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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: Gurvais Grigg - "Deconstructing Cybercrime Through Blockchain Forensics"
DESCRIPTION:Tune in on Wednesday\, August 31st at 12:00 p.m. when Gurvais Grigg\, Global Public Sector Chief Technology Officer at Chainanalysis\, Inc. will discuss “Deconstructing Cybercrime Through Blockchain Forensics”. \nThis presentation will outline trends in the illicit use of cryptocurrency and practical ways to incorporate this new asset class and solve cases. \nAbstract: Digital assets are impacting the 21st century financial landscape and global blockchain adoption is accelerating. Increasingly\, investigators are turning to blockchain analytics to solve complex financial crime cases and follow the money through cyberspace. To effectively meet this challenge\, today’s investigators are growing their crypto-literacy and equipping themselves with the right data and tools to accelerate their investigations. \nThe hybrid event which will take place virtually via Zoom as well as on the George Mason University\, Fairfax campus: Room 3301\, Exploratory Hall\, 10431 Rivanna River Way\, Fairfax\, VA 22030. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registering. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nGurvais C. Grigg is a recognized technology executive and thought leader with 28 years of public and private sector investigative and financial experience. As the Global Public Sector CTO for Chainalysis\, Gurvais is responsible for connecting global governments with the cryptocurrency industry and data they need to manage risks and conduct effective investigations. He served 23 years as a Special Agent and executive for the FBI conducting and leading criminal and national security investigations and building state-of-the-art operational and technical capabilities to identify and track suspected terrorists\, spies\, and criminals and their finances. Gurvais is an Eagle Scout and the recipient of numerous awards including the Presidential Rank Award and the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry with a minor in Spanish and a Masters in Homeland Security Management.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-gurvais-grigg-deconstructing-cybercrime-through-blockchain-forensics/
LOCATION:Room 3301\, Exploratory Hall\, Fairfax\, VA\, 10431 Rivanna River Way\, Fairfax\, Virginia\, 22030\, United States
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221106
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SUMMARY:Bring Down Counterfeiting 2022: Policy Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:Event Overview  \nRegistration is now open for the Bring Down Counterfeiting 2022: Policy Hackathon. \nThis event is sponsored by George Mason University’s Terrorism\, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC)\, Amazon\, the Criminal Investigations Network and Analysis Center\, and the National Crime Prevention Council. It is open to innovators of all abilities and skill sets.  \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nThe Hackathon will focus on policies and solutions to combat counterfeit products on e-commerce sites and the criminals that benefit from it. Counterfeiting is an industry-wide\, global issue\, that affects all retail channels. \nThose interested in public policy/governance\, international trade\, law enforcement and transnational crime\, computer science\, data science/analysis\, and AI/ML are encouraged to attend this event. \nTeams will compete for more than $20\,000 in prizes. Those that make it to the final round will be evaluated by an expert panel of judges. Bring a team or register on your own. Register today to attend the hackathon kick-off event on August 27\, 2022. Hackathon registration closes on October 7\, 2022. \nObjective \nThe goal of this policy hackathon is to provide input for a technology-focused follow up challenge. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts and mentors from law enforcement\, tech and retail industries\, academia\, government and\, of course\, Amazon. \nTo learn more and get event details visit: https://expeditionhacks.com/counterfeiting/?mc_cid=de39da8ea1&mc_eid=bcdb507c23
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/bring-down-counterfeiting-2022-policy-hackathon/
LOCATION:Virtual (Slack)
CATEGORIES:Hackathon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220816T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220816T170000
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SUMMARY:CINA Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, September 7 at 2:00 p.m. EDT for an information session led by CINA Director Jim Jones. The session will offer insight into CINA’s ongoing research and its benefits to DHS and the university\, including past and future events\, outreach activities\, and collaborative opportunities.  \nThis is a hybrid event which will take place virtually via Zoom as well as on the George Mason University\, Fairfax campus: Room 3301\, Exploratory Hall\, 10431 Rivanna River Way\, Fairfax\, VA 22030. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registering. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-information-session-2/
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220228
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T174553Z
