to Aviation Security at CCICADA<br \/>\n(CREATE-TSA Summer Symposium, July 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Stadium Security<br \/>\n(National Football League Annual Security Meeting, Carlsbad, CA, June 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Algorithmic Decision Theory and the Smart Grid<br \/>\n(Workshop &#8220;Toward the Smart Grid,&#8221; Lehigh University, January 2012; Workshop on Mathematics of Planet Earth: Data-Aware Energy Use, University of California, San Diego, September 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics of Planet Earth: Sustainable Human Environments<br \/>\n(MPE2013+ Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities, Arizona State University, Jan. 2014; MPE2013+ workshop on Sustainable Human Environments, DIMACS, April 2014; CCICADA Retreat at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, May 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Competition Graphs and Food Webs: Some of My Favorite Conjectures<br \/>\n(American Mathematical Society Special Session on My Favorite Graph Theory Conjectures, Baltimore, MD, Jan. 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Defending Against H1N1 Virus, Smallpox, and Other Naturally Occurring or Deliberately Caused Diseases: How Can Graph Theory Help?<br \/>\n(NAM Mathfest, Washington, DC, November 2009; Math for America, NYU, January 2010; Colloquium at West Chester University, October 2013; New York Area Graph Theory Day, Rutgers University, April 2014<\/li>\n<li>The Trend Toward Convergence of Physical and Logical (Cyber) Security<br \/>\n(Conference on Cyber\/Homeland Security &#8211; Opportunities for U.S.-Israel Partnerships, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, Jan. 2014)<\/li>\n<li>My Collaborations with Paul Kantor: From the Paper Neither of Us Can Access to Fish<br \/>\n(Fusion Fest: Marrying Methods to Solve Real-world Problems, Rutgers University, October 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Meaningless Statements in Epidemiology<br \/>\n(Talk at Workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases in Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 2007; REU Seminar at Rutgers, June 2009; Advanced Study Institute in Economic Epidemiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 2009; Tutorial at INFORMS National Meeting, Austin, TX, November 2010; Conference on Meaningfulness and Learning Spaces: A Tribute to the Work of Jean-Claude Falmagne, UC Irvine, Feb. 2014; Seminar at RPI, December 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Homeland Security: What Can Data Science Do?<br \/>\n(University of Texas-San Antonio, Jan. 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Algorithmic Decision Theory and Risk-based Decision Making in the Maritime Environment<br \/>\n(National Strategic Maritime Risk Conference, Purdue University, November 2013.)<\/li>\n<li>Estimating Violation Risk for Fisheries Regulations<br \/>\n(Third International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, Brussels, Belgium, November 2013.)<\/li>\n<li>Consensus List Colorings of Graphs<br \/>\n(Workshop on Algorithmic Information Fusion and Data Mining (WAIFDM), DIMACS, September 2013; Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory XIII, November 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics of Planet Earth, Homeland Security, and Algorithmic Decision Theory<br \/>\n(Workshop on Urban Planning for Climate Events, DIMACS, September 2013.)<\/li>\n<li>How Policy Analytics Leads to &#8220;Changes in the Culture&#8221;: Examples from Homeland Security<br \/>\n(Workshop on Conception Innovante des Politiques Publiques, University of Paris-Dauphine, June 2013.)<\/li>\n<li>The Tradeoff between Security and Commerce in Urban Areas<br \/>\n(Plenary talk at conference on Tools for Group Decision (OPDE)\/Optimization Days, Montreal, May 2013.)<\/li>\n<li>Scoring Rules for Fisheries Rules Violations<br \/>\n(Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Information Fusion, DIMACS, November 2012)<\/li>\n<li>Meaningless Statements in Landscape Ecology and Environmental Sustainability<br \/>\n(Workshop on Quantitative Ecology and Sustainable Environments, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, July 2012; \u00a0DIMACS\/CCICADA Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, September 2012; International Workshop on Clusters, Orders, Trees: Methods and Applications, in Honor of Professor Boris Mirkin, Moscow, Russia, December 2012)<\/li>\n<li>Algorithmic Decision Theory and the Port Reopening Scheduling Problem<br \/>\n(Maritime Risk Symposium, Rutgers, November 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Algorithmic Decision Theory and Smart Cities<br \/>\n(Workshop on Smart Cities, Paris, 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Homeland Security: What Can Mathematics Do?