Cascading Infrastructure Failures: Avoidance and Response

2007 Spring Research Symposium

2007 Symposium Tentative Schedule Wednesday, May 16, 2007 @ National Academy of Sciences (download the Event Brochure for updated Agenda)
8:00-8:30	Continental Breakfast (Registration and Networking)
8:30-8:50	Welcome and Symposium Introduction
8:50-9:15	Opening Address (Robert P. Crouch, Jr., Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, Virginia)
9:15-10:15	Keynote Speaker: Lieutenant General Russel L. Honore, United States Army (General Honore will be available briefly for questions from the media following his remarks.)
10:15-10:30	Break in the Great Hall
10:30-11:30	Panel One: Cascading Failure Examples and Case Studies Moderator: Harvey Ryland (CEO, Institute for Business and Home Safety) Brenton Greene (Northrop Grumman) John G. Kappenman (Director, Applied Power Division, Metatech Corp.) Laura Steinberg (Southern Methodist University) Laurence Zensinger (VP for Homeland Security, Dewberry)
11:30-11:45	Panel One: Audience Questions and Panel Responses
11:45-12:30	Lunch
12:30-1:30	Panel Two: Multiple Hazards and Vulnerable Intersections Moderator: Lt. Gen. Henry J. Hatch (Chairman, NRC Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Retired) Thomas Neighbors (SAIC) Paula Scalingi (Pacific Northwest Center for Regional Disaster Resilience and The Scalingi Group, LLC) Jim Caverly (Infrastructure Protection, DHS)
1:30-1:45	Panel Two: Audience Questions and Panel Responses
1:45-2:00	Break in the Great Hall
2:00-3:00	Panel Three: Cascading Failure Assessment and Modeling Moderator: Massoud Amin (HW Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, CDTL Director and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota) Duke Clark (General Atomics) Taz Daughtrey (James Madison University) Ira Kohlberg (Institute for Defense Analyses)
3:00-3:15	Panel Three: Audience Questions and Panel Responses
3:15-3:30	Break in the Great Hall
3:30-4:30	Panel Four: Cascading Failure Solutions Moderator: Rich Little (University of Southern California, Keston Institute) Rusty Lee (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) David Newman (Center for Complex Systems Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks) James Peerenboom (Infrastructure Assurance Center, Argonne National Laboratory)
4:30-4:45	Panel Four: Audience Questions and Panel Responses
4:45-5:00	Symposium Recap and Closing Remarks

2007 Homeland Security Symposium is co-sponsored by the

The Federal Facilities Council of the National Academies

and

Institute for Infrastructure & Information Assurance
at James Madison University

May 16, 2007

The National Academy of Sciences Building
2100 C Street, NW
Washington, DC