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SUMMARY:COE Design Challenge Hackathon:  Countering Emerging Threats to Critical Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Event Overview  \nRegistration is now open for the first joint DHS Center of Excellence (COE) design challenge hackathon. CINA is partnering with the Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE) at Arizona State University who is leading this three-day virtual event. During the event students will work in teams to solve real-life problem scenarios related to infrastructure risks and emerging threats. Participants will receive mentoring assistance available from critical infrastructure experts representing academia\, industry\, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. \nCINA seeks to sponsor innovative students with an interest in solving homeland security challenges from our COE partner universities. Mason students and CINA MSI partner universities will collaborate with teams from: Arizona State University (CAOE)\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (CIRI)\, Stevens Institute of Technology (MSC) and University of Nebraska at Omaha (NCITE) are invited to participate. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nObjective \nThe goal of the design challenge hackathon is to support the educational mission of the COEs\, exposing more students to real-world homeland security issues in an effort to increase interest in pursuing careers at DHS and across the homeland security enterprise. \n  \nTo learn more and get event details visit: https://caoe.asu.edu/news/design-challenge-hackathon-critical-infrastructure-now-open-student-registration-february-25
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/coehackfeb2022/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Hackathon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: Jay Kennedy - "The Future of Counterfeiting"
DESCRIPTION:Tune in on Thursday\, February 17 at 12:00 p.m. when Jay Kennedy\, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University will discuss “The Future of Counterfeiting:\nShifting Patterns in Enforcement\, Opportunity Structures and Consumer Engagement”. \nIn this presentation Dr. Kennedy will discuss: \n\nThe value and importance of public-private collaboration in addressing counterfeiting risks for consumers\nThe shifting dynamics of e-commerce and social commerce and how consumers are responding;\nEmerging socio-technical changes that are impacting counterfeiting schemes and consumer complicity\nThe impact of global supply/manufacturing developments (supply chain shortages\, Free Trade Zones) on global counterfeiting schemes.\n\nDr. Kennedy is actively involved in research\, education\, and outreach efforts that focus on external partners including corporations\, industry associations\, and law enforcement agencies. \nThis event will be completely virtual. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nDr. Jay P. Kennedy is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University\, jointly appointed to the School of Criminal Justice and the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection where serves the Assistant Director of Research. He is a Faculty Affiliate with the Michigan State University Graduate School\, and an Affiliated Faculty member with the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research\, the Center for Business and Social Analytics\, and the Canadian Studies Center. Dr. Kennedy’s current research explores managerial and organizational responses to employee theft within small and medium enterprises and the sale of counterfeit goods on the Internet through social media and e-commerce. His work has been published in a number of outlets\, including Criminology and Public Policy\, American Behavioral Scientist\, Maritime Economics and Logistics\, Criminal Justice Review\, Journal of Crime and Justice\, Journal of Financial Crime\,Security Journal\, and Victims and Offenders. He is currently serving as an elected board member of the American Society of Criminology’s Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime and is an editorial board member for the Journal of White-Collar and Corporate Crime and the International Journal of Cybercrime Intelligence and Cybersecurity.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-jay-kennedy-anti-counterfeiting-and-product-protection/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220111T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20210921T181727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T182815Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: Lindsey Roberson\, Human Trafficking Institute
DESCRIPTION:Tune in on Tuesday\, January 11 at 12:00 p.m. when Lindsey Roberson\, Executive Director of Legal Engagement at the Human Trafficking Institute speaks about her organization’s work in developing and advocating for innovative and data-driven strategies for combatting human trafficking based on proven victim-centered enforcement models. \nThis is a completely virtual event. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nLindsey Roberson oversees HTI’s Country Programs prosecution efforts in Uganda and Belize\, where she focuses on increasing the specialized knowledge of prosecutors and other criminal justice practitioners handling human trafficking cases. Lindsey also leads HTI’s Thought Leadership team\, which develops and advocates for innovative and data-driven strategies for combatting human trafficking based on proven victim-centered enforcement models. Lindsey is an experienced federal and state prosecutor\, with over a decade of anti-trafficking litigation experience. Most recently she served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit\, a component of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division which focuses on enforcing the federal laws that prohibit forced labor and sex trafficking in the United States. Before her work as a federal prosecutor\, Lindsey served as an assistant district attorney in North Carolina\, where she prosecuted some of the first sex trafficking cases to conviction and drafted the state’s Safe Harbor Act for Victims of Sex Trafficking. Lindsey is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Law and served as a law clerk to the Honorable James C. Fox for the Eastern District of North Carolina following graduation.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-lindsey-roberson-human-trafficking-institute/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20210830T205237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T141848Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Marie Tillyer “Place-Based Improvements for Public Safety: Public Regulation\, Private Investment\, and Changes in Crime at Micro-places Across 6 US Cities"