<br \/>\n(DIMACS\/CCICADA\/DHS Student Conference on Discrete Mathematics: One Way to Exciting Careers in Homeland Security, July, 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Algorithmic Decision Theory and Sustainability<br \/>\n(Workshop on Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainability (WICS), held in Conjunction with IEEE SECON 2011, Salt Lake City, June 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Sensor Management for Nuclear Defense &#8211; Layered Defense<br \/>\n(Domestic Nuclear Detection Academic Research Initiative Conference April 2011; Domestic Nuclear Detection Academic Research Initiation Conference July 2012 )<\/li>\n<li>US -China Computer Science Leadership Summits<br \/>\n(Workshop on Effective Engagement and Collaboration of US CISE &#8211; China Researchers, Arlington, VA, May 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Urban Commerce and Security Study (UCASS)<br \/>\n(DHS University Programs Summit, Washington, DC, March 2011; Visual Analytics Community (VAC) Consortium May 2011 Meeting, U. of Maryland, May 2011; Technologies for Incident Preparedness Conference, National Harbor, MD, September 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Algorithmic Decision Theory for the Smart Grid<br \/>\n(Workshop on Algorithmic Decision Theory for the Smart Grid, DIMACS, October 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Data Science Challenges for Homeland Security<br \/>\n(Plenary talk at Visual Analytics Summer School, Middlesex University, London, UK, September 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Measurement of Biodiversity<br \/>\n(Advanced Study Institute in Conservation Biology, Southern African Wildlife College, Hoedspruit, South Africa, August 2010; Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making, University of Paris Dauphine, December 2010; Special Session Mathematics of Planet Earth: Energy, Population, Sustainability, at Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 2013)<\/li>\n<li>Competition Graphs and the Dimensions of Biodiversity<br \/>\n(Workshop on Conservation Biology, Southern African Wildlife College, Hoedspruit, South Africa, August 2010; CCICADA\/DIMACS Interdisciplinary Seminar, October 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Port Resilience<br \/>\n(Talk at Dept. of Homeland Security University Network Summit, Washington, DC, March 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Measurement of Pollution<br \/>\n(tutorial at First International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, Venice, Italy, October 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes it Pays to be Greedy: Greedy Algorithms in Economic Epidemiology<br \/>\n(Advanced Study Institute in Economic Epidemiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Epidemiology: An Operations Research Approach<br \/>\n(Advanced Study Institute in Economic Epidemiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Why BioMath? Why Now?<br \/>\n(DIMACS BioMath Connect Institute, July 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Why BioMath? Why Now? (BioMath in the Classroom)<br \/>\n(Plenary talk at Conference on Mathematics and Biology: The New Educational Synergy, SUNY Farmingdale, April 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection: Finding Optimal Binary Decision Trees<br \/>\n(Plenary talk at 40th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, March 2009; plenary talk at Meeting of NYC Section of the Mathematical Association of America, May 2010; plenary talk at Visual Analytics Summer School, Middlesex University, London, UK, September 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Boolean Functions I Have Known and Not Known (Memories of Peter L. Hammer)<br \/>\n(talk at Workshop on Boolean and Pseudo-Boolean Functions in Memory of Peter L. Hammer, January 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Climate