SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | PEOPLE SCREENING |
| Recent events in the world illustrate the need for the screening of personnel for explosives and drugs. The threat of explosives to aviation, mass transit, and public venues such as street markets, malls, and restaurants is current and real. Drugs screening at points of entry and of people for evidence of use is also an important requirement. Presently, the two main approaches for detection of concealed bulk material on a person focus on: (1) trace particles or vapors that may be on the clothes or hands of the bomber, or (2) detecting a bulk signature as an anomaly on the person. In addition, drugs use may be detected by use of physiological markers. The speakers will address these approaches with some new techniques for solving this difficult problem. |
| Discussion Leader: Barry Smith (Department of Homeland Security) |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Ken Cooper (CAL TECH - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
"Range-Resolving Terahertz Imager for Concealed Weapons Detection" |
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
8:05 pm - 8:25 pm | Colin Self (University of Newcastle)
"Making immunoassay work to provide high performance point-of-need testing systems for drugs and explosives" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm | David Sheen (Pacific Northwest Laboratory)
"Active millimeter-wave and terahertz imaging for standoff concealed explosive detection on personnel" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Chieu Tran (Marquette University)
"Near-Infrared Multispectral Imaging for Remote Detection of Trace Chemicals" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DETECTING NOVEL EXPLOSIVES |
| Terrorists are always keen to acquire and use military and commercial explosives. However, where terrorists have found this difficult to achieve, they have turned to HME as an alternative, for use in IEDs. Terrorists are resourceful and innovative and are likely to continue to use and develop unusual HME mixes in the foreseeable future. This session will look at some of the novel materials that have been used by terrorists around the world, and will explore how both well established and more novel detection and analytical techniques can be exploited, to mitigate against this continuing and evolving threat. |
| Discussion Leader: Shabana Haque (CPNI) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Jim Phelan (Sandia National Laboratories)
"Thermochemistry of Hydrogen Peroxide/Fuel Explosives" |
9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
9:35 am - 10:00 am | Rob Stokes (U Strathclyde)
"Detection of hydrogen peroxide by Raman Scattering and Nanoparticle plasmonics" |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:10 am | Nadav Biran (Israel Prime Ministers Office) |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:45 am | Selena Halliday (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory)
"Canine Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide Organic Mixtures" |
11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Indu Mishra (University of Nevada, Reno)
"Nanotube array sensors for detection of certain improvised explosives" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BAGGAGE SCREENING |
| Baggage screening includes checked and carry-on luggage specifically. It also indirectly can include break-bulk cargo and mail inspection. X-ray imaging is used to inspect both checked and carry-on luggage for bulk (greater than or equal to threat mass) explosives. In the U.S. checked baggage has a certified testing protocol; at this time there are two technologies that are certified: X-ray computed tomography (CT) and X-ray diffraction. Carry-on baggage screening does not have a defined certification testing protocol. In addition to X-ray imaging of baggage trace detection is employed on a random basis and for clearing X-ray alarms. This session will explore advances in X-ray CT and diffraction to improve conventional explosives detection as well as home made explosives while reducing false alarm rates. In addition R&D in the area of nuclear quadrupole resonance for bulk detection and using thermal energy for trace detection will be discussed. |
| Discussion Leader: Harry Martz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Richard Bijjani (Reveal Imaging)
"Limitations of Using CT for Explosive Detection" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Geoff Harding (GE Security Germany)
"XRD-based liquids characterization for security applications" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Karen Sauer (George Mason University)
"Detecting explosives with an NQR-integrated magnetometer" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Ed Bromberg (L-3 Communications, Cyterra Corporation)
"Detection of Trace Explosives Using Thermal Energy" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CARGO AND VEHICLE SCREENING |
| The subject of cargo inspection for the presence of hidden illicit materials has always been inspiring and challenging because of technological difficulties, logistic implications and the complicated political and commercial playing field. Although the application of non-invasive inspection solutions for drugs, fiscal goods, and explosives require different scenarios, the technology challenges largely share the same components: high selectivity, extreme sensitivity, acceptable speed. The session will focus on drugs and explosives and provide views from a government policy side, investigating the increase of traffic volume and detection requirements, underpinning the need for collaborative approach in developing (currently lacking) technological solutions. Technological developments will be reported from the area of neutron source confirmation technologies and integration. Presenters will also focus on fieldability and real-world performance potential. |
| Discussion Leader: Jaap de Ruiter (TNO) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | John Whyte (HM Revenue & Customs)
"HMRC Drug detection policy/strategies and associated technologyissues/constraints" |
9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
9:35 am - 10:00 am | Jean-Louis Szabo (CEA LIST)
"EURITRACK: a EURopean Illicit Trafficking Countermeasures Kit project" |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:10 am | Andrey Kuznetsov (Kholopin Radium Institute)
"Confirmation Sensor for Detection of Hazardous Substances in Cargo and Vehicles" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:45 am | Giuseppe Viesti (University of Padova)
"Current status on detection of illicit materials in cargo containers by using neutron beams" |
11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Juan Fernandez de la Mora (Yale University)
"API-MS detection of low volatility species and single microparticles in the gas phase" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FORENSICS AND CHEMICAL SURVEILLANCE |
| The use of chemical evidence in the apprehension and adjudication of criminals has been facilitated by developments of new technology and analysis capabilities. However, developing forensics methods allowing for the proper incorporation of this evidence is still an evolving effort. This session illustrates the adaptation of new as well as accepted analysis technologies for forensics and chemical surveillance in drug and explosives detection in the international arena. Four exciting and comprehensive presentations will be given. Topics covered are: Using natural abundance stable isotopes for distinguishing the sources to manufacturers of explosives as well as related residues back to the source explosive; Using chemical synthesis and detection to validate formulations from forensics evidence of hydrogen peroxide based bomb threats in the UK; Using analytical instrumentation to detect drug and drug related residue on various substrates to follow trafficking in the UK; Using chemical analysis instrumentation to detect illicit drugs, link the drugs to the source, and develop deterrence methods for proliferation by counterfeit medicinal use in India. |
| Discussion Leader: John Reynolds (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Jim Ehleringer (University of Utah)
"Stable isotopes of explosives provide useful forensic information" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Sharon Broome (Defence Science Technology Laboratory)
"Explosive Trials conducted Following the London Bombings, July 2005" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Samantha Ollerton (Mass Spec Analytical Ltd.)