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 12 at 11:30 a.m. when Dr. Marie Tillyer\, Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio discusses place-based improvements for public safety: Public regulation\, private investment\, and changes in crime at micro-places across 6 US cities. This event will be completely virtual.\n  \nREGISTER NOW \n \nResearch on spatiotemporal crime patterns reveals that crime is concentrated at relatively few micro-places (e.g.\, addresses\, intersections\, street segments)\, it tends to be stable over time\, and changes at a small proportion of micro-places can have a considerable effect on a city’s overall crime level. These findings have prompted calls for targeted place-based interventions to efficiently allocate scarce prevention resources.  This presentation uses data from six unique urban landscapes (Chicago\, Los Angeles\, New York City\, Philadelphia\, San Antonio\, and Seattle) to explore spatiotemporal crime patterns.  Specifically\, we examine the relationship between two mechanisms for place-based improvements – public regulation in the form of municipal code enforcement and private investment in the form of building permits – and changes in crime at street segments over time.  The findings highlight how non-criminal justice policies\, such as incentivizing targeted private investment and prioritizing code enforcement at crime hot spots\, might be strategically implemented to enhance public safety. \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nMarie Skubak Tillyer\, who serves as Principal Investigator on the project\, is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has published over 40 peer reviewed journal articles\, with a focus on violence\, victimization\, and the spatial distribution of crime. She is co-author of School Zone: A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization (forthcoming\, Temple University Press)\, a place-focused analysis of crime involving adolescents in schools\, and current Co-Principal Investigator on a prospective\, longitudinal study funded by the National Institute of Justice examining the cumulative financial costs of victimization among college students at minority serving institutions.  In addition\, her past applied research has examined community supervision outcomes\, violence reduction\, crime analysis\, and human trafficking.  Much of her research is informed by an environmental criminological perspective that examines crime events and the immediate spatiotemporal circumstances in which they occur. Her collaborations with Drs. Walter and Acolin\, the project Co-Principal Investigators\, have led her to apply this perspective to studying crime across various geographical units\, including low-income housing developments\, businesses\, street blocks\, and street segments.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-marie-tillyer-open-source-data-and-predictive-modeling-for-high-density-crime-areas/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20210830T193620Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: Gretchen Peters “How Organized Crime Weaponized Social Media"
DESCRIPTION:Tune in on Wednesday\, October 13 at 12:00 p.m. when Gretchen Peters\, Executive Director of The Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime who will speak about her organization’s work on the way organized crime has weaponized social media. In-person attendance is on a first come first serve basis. You must register in advance to attend.\n  \nREGISTER NOW \n \nThe in-person event will take place at the George Mason University\, Fairfax campus: Room 3301\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA 22030 \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nGretchen Peters is the Executive Director of The Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime (CINTOC). She has served as a consultant to the U.S. Defense Department and U.S. law enforcement on transnational organized crime and co-chaired an OECD Task Force on fighting wildlife crime. Her expertise is in researching and mapping transnational organized crime networks\, working with U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command among others. Gretchen authored the groundbreaking book\, Seeds of Terror\, about the Taliban’s role in the Afghan heroin trade. She has also written various chapters in leading academic books about the intersection of crime and conflict.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-gretchen-peters-how-organized-crime-weaponized-social-media/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Fairfax Campus\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210414T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20210112T184956Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Jeffrey Hardy "Illicit Trade in the Forms of Trademark Counterfeiting and Copyright Piracy"
DESCRIPTION:From smuggling\, counterfeiting and tax evasion\, to the trafficking of humans and wildlife\, illicit trade holds back progress\, increases costs and pushes the goals further away. While data on this clandestine activity has previously been scarce\, there is mounting evidence of the economic\, social and environmental losses it can cause.  \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nJeffrey Hardy is the Director-General of the Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade\, where he manages a unique multi-sector business approach to combatting illicit trade. Before joining TRACIT\, he served as the Director of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP)\, where he united the global business community to fight illicit trade in the forms of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. From 2010-2017\, he also served as Director of the ICC G20 CEO Advisory Group\, where he coordinated international business priorities on the G20 policy agenda related to trade\, investment and anti-corruption. Jeff has long been an advocate for open and fair trade\, and to achieve these goals he mobilizes expertise from companies and business organizations. \nAs President of IDA Consulting\, Jeff has worked with dozens of international trade associations to help them more effectively navigate key policy arenas and gain from emerging legislative and regulatory regimes. \nFrom 1985 to 1998\, Jeff worked for the U.S. Department of Energy\, where he held positions as International Energy Economist and Director of the U.S. Clean Cities program. He holds a Master of Public Administration and Policy from George Mason University\, a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Illinois State University and an Honorary Degree for Energy Policy from the Oxford College of Petroleum Studies. In 1992\, he was awarded the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Silver Medal for his meritorious service during the Gulf War. \nContact: \nJeff.Hardy@TRACIT.org \n+1.239.935.9839
