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| Title: | Operations Research and Homeland Security: From Models to Implementation |
| Authors: | Wein, Lawrence
Stanford University. Graduate School of Business |
| Subjects : | Public health
Homeland security
Pandemic influenza
Biometric identification
Operations research
Bio-terror attacks
Nuclear weapons |
| Issue Date: | 5-Mar-2009 |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Abstract: | Dr. Lawrence Wein will address topics related to his research in public health and homeland security including: Preparedness and response to bio-terror anthrax attacks and to bio-terror attacks on food supply chains; Routes of transmission and infection control for pandemic influenza; Biometrics (e.g. fingerprint matching) to prevent terrorists from entering the country. The lecture will focus on modeling, policy recommendations, and implementations of these recommendations. During the presentation, Dr. Wein will also draw lessons about policy implementations from these examples and from examples from other homeland security work, including prevention of a bio-terror smallpox attack, nuclear weapons entering the country on a shipping container, nuclear weapons entering a city, and terrorist sneaking across the U.S. - Mexico border. |
| Description: | Lawrence Wein, Ph.D. presented a lecture on March 5, 2009 at 3:30 pm in the Smithgall Student Services building, room 117. Lawrence M. Wein is the Paul E. Holden Professor of Management Science at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and an INFORMS Philip McCord Morse Lecturer. He received a Ph.D. from the Operations Research Department at Stanford University in 1988. He was a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 1988 to 2002. His research interests are in manufacturing and public health. Early in his career, he worked on heavy traffic analysis of queueing models for manufacturing systems, and his research on workload regulating release was
implemented widely in the semiconductor industry. Later he worked on a variety of health problems related to kidney transplants, and treatments for HIV (which led to a successful multi-center clinical trial on drug-switching protocols), cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and influenza.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, much of his research has focused on homeland security. His most recent work addresses post-traumatic stress disorder in
Operation Iraqi Freedom soldiers, and space debris. He was Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research from 2000 to 2005. He has been awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Erlang Prize, the Koopman Prize,
the INFORMS Expository Writing Award, the INFORMS President’s Award, and the Philip McCord Morse Lectureship. He is an INFORMS Fellow and a M&SOM Fellow. |
| Type: | Lecture |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27459 |
| Appears in Collections: | School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series
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