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Events for April 19, 2011
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CREATE Lecture by Marc Sageman
Tue, Apr 19, 2011 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Marc Sageman, Guest Speaker
Talk Title: Recent Trends in Global Neo-Jihadi Terrorism in the West
Series: CREATE Distinguished Speaker Series
Abstract: The lecture will touch on three topics:
⢠A survey of all the global neo-jihadi plots in the West since 9/11/01 in order to detect the emerging trends
⢠A summary of new insights in the process of turning to political violence coming from recent empirical research
⢠A summary of how the Internet is affected the evolution of the global neo-Jihadi threat in the West
The talk will conclude with the implication of the new developments in the Middle East on the global neo-Jihadi threat in the West.
PLEASE RSVP BY APRIL 12 TO:
www.usc.edu/esvp
Use code: CREATE
Biography: Marc Sageman is an independent researcher on terrorism and the founder of Sageman Consulting, LLC. He is now the special advisor to the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence on the âinsider threat.â He was the New York Police Departmentâs first âscholar in residenceâ and adjunct associate professor at the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is director of research at ARTIS.
After graduating from Harvard, he obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. After a tour as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1984. He spent a year on the Afghan Task Force then went to Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he ran U.S. unilateral programs with the Afghan Mujahedin. In 1991, he returned to medicine and completed a residency in psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1994, he has been in the private practice of forensic and clinical psychiatry, and taught law and psychiatry, the social psychology of terrorism, and mass murderers at the University of Pennsylvania.
After 9/11/01, he started building a terrorist database to test the validity of the conventional wisdom on terrorism. This research has been published as Understanding Terror Networks (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004). He continued this research, and showed how the global neo-jihadi terrorist threat to the West evolved over time. His book Leaderless Jihad describes how the process of radicalization in a hostile environment and enabled by the Internet is evolving into a disconnected network, a Leaderless Jihad. Since then, he has focused on the process of radicalization among young Western Muslims that lead them to political violence using transcripts of terrorism trials and personal interviews.
Sageman may be the only individual to have testified before both the 9/11 Commission in the U.S. and the Beslan Commission in Russia. He has extensively consulted with most national security agencies in the U.S., including the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the National Laboratories, the Department of Homeland Security, various agencies in the U.S. Intelligence Community, the U.S. Secret Service, and various other law enforcement agencies.
He has lectured at many U.S. universities, including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins University⦠and many universities abroad.
Host: CREATE
More Info: www.usc.edu/createLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 352
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kelly Buccola
Event Link: www.usc.edu/create
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Epstein Institute Seminar Series / ISE 650 Seminar
Tue, Apr 19, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. John W. Fowler, Avnet Professor of Supply Networks/Professor of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University
Talk Title: "Healthcare Systems Engineering"
Abstract: Modern industrial engineering, systems engineering, operations management, and operations research methods hold significant promise for health care systems and quality of care research. Among the most promising methods are optimization, queuing theory, and process simulation. This presentation will utilize some recent research efforts to demonstrate the application of industrial engineering and operations management principles and tools to improve health care systems.
Biography: JOHN W. FOWLER is the Avnet Professor of Supply Networks and a Professor of Industrial Engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). He currently serves as the Program Chair of Industrial Engineering. Professor Fowlerâs research interests include modeling, analysis, and control of manufacturing and service systems. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corp., International SEMATECH, Advanced Micro Devices, Amkor, Asyst, IBM, Intel, Infineon Technologies, Motorola, National Semiconductor, ST Microelectronics, and the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Fowler is an author/co-author of over 75 journal publications, 100 conference papers, and 10 book chapters. He is the founding editor of the new journal IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering. He is also an Area Editor for SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Simulation. He was a co-Program Chair for the 2002 and 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conferences and the Program Chair for the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference. Professor Fowler is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, a former INFORMS Vice President for Chapters/Fora, and is on the Winter Simulation Conference Board of Directors.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - Room 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