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-jeffrey-hardy-illicit-trade-in-the-forms-of-trademark-counterfeiting-and-copyright-piracy/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T143000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20210301T214533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210308T170302Z
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SUMMARY:Cyber Extremism and Violence in a Hyperconnected World
DESCRIPTION:Cyberspace content and interactions have emerged as a breeding ground for the spread\, or even birth of extremism and violence. From the large-scale spreading of authority-undermining or divisive misinformation\, to the recruitment of terrorists or gang members\, to the planning of extremist activities\, we are increasingly observing the growth of a cyberphysical nexus of extremism. Within this dynamic connection\, extremist ideas spill over from cyberspace to the real world\, leading to violence and increasingly complex threats to homeland security.\n  \nREGISTER NOW \n \nIn this event we bring together leading academic experts to discuss this catalyst of extremism and violence\, aiming at advancing our ability to identify and monitor such activities across the cyberphysical spectrum. Panel discussions are followed by breakout sessions to identify relevant research priorities. \nView the agenda \n  \nKeynote Speaker\n \n  \nJohn Picarelli\, Director\, Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention at U.S. Department of Homeland Security \n\n\nModerators\n \n  \n  \nWilliam Braniff\, Director\, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)\, University of Maryland \n  \n \n  \n\nGina Scott Ligon\, Program Director\, National Counterterrorism Innovation\, Technology\, and Education Center (NCITE)\, University of Nebraska Omaha \n\n  \n  \n\n \n\n  \n  \n\nAnthony Stefanidis\, Professor of Computer Science\, College of William & Mary \n\n\n  \nSpeakers\n \n  \n  \nAudrey Alexander\, Instructor\, Combating Terrorism Center\, West Point \n  \n  \n \n  \nTerry Gudaitis\, Director of the Intelligence Studies Program\, Department of Criminology\, Law and Society\, George Mason University \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nNicolás Velasquez Hernandez\, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist\, Institute for Data\, Democracy & Politics\, George Washington University \n  \n\n\n  \nSeamus Hughes\, Deputy Director\, Program on Extremism\, George Washington University \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nSheehan Kane\, Researcher/Data Collection Manager\, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)\, University of Maryland \n  \n \n  \n  \nJillian Peterson\, Associate Professor – Criminal Justice\, Hamline University \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cyber-extremism-and-violence-in-a-hyperconnected-world/
LOCATION:Virtual (WebEx)
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20210112T184511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T184627Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Diana Dolliver "Cryptocurrencies and Criminal Investigations: From Transaction to Seizure"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will cover the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies\, transactions\, and blockchain technologies\, and how this form of currency can be used to facilitate criminal activity. Dr. Dolliver will explain how cryptocurrencies can be obtained and stored\, how transactions can be traced\, and how these assets can be potentially seized by law enforcement officials through legal processes and the use of digital forensic evidence. Dr. Dolliver will also cover the methods criminals take to obfuscate transactions to hide their activities and avoid attribution\, as well as discussing best practices for law enforcement agencies when handling cryptocurrencies. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nDr. Diana Dolliver is a cyber criminologist and policing scholar at the University of Alabama and serves as a Task Force Officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the Cyber Squad. Dr. Dolliver has an active TS/SCI national security clearance and her areas of expertise include darknet-based criminality\, cryptocurrency transaction analysis\, and digital forensics. Dr. Dolliver also studies matters of national security and cybersecurity and warfare. She is a certified Chainalysis Investigation Specialist and holds multiple other certifications in cryptocurrency transaction analysis\, mobile device forensics\, and vehicle forensics.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-diana-dolliver-cryptocurrencies-and-criminal-investigations-from-transaction-to-seizure/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210217T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20201216T191029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T184600Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Celina Realuyo “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy\, Security and Transnational Organized Crime in the Americas”
