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CREATE Seminar w/ Jason Merrick

Speaker: Jason R. W. Merrick, Virginia Commonwealth University

Talk Title: Attacker/Defender Modeling and the Global Nuclear Detection Network

Series: CREATE Monthly Seminar Series

Abstract: Counter-terrorism decisions have been an intense area of research in recent years. Both decision analysis and game theory have been used to model such decisions, and more recently approaches have been developed that combine the techniques of the two disciplines. In this talk, we review approaches for modeling attacker and defender decisions with applications to the global nuclear detection architecture. We discuss decision trees, sequential game trees, intelligent adversary risk analysis, and adversarial risk analysis. We extend this adversarial modeling to smuggling networks for radioactive material. We use this setting to discuss the influence of defender decisions on attacker decisions through deterrence and deflection.



Biography: Jason R. W. Merrick is a professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research at Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently a visiting professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He has a D.Sc. in operations research from the George Washington University and an MA in mathematics and computation from Oxford University. He teaches courses in decision analysis, risk analysis, and simulation. His research is primarily in the area of decision analysis and Bayesian statistics. He has worked on projects ranging from assessing maritime oil transportation and ferry system safety, the environmental health of watersheds, and optimal replacement policies for rail tracks and machine tools, and he has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security, the American Bureau of Shipping, British Petroleum, and Booz Allen Hamilton, among others. He has also performed training for Infineon Technologies, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and Capital One Services. He is associate editor for the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis, the Euro Journal on Decision Processes, and IIE Transactions, and formerly at Operations Research and Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation. Email: jrmerric@vcu.edu.

To ensure that I order your lunch, please RSVP to me no later than Monday, March 24th. Please advise if you require a vegetarian option. Hope to see you there!
Thank you,

Erin Pearson (Calicchio)
calicchi@usc.edu






Host: CREATE at USC

Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 306

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Erin Pearson (Calicchio)