Fall Seminar Series - December 1, 2005
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
College of Liberal Arts
Deployment
Designs for Detecting Biological Releases
Nicolas Hengartner
Statistical Science Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thursday, December 1, 2005
3:30 PM, 115
Ford Hall
Minneapolis, East Bank Campus
Social at 3:00 PM, 300 Ford Hall
Abstract
Large
area biological air monitoring of metropolitan areas enables early
detection of terrorist biological releases. An important statistical
question is how best to deploy the air monitors over such a region we
want to protect. This talk discusses and compares spatial-temporal
sampling designs using either moving or fixed air-sampling units for
detecting the release of a biological pathogen into the atmosphere and
subsequently for mapping its evolution in space and time. While this
talk is motivated by problems in homeland security, the discussion and
methodology are more generally applicable to environmental air
monitoring.