DESCRIPTION:Latin America and the Caribbean have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic that will have a detrimental impact on the health\, economy\, budgets and security of the region. Prior to the pandemic\, Latin America and the Caribbean were already facing slow growth\, indebtedness\, inequality\, inadequate healthcare\, corruption\, transnational organized crime\, migration crises and social protests. Governments will be hard pressed to provide and finance the services necessary for the medical and socio-economic recovery from the pandemic. Meanwhile\, transnational criminal organizations will capitalize on governments’ preoccupation with COVID-19 to diversify and expand their activities that will likely result in more violence\, instability and challenges to governance throughout the Americas. The U.S. must strive to remain the “partner of choice” in region by bolstering efforts to assist its neighbors in promoting health\, prosperity and security in the Hemisphere during the pandemic and beyond. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nCelina Realuyo is Professor of Practice at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University where she focuses on US national security\, illicit networks\, transnational organized crime\, counterterrorism and threat finance issues in the Americas. As a former US diplomat\, international banker with Goldman Sachs\, US counterterrorism official\, and professor of international security affairs at the National Defense\, Georgetown\, George Washington\, and Joint Special Operations Universities\, Professor Realuyo has over two decades of international experience in the public\, private\, and academic sectors. She speaks regularly in English and Spanish on “Managing US National Security in 21st Century\,” “The 3 R’s: Responding to Risk with Resourcefulness\,” “Following the Money Trail to Combat Terrorism\, Crime\, and Corruption\,” and “Combating the Convergence of Illicit Networks in an Age of Globalization.” Professor Realuyo is a regular commentator in the international media\, including CNN en Español\, Deutsche Welle\, Foreign Policy\, Reuters\, and Univisión and has testified before Congress on national security\, terrorism\, and crime issues. \nThroughout her career\, Professor Realuyo has been a trusted strategic advisor to the most senior leaders in US government\, military\, business\, and academic circles on international issues. As a professor of national security at the National Defense University since 2007\, she has educated top US and foreign military and civilian leaders. From 2002-2006\, Professor Realuyo served as the State Department Director of Counterterrorism Finance Programs in the US Secretary of State’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism in Washington\, DC In the wake of the September 11\, 2001 attacks\, she returned to government service to apply her international banking skills to the financial front of the war on terror. She co-chaired the Terrorist Financing Working Group and managed a multi-million dollar foreign assistance program to safeguard financial systems against terrorist financing. Under her stewardship\, the US delivered training and technical assistance to over 20 countries across four continents (including Afghanistan\, Indonesia\, Iraq\, Pakistan\, and Saudi Arabia\, for over 1800 foreign counterparts\, and her team received an “A-” from the 9/11 Commission for their efforts to combat terrorist financing in 2005. Prior to returning to Washington\, Professor Realuyo was a private banker in London with Goldman Sachs International providing strategic wealth advisory services to the most prominent families in the world. Previously\, she had a distinguished career as a US Foreign Service Officer serving as a political officer abroad in Madrid\, Panama\, and the US Mission to NATO\, Brussels. In Washington\, she served at the highest levels of government\, in the State Department Operations Center\, National Security Council’s White House Situation Room\, and as Special Assistant to the Secretary of State. \nProfessor Realuyo is a graduate the Harvard Business School\, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)\, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service\, and holds a Certificate from l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris\, France. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, International Institute for Strategic Studies\, and Women in International Security. Professor Realuyo has traveled to over 70 countries and speaks English\, French\, and Spanish fluently\, and is conversant in Italian\, German\, Filipino\, and Arabic.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-celina-realuyo-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-economy-security-and-transnational-organized-crime-in-the-americas/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy\, Security and Transnational Organized Crime in the Americas” with Celina Realuyo
DESCRIPTION:Join Celina Realuyo\, Professor of Practice\, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies\, National Defense University for an indepth discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on the economy\, security and transnational organized crime in the Americas.\n \n \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography:  \nCelina Realuyo is Professor of Practice at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University where she focuses on US national security\, illicit networks\, transnational organized crime\, counterterrorism and threat finance issues in the Americas. As a former US diplomat\, international banker with Goldman Sachs\, US counterterrorism official\, and professor of international security affairs at the National Defense\, Georgetown\, George Washington\, and Joint Special Operations Universities\, Professor Realuyo has over two decades of international experience in the public\, private\, and academic sectors. She speaks regularly in English and Spanish on “Managing US National Security in 21st Century\,” “The 3 R’s: Responding to Risk with Resourcefulness\,” “Following the Money Trail to Combat Terrorism\, Crime\, and Corruption\,” and “Combating the Convergence of Illicit Networks in an Age of Globalization.”  \nProfessor Realuyo is a regular commentator in the international media\, including CNN en Español\, Deutsche Welle\, Foreign Policy\, Reuters\, and Univisión and has testified before Congress on national security\, terrorism\, and crime issues. Read more about her background.  \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-economy-security-and-transnational-organized-crime-in-the-americas-with-celina-realuyo/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210109
