Date: Thursday 20 October 2011
Location: Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Swindon
Science and technology play an increasingly important role in equipping and supporting the armed forces. Mathematics is fundamental to these disciplines, providing a framework for understanding and solving the varied and complex problems faced. Mathematics and statistics are used to model military systems and scenarios. The information provided by mathematical models can be used to estimate system performance, suggest improvements or find weaknesses of real systems.
This conference brings together a wide variety of mathematical methods with defence and security applications. The conference programme will include keynote speakers, contributed presentations and poster sessions as well as refreshment breaks for informal discussions. It is intended for mathematicians, scientists and engineers from industry and academia, as well as government and military personnel who have an interest in how mathematics can be applied to defence problems.
This will be the second Mathematics in Defence conference; the first, held in 2009, was attended by over 160 delegates from a range of organisations including QinetiQ, Dstl, Thales, the IMA, the MoD, academic establishments and international parties. Click here for proceedings from the 2009 conference.
The conference will cover the following themes:
- Data analysis: data and text mining, data fusion, information visualization, multidimensional data analysis;
- Modelling and Estimation: electromagnetic models, estimation theory, Markov models, non-linear models, mathematical models, simulation;
- Operational Analysis: cost benefit analysis, counter-terrorism, risk management, intelligence analysis, behaviour analysis;
- Security: cryptography and coding, security systems, secure communications;
- Signal Processing: adaptive processing, computer vision, digital signal processing, distributed sensor processing, emitter location, image processing, signal enhancement, super-resolution, synthetic aperture radar, time series analysis;
- Statistical Methods: Bayesian techniques, classification, detection, identification, Markov models, Monte Carlo methods, particle filters, pattern recognition.
Invited Speakers
Dr Prabhat Vaze (MoD Head of Analysis & Director of the Defence Analytical Services and Advice, MoD)
Professor Richard Ormondroyd (Head of Communications and Wireless Group, Cranfield University).
Conference Papers
J. Barr, M. Williams, D. Nicholson
Reactive Data Gathering for Underwater Mine Countermeasures (pdf)
C. Clemente, J. J. Soraghan
On the Effect of Vibrating Targets in Bistatic SAR Images (pdf)
P.A Cotterill, C.P Walker, R. Harter and I.D. Abrahams
Sound Transmission through Gaps in Pressure Release Barriers (pdf)
M. Rollason
Three dimensional scene reconstruction from passive imagery (pdf)
S. Parker
Modelling contaminant transport in enclosed spaces – a state-space approach (pdf)
L. Marsh
Accelerated warning of a bioterrorist event or endemic disease outbreak (pdf)
A. Thompson
Compressive Single-Pixel Imaging (pdf)
C. Lloyd, S. Reece, S. Roberts, D. Nicholson
Hard/Soft Data Fusion using Gaussian Process Classifiers (pdf)
P. Grindrod CBE and D. Sloggett
From Grievance to Martyrdom: A Mathematical Perspective on the Journey of Radicalisation (pdf)
Posters
J. Anderson
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Effects of Transcomputation (pdf)
A. Balinsky, H. Balinsky and S. J. Simske
Rapid Change Detection and Text Mining (pdf)
N. T. Courtois, T. Mourouzis, D. Hulme
Solving Optimisation Problems in Cryptography, Its Implementation and Cryptanalysis (pdf)
N. J. Daras
Numerical Reconstruction of Noised Signals And Orthogonal Polynomials (pdf)
M. Dubois and E. Filiol
Proposition of an equations system for the AES (pdf)
D. N. Gkritzapis and E. E. Panagiotopoulos
Epicyclic motion analysis for API M8 bullet firing sidewise from a high subsonic air vehicle (pdf)
H. Janicke and A. Cau
Modelling Dynamically Changing Trust-Relationships in Ad Hoc Coalitions (pdf)
S. Kim, A. Tsourdos, and B. A. White
Behaviour Monitoring on Ground Vehicles by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (pdf)
R. Larham
Historical Data in Modelling Warships Battle Damage Survival Probability (pdf)
T. Pattenden
Mathematics of Societal Risk Assessment (pdf)
Y. Raja, S. Gong, T. Xiang
Multi-source data inference for object association (pdf)
M. Willerton and A. Manikas
Virtual Linear Array Modelling of a Planar Array (pdf)
Organising Committee
Chairperson: Anjna Kashyap (Dstl)
Deputy Chairperson: Jonathan Fairbairn (Dstl)
Technical Leaders: Richard Lane, David Byrne, David Salmond (QinetiQ); Edward Stansfield (Thales); Malcolm Walker (Dstl)
Organisation Team: Chris Freshwater, Ann Steptoe (Dstl); Lizzi Lake (IMA).