and Disease<br \/>\n(talk at Modeling the Impact of Policy Options during Public Health Crises, Banff International Research Station, July 2008)<\/li>\n<li>How Modelers can Help Policymakers before and during Health Crises (The Case of TOPOFF 3)<br \/>\n(talk at Modeling the Impact of Policy Options during Public Health Crises, Banff International Research Station, July 2008)<\/li>\n<li>Voting Problems and Computer Science Applications<br \/>\n(talk at Math Awareness Month Workshop on Mathematics and Voting Theory, New Jersey City University, April 2008)<\/li>\n<li>Decision Support for Port of Entry Inspection<br \/>\n(seminar at Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, January 2008)<\/li>\n<li>Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs (Also: REU Seminar at DIMACS, July 2008)<br \/>\n(Minisymposium on Discrete Sciences Applications in Homeland Security, Rutgers University, September 2007)<br \/>\n(Also, at &#8220;BuckFest! A Conference in Honor of F.R. &#8220;Buck&#8221; McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology, May 2008)<\/li>\n<li>Applications of Measurement Theory\/Meaningfulness in Epidemiology\/Public Health<br \/>\n(Plenary talk at European Mathematical Psychology Group meeting, Luxembourg, September 2007, and at MINET &#8211; European Commission Measuring the Impossible Network Training Course, Genoa, Italy, June 2008).<\/li>\n<li>Why Bio-Math? Why Now?<br \/>\n(DIMACS BioMath Connection Field Testers Workshop, July 2007; DIMACS BioMath Connection Field Testers Workshop, July 2008 )\\<\/li>\n<li>Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs<br \/>\n(Talk at DyDAn program on Mathematics and Homeland Security for High School Teachers, May 2007).<\/li>\n<li>Locating Sensors to Detect Chem, Bio, or Nuclear Threats<br \/>\n(Talk at DyDAn program on Mathematics and Homeland Security for High School Teachers, May 2007).<\/li>\n<li>Computer Science and Decision Making<br \/>\n(Talk at Workshop on Voting Theory and Preference Modeling, University of Paris &#8211; Dauphine, October 2006).<\/li>\n<li>New Challenges for Modelers of Infectious Diseases of Africa<br \/>\n(Talk at Workshop on on Facing the Challenge of Infectious Diseases in Africa: The Role of Mathematical Modeling in Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2006).<\/li>\n<li>Measurement of Pollution<br \/>\n(Two hour tutorial at MAA Shortcourse on Environmental Modeling, Knoxville, 8-06).<\/li>\n<li>Social Choice and Computer Science<br \/>\n(Semi-plenary talk at EUROXXI (21st European Conference on Operations Research sponsored by the Association of European Operational Research Societies, EURO), Rekjavik, Iceland, July 2006; REU Seminar, DIMACS, June 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Computer Science and the Socioeconomic Sciences<br \/>\n(Presentation at Xi&#8217;An Xiaotong University, Xi&#8217;An, China, 5-06).<\/li>\n<li>Consensus List Colorings and Physical Mapping of DNA<br \/>\n(Rota Lecture at International Conference on the Interconnections Among Codes, Designs, Graphs and Molecular Biology, Hsinchu, Taiwan 5-02; Combinatorial Challenges 2006 (A Meeting in Celebration of Pavol Hell&#8217;s 60th Birthday, Victoria, BC, Canada), 5-06; Allegheny Mountain Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, 4-070<\/li>\n<li>Insightful Understanding of China&#8217;s Higher Education and Research in Computer Science and Information Technology<br \/>\n(At Opening Ceremony for NSF Beijing Office, Beijing, China, 5-06).<\/li>\n<li>Research Centers<br \/>\n(At US-China Computer Science Leadership Summit, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 5-06).<\/li>\n<li>(DIMACS\/DIMATIA\/Renyi Combinatorial Challenges Conference, 4-06).