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
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SUMMARY:COVID-19 Vaccine Workshops
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/covid-19-vaccine-workshops/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20200803T152900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T184623Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Martin Bouchard “Social Outlaws: What Network Data Tells Us About Gangs”
DESCRIPTION:Over the past 20 years\, social network analysis (SNA) has transformed our conceptualization of crime and delinquency. Criminological theories that place the social factor front and center can now be tested with better data and measures\, providing a more sophisticated demonstration of the mechanisms involved. Yet\, the impact of SNA has arguably been felt the strongest in the field of gangs and organized crime\, the focus of this talk. After all\, gangs are a prime example of cooperative behavior under stressful conditions. The higher stakes involved in many gang crimes\, and the requirement for continuity imply a higher need for secrecy and trust in one’s associates as a driver of action. The talk focuses on four lessons learned on gangs and networks\, formulated as testable empirical statements: 1) Gang boundaries are messy but best measured via networks; 2) Gang members routinely work and interact with non-members. Yet\, for high stakes crime\, members select their own; 3) Gang cohesion matters for survival. Smaller gangs benefit from outside alliances while larger gangs benefit from keeping ties within; 4) Social networks are the strongest predictors of gang violence. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography:  \nMartin Bouchard is a Professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University\, where he leads the Crime and Illicit Networks Laboratory. Dr. Bouchard’s research focuses on the dynamics of illicit markets\, as well as the role of social networks in a variety of criminal phenomena\, including street gangs and organized crime. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these topics over the last 15 years. He received the 2013 SFU Dean of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision\, and he is the 2018-2019 recipient of the WSC Fellows Award for individuals associated with the Western region who have made important contributions to the field of criminology. Dr. Bouchard has a long track record of successful collaborations with law enforcement agencies\, most notably in facilitating the integration of network methods in criminal intelligence analysis. Current projects focus on the use of network methods for gang violence reduction. \nPersonal website: mbcriminology.com \nTwitter: @MBouchardCrim
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/save-the-date-virtual-cina-distinguished-speaker-series-martin-bouchard-social-outlaws-what-network-data-tell-us-about-gangs/
LOCATION:Virtual (WebEx)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201014T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20200803T151603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200921T171302Z
UID:2217-1602676800-1602682200@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: "Transaction Laundering and the Facilitation of Cybercrime Through the Online Payment Ecosystem" - LegitScript - Lilly Richardson & Jenny Mosbacher
DESCRIPTION:As e-commerce continues to expand\, credit card transactions have increasingly become a conduit for money laundering. This presentation will highlight how criminal organizations circumvent the payments and banking ecosystem’s risk and compliance controls by setting up fake online businesses and storefronts to covertly process payments for illegal activity. This practice\, known as transaction laundering\, can be challenging to detect when done proficiently. The presenters will share their research on transaction laundering typologies\, including the ways in which launderers hedge their risk and alter strategies over time. The presentation will also review the advantages and limitations of detection methods such as business model risk analysis and internet infrastructure mapping. \nREGISTER NOW \nSpeaker Biographies:\n\nJenny Mosbacher is a Program Manager at LegitScript\, overseeing investigations teams that specialize in transaction laundering detection. During her five years at LegitScript\, Jenny has mapped out online criminal networks\, investigated the payment infrastructure supporting them\, and developed systems to proactively identify transaction laundering. \n  \n  \nLilly Richardson (CAMS) is a Program Manager at LegitScript\, managing an e-commerce merchant risk analysis and transaction laundering detection team. With a background in sanctions and anti-money laundering investigations\, Lilly focuses on the intersection of cybercrime and money laundering. At LegitScript\, Lilly spent several years researching cybercrime networks as an investigative analyst. \n  \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/save-the-date-cina-distinguished-speaker-series-melissa-sutherland/
LOCATION:Virtual (WebEx)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200918T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20200828T205217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T165128Z
