UConn Slates Homeland Security Conference

STORRS — The University of Connecticut’s School of Engineering is organizing and hosting the International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Homeland Security September 25–26.

The School of Engineering’s goal is to provide a singular forum where attendees can understand technology and policy implications, investigate security technologies, network, and review funding opportunities in homeland security. Participants will explore the technical challenges involved in homeland security, how these challenges are being addressed, and how technology and policy interact.

The two-day conference will cover four major topic areas: recognition and identification, biological and chemical threat detection, the implementation of secure information systems and infrastructures, and the politics of homeland security policy.

Targeting a wide audience, including technology leaders, managers, policy makers, and business leaders, the program will feature Gov John G Rowland, Congressman Robert Simmons (R-2) and NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe. Also planned are panel discussions, keynoted and invited speakers, poster sessions, an industrial exhibition, and opportunities for networking. Speakers are drawn from the governmental sector as well as private industry, academia, and federal laboratories.

The registration cost is $100; deadline September 1.

For more information about conference attendance, submitting a poster paper or participating in the industrial exhibition, review the conference website at www.engr.uconn.edu/icaths/ or contact Laurie Enderle at 860-486-3295, or by email at icaths2003@engr.uconn.edu.