<\/li>\n<li>Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs<br \/>\n(Conference on Mathematical Methods in Counter-terrorism, Columbia, SC, 11-05;<br \/>\nINFORMS Special Session on Diagnosis Models for Port of Entry Inspections, San Francisco, 11-05)<\/li>\n<li>Graph-theoretical Problems Arising from Defending Against Bioterrorism and Controlling the Spread of Fires<br \/>\n(Talk at DIMACS\/DIMATIA\/Renyi Combinatorial Challenges Conference, 4-06; talk at DyDAn program on Mathematics and Homeland Security for High School Teachers, May 2007; talk at DIMACS\/AIMS\/SACEMA Advanced Study Institute on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases of Africa, at African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Muizenberg, South Africa, June 2007)<\/li>\n<li>Graph-theoretic Models of the Spread and Control of Disease and of Fighting Fires<br \/>\n(Presentation at DIMACS Bio-Math Connect Institute, 7-05; Stewart-Dowart Lecture, Trinity College, 3-06; Charles Franke Memorial Lecture, Seton Hall University, 4-08<\/li>\n<li>Decision Support Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection<br \/>\n(Presentation at DHS meeting on &#8220;Research and Development Partnerships in Homeland Security&#8221;, Boston, 4-05)<\/li>\n<li>On Balanced Signed Graphs and Consistent Marked Graphs<br \/>\n(Lecture at Workshop on Graph Colorings and their Generalizations, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary, 4-05)<\/li>\n<li>Graph-Theoretical Models of the Spread and Control of Disease<br \/>\n(Talk at Seminar on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, DIMACS, 10-04)<\/li>\n<li>The Theory of Measurement and its Applications<br \/>\n(6 hours of tutorial lectures at DIMACS Working Group Meeting on Order-theoretic Aspects of Epidemiology, DIMACS, 3-05)<\/li>\n<li>Homeland Security: What Can Mathematics Do?<br \/>\n(Luncheon briefing for Members of Congress and Staff, House Office Building, Washington, DC, sponsored by American Mathematical Society, 9\/04)<\/li>\n<li>Competition Graphs of Semiorders<br \/>\n(Falmagne Festschrift at the Society for Mathematical Psychology Annual Meeting, 8-04; Workshop on Computer Science and Decision Theory, Paris, 10-04; Conference on Probabilistic Combinatorics and Algorithms: A Conference in Honor of Joel Spencer&#8217;s 60th Birthday, 4-06)<\/li>\n<li>The RNA Detective Game: Finding RNA Chains From Fragments<br \/>\n(DIMACS Biomath Connect Institute Meeting, 7-04; DIMACS Biomath Connect Institute Meeting, 7-06)<\/li>\n<li>Role Assignments and Social Networks<br \/>\n(Brest, France Minisymposium 10-04, MAA NJ Section Meeting 3\/04, DIMACS-DIMATIA-Renyi Meeting on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, Budapest, 4\/04 and RPI colloquium)<\/li>\n<li>Homeland Security Research at DIMACS<br \/>\n(Seminar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2-05)<\/li>\n<li>Homeland Security: What Can Mathematics Do?<br \/>\n(Precalculus Conference, 3\/04)<\/li>\n<li>Information Processing in the Biological Organism (A Systems Biology Approach)<br \/>\n(Report on a Workshop of the same name, at BISTI Symposium, NIH, 11-03)<\/li>\n<li>Overview of Homeland Security Research at Rutgers<br \/>\n(State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research, 10-03)<\/li>\n<li>Telecom Research at Rutgers University<br \/>\n(NJ Commission on Jobs, Growth, and Economic Development, 7-03)<\/li>\n<li>The Bioterrorism Sensor Location Problem<br \/>\n(Modeling and Prediction of Disease Conference 3\/03; also Los Alamos National Lab 5\/03)<\/li>\n<li>The Tree of Life: Challenges for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science<br \/>\n(DIMACS Tree of Life Workshop 3\/03)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics and Bioterrorism: Graph-Theoretical Models of Spread and Control of Disease<br \/>\n(DIMACS Connect Institute 7\/02 and talks at West Point Discrete Math Meeting 10\/02 and colloquia at Colgate and Montclair State)<\/li>\n<li>Challenges for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science in the Defense Against Bioterrorism<br \/>\n(SIAM Meeting, 7\/02)<\/li>\n<li>Consensus List Coloring and Physical Mapping of DNA<br \/>\n(&#8220;Rota Lecture&#8221; at Conference on the Interconnections among Codes, Designs, Graphs, and Molecular Biology, Taiwan, 5\/02; also at International Conference on Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis, Irvine, CA, 8\/03, and DIMACS-DIMATIA-Renyi Meeting on Generalizations of Graph Coloring 10-03)<\/li>\n<li>Modeling and Bioterrorism: Why Model?<br \/>\n(Conference on Mathematical Modeling of the Spread of Selected Bioterrorism Agents, MITRE Corporation, 3\/02)<\/li>\n<li>Voting, Metasearch, and Bioconsensus<br \/>\n(NY Academy of Science Distinguished Scientist Lecture, 5\/01; also at U. of South Carolina and U. of Paris IX)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected Invited Lectures (out of &gt; 150 invited lectures) Invited address, SIAM National Meeting, Cal. 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