UID:2271-1600430400-1600435800@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:Beyond 9/11 - “Homeland Security and Transnational Crime” Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to “secure the homeland” in the twenty-first century? During this event\, leading experts will provide strategic lessons and crucial recommendations for the future of homeland security. Join us for a panel discussion about the place of counter-terrorism in the homeland security enterprise\, the management of transnational crime\, confronting cyber and other threats to our infrastructure\, and the challenge of weapons of mass destruction.\n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nThe event panelists authored the recently released book Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century\, in which leading academic experts and former senior government officials address the most salient challenges including counterterrorism\, cybersecurity\, critical infrastructure protection; border security and immigration; transportation security; emergency management; combating transnational crime; protecting privacy in a world of intrusive government scrutiny; and managing the sprawling homeland security bureaucracy. \nMeet the Moderator \n \n\nLouise Shelley\nOmer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair and a University Professor at George Mason University\nRead her biography\n  \n  \nMeet the Panelists \nAlan Bersin: “What’s Wrong with the Conventional Law Enforcement Model”\nSenior Fellow\, Belfer Center\, Harvard Kennedy School\nGlobal Fellow\, Wilson Center\nRead his biography\n  \n\nCaitlin Durkovich: “Securing Critical Infrastructure from Asymmetric Threats”\nDirector\, Toffler Associates\nRead her biography\n  \n\n\nSeth Stodder: “Law Enforcement Targeting: Finding the Criminal Needle in the Legal Haystack”\nPartner at Holland & Knight\nLecturer in Law\, USC\, Gould School of Law\nRead his biography\n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/homeland-security-and-transnational-crime-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20200820T193001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200821T190430Z
UID:2250-1600257600-1600263000@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: “Finding Trafficking Networks in Online Commercial Sex Ads” with Crysta Price\, HTI Labs\, Creighton University
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about human trafficking\, including a case walkthrough that describes how data analytics\, AI\, and collaboration with law enforcement agencies led to the dismantling of a large international sex trafficking organization. \nREGISTER NOW \nSpeaker Biography:  \nCrysta Price\, the founder of HTI Labs\, a company using data science to unmask trafficking networks\, will discuss the origins of her company and the ecosystem of products that she is developing to counter human trafficking. She will discuss her basic approach as well as some of the tools used in these products and conclude with a discussion of the support HTI Labs provided to Operation Extended Stay\, an HSI investigation resulting in the dismantling of the largest international commercial sex network operating in the United States. \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-crysta-price-finding-trafficking-networks-in-online-commercial-sex-ads/
LOCATION:Virtual (WebEx)
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200514T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200514T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20200416T165902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200417T173948Z
UID:1813-1589457600-1589463000@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series- Jodi Quas: Enhancing Disclosures in Victims of Sex Trafficking: Science Guiding Solutions
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. \nThe CINA Distinguished Speaker Series invites leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us for a discussion about disclosure reluctance in sex trafficking victims\, including research about methods that can increase interview findings and support law enforcement efforts to help victims and identify perpetrators. \nEnhancing Disclosures in Victims of Sex Trafficking: Science Guiding Solutions \nAbstract \nDespite growing recognition of the prevalence and consequences of sex trafficking\, efforts to intervene on behalf of victims and prosecute perpetrators remain challenging\, in large part due to difficulties identifying victims. They rarely disclose their experiences or reveal the identity of perpetrators. Trafficking instead is often discovered indirectly during victims’ encounters with professionals\, including law enforcement\, who may suspect trafficking and must then question the victims to obtain details about their experiences\, needs\, and perpetrators. In this presentation\, I will discuss disclosure reluctance and evasiveness in suspected victims of sex trafficking and the challenges faced by law enforcement when questioning these victims. I will then describe larger bodies of research concerning disclosure in other vulnerable populations\, including child victims of sexual abuse victims and juvenile offenders\, focusing primarily on research concerning methods of increasing these populations’ reporting accuracy and completeness. Findings provides a crucial foundation for recommendation regarding effective interviewing approaches for suspected trafficking victims. Increasing their disclosures will significantly improve identification and intervention efforts for victims and prosecution of perpetrators. \nPresenter Biography \nJodi Quas\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of Psychological Science in the Interdisciplinary School of Social Ecology at the University of California\, Irvine. She is internationally recognized for her work on children’s eyewitness capabilities\, abuse disclosure\, and consequences of legal involvement on child victims\, witnesses\, and defendants. She has received numerous awards for her work\, including the Scientific Early Career Contributions in Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association\, and the Nicholas Hobbs Award for Career Contributions from the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice. She is dedicated not only to pursuing rigorous science on crucial topics relevant to identifying and intervening on behalf of victimized children\, but also to disseminating findings to diverse audiences. She conducts workshops for law enforcement\, legal professionals\, educators\, and social service professionals in the U.S. and abroad. As a Fulbright Specialist\, she worked in Asunción Paraguay training academic and medical professionals\, government agencies\, non-profit organizations\, and the public on the consequences of maltreatment on children\, families\, and communities\, and on improved methods of identifying and protecting victimized children. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/virtual-cina-distinguished-speaker-series-jodi-quas-enhancing-disclosures-in-victims-of-sex-trafficking-science-guiding-solutions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20200410T174317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200410T175204Z