"Forensic Analysis of Exhibits for Illicit Drugs" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Sudhir Shukla (Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India)
"Curbing Narco-Terrorism: Indian Perspective" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | HUMANITARIAN DEMINING |
| The Humanitarian Demining (HD) Session will emphasize cheap, cost effective, wide area detection. It aims at providing overviews of the situation at the policy as well as at the end user level, to get the audience acquainted with the general picture and with the view from the field. This will be followed by technical resentations on selected topics such as recent results from explosive fate and transport studies and detection systems and/or components, as well as specific bulk explosive detection systems. This is expected to trigger discussions not only on individual methods and systems, but on the general status and future of (trace) explosive detection for HD applications as a whole. |
| Discussion Leader: Claudio Bruschini (CBR Scientific Consulting) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Noel Mulliner (UN Mine Action Service)
"Humanitarian Demining - technology requirements and other challenges" |
9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
9:35 am - 10:00 am | Kai-Uwe Goss (Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research)
"Influence of environmental conditions on the surface concentration of explosives above buried landmines" |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:10 am | Max Jones (GICHD)
"Remote Explosives Scent Tracing using Dogs" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:45 am | Kevin Morey (Colorado State University)
"Sentinel Plants" |
11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Jeffrey Morse (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"Crystal Driven Miniature Neutron Sources: A New Paradigm for Detection of Mines, IEDs, and Illicit Threat" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SYSTEMS APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION |
| Systems approaches and technology integration addresses how a novel detection concept can be translated into working a prototype device and ultimately how to incorporate this technology into an off-the shelf product. This session has two talks addressing how to move from concept to prototype to portable field device. The two other talks in this session address how to integrate the readings from different detection technologies into a data/decision fusion system with as goal is to boost the ultimate detection performance. |
| Discussion Leader: Mark Embrechts (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Major Paul Evangelista (US Military Academy)
"Data Fusion for Unbalanced Classification" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | David Kilgour (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory)
"A holistic systems approach to the development of portable detection systems" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Albert Redo-Sanchez (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Sensing explosive and related compounds with Terahertz technology: from laboratory demonstration to open field applications" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Sondre Skatter (GE Security)
"Cooperating Detection Systems: A Risk-Based Protocol for Distributed Sensor Fusion" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NEW CONCEPTS FOR DETECTION: EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
| This session will explore exciting areas of cutting edge research for detection that are beginning to emerge on the horizon. Science and technology areas being highlighted will include fusion of detection techniques to enhance data informational content, new technologies that enable detection at standoff distances, unique application of advanced medical technology to detection, the detection of alternative nonchemical signatures, and a deeper understanding of one of the most valued detection systems: the dog. This diverse and captivating session will likely be the highlight of the conference, as the application specific boundaries are cast aside and novel, "outside the box" research takes center stage. |
| Discussion Leader: Dave Atkinson (Pacific Northwest Laboratory) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Daryl Beetner (University of Missouri-Rolla)
"Detection of Electronic Devices" |
9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
9:35 am - 10:00 am | Gary Eiceman (New Mexico State University)
"DMS-IMS2 of Explosives" |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:10 am | Bob Kraus (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Functional Brain Imaging Technology for Explosives Detection" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:45 am | Erwan Normand (Cascade Technologies)
"Quantum Cascade Laser based screening Portal for Sub-second Detection of IED and their Precursors" |
11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Gary Settles (Penn State University)
"The Aerodynamics of Canine Olfaction" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SPECIAL SESSION INCLUDING PRIZE POSTERS |
| Discussion Leader: Lou Wasserzug (TSWG) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Amir Avidan (Government of Israel)
"How Policy Affects Security Procedures and Technology Implementation" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Timothy Swager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Materials for Explosives Detection: New Transduction and Amplification Methods" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Prize Poster Talk I |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Prize Poster Talk II |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Prize Poster Talk III |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Prize Poster Talk IV |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |