[Iefac.list] OSEEER Lecture: Vicki Bier (UWisc)

[David Mendonça]

We hope you will be able to attend the following seminar by Vicki Bier on 30 Apr 21 at 11:30a EDT:

"Modeling for Homeland Security and for Emergency Response and Prevention"
Register here: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_umFKHSms17VHtbDa8&d=DwIFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=Ue5eprQ_fMYcavWXDDYHbKQI0IFAmpjoy6QR5xcYCC4Qd5ukwoooDHsBFMkK-u0r&m=QEYcxqIk81O7P1v9sIi-SgvyTt_gTLbSEd8b0Nsk8fw&s=9G75P5KZMn93q_xVA3Zyk9z5tRAGxzcT9Dxar_lbtLY&e= 

Full info below.

Best,
David Mendonça, Laura Albert, Seth Guikema

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Date&Time: 30 April 2021 at 11:30am EDT
Location: Zoom (link to be sent on or before 29 April 2020)
Registration link: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_umFKHSms17VHtbDa8&d=DwIFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=Ue5eprQ_fMYcavWXDDYHbKQI0IFAmpjoy6QR5xcYCC4Qd5ukwoooDHsBFMkK-u0r&m=QEYcxqIk81O7P1v9sIi-SgvyTt_gTLbSEd8b0Nsk8fw&s=9G75P5KZMn93q_xVA3Zyk9z5tRAGxzcT9Dxar_lbtLY&e= 

Modeling for Homeland Security and for Emergency Response and Prevention

Vicki Bier
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
vicki.bier at wisc.edu

Abstract:
I will discuss lessons learned from several modeling efforts over the last 15-20 years.  From a project on emergency response ("Measuring and Achieving Equity in Multiperiod Emergency Material Allocation," 2019), I will discuss the process of model formulation, and how we eventually arrived at the approach that we took.  From a project on homeland security ("Optimal Resource Allocation for Defense of Targets Based on Differing Measures of Attractiveness," 2008), I will discuss how a model originally designed to investigate one issue (defender uncertainty about attacker goals) ended up yielding surprising results about a completely different issue (cost-effectiveness of defenses).  Finally, if time permits, I will discuss how seemingly unrelated interests (research on Fukushima and teaching on engineering economics) came together to initiate a new project related to climate change ("Game-theoretic Modeling of Pre-disaster Relocation, 2020).

About the speaker:
Dr. Vicki Bier recently retired from a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She has directed the Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis since 1995.  She has over 40 years of experience in risk analysis for the nuclear power, chemical, petrochemical, and aerospace industries, as well as homeland security and critical-infrastructure protection. Dr. Bier received the Women’s Achievement Award from the American Nuclear Society in 1993, and was elected a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis in 1996.  She is also a Past President of the Decision Analysis Society, and editor-in-chief of the society’s flagship journal, Decision Analysis.  

This seminar series is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1936967.