UID:1807-1588248000-1588253400@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series- Padhu Seshaiyer: Computational Mathematics for Solving Global Challenges Involving Criminal Activities
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. \nThe CINA Distinguished Speaker Series invites leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us for a discussion about the dynamics of criminal activities\, and how computational mathematics can help understand and solve challenges related to this complex\, real-world problem. \nComputational Mathematics for Solving Global Challenges Involving Criminal Activities \nAbstract \nComputational mathematics\, which comprises of modeling\, analysis\, simulation and computing have become the foundation for solving most global challenges. Some examples of these global challenges involving criminal activities include understanding dynamics of gang-behavior\, stopping drug abuse and addiction that often leads to crimes\, social dynamics of human trafficking\, tracking poaching to stop illicit ivory trading and cybercrimes including computer virus transmission.  These real-world problems involve complex dynamic interactions and often present a significant challenge\, both in modeling of the physical problem as well as in handling the coupled interactions. If the desire to control and prediction is added\, then the complexity increases even further. In this talk\, we will present a few multidisciplinary approaches using computational mathematics that provides an in-depth understanding of the underlying physical phenomenon. \n  \nPresenter Bio \nDr. Padhu Seshaiyer is a Professor of Mathematical Sciences and currently serves as an Associate Dean for the College of Science at George Mason University\, Virginia. His research interests are in the broad areas of computational mathematics\, scientific computing\, computational biomechanics\, STEM education\, UN Sustainable Development Goals and entrepreneurship. During the last decade\, he has initiated and directed a variety of educational programs including faculty development\, post-graduate\, graduate and undergraduate research\, K-12 outreach\, teacher professional development\, and enrichment programs to foster the interest of students and teachers in STEM at all levels. He is also actively involved in multiple global STEM collaborative research projects and training programs that engage students\, teachers and faculty from over 20 countries. He has won several prestigious awards for his contributions to teaching and research. From 2015 – 2017\, he served as a Program Director for the Computational Mathematics program at the National Science Foundation. In April 2019\, he was selected as one of the “Figures that Matter” for his contributions to Academia and Society and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Vrije Universiteit Brussel. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/virtual-cina-distinguished-speaker-series-padhu-seshaiyer-computational-mathematics-for-solving-global-challenges-involving-criminal-activities/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20190829T162725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200506T010841Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series- Siddharth Chandra: Using Economic Principles to Identify and Understand Drug Trafficking Networks
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. \nThe CINA Distinguished Speaker Series invites leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us for a discussion about drug trafficking\, and learn how economic data can provide insights into the flow and operations of illicit drug markets and networks. \nUsing Economic Principles to Identify and Understand Drug Trafficking Networks \n\n\n\nAbstract \nNetworks through which drugs are trafficked are in many ways similar to networks for legal goods. As such\, they are governed by the same economic principles that govern networks for legal goods. This project explores ways in which economic principles can be used to identify networks for illicit drugs using economic data. The information inherent in data on the prices\, seizures\, or purity of illicit drugs can be extracted to provide information about drug flows. Complementary methods such as network analysis can convert this information into insights about drug markets and networks\, which can inform law enforcement efforts and policies. To the extent that drug trafficking networks overlap with or are similar to networks for human\, wildlife\, or arms trafficking\, the methods and insights of this project may also be applicable to these overlapping or similar illicit networks. \nPresenter Biography \n\n\n\nDr. Chandra is the director of the Asian Studies Center and  Professor of Economics at the James Madison College at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University\, A.M. (Ph.D. pass) in economics from the University of Chicago\, and B.A. (with honors) in economics from Brandeis University. Prior to joining Michigan State University\, Dr. Chandra was Director of the Asian Studies Center and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include the study of markets\, behavior\, and policy relating to psychoactive substances\, the 1918 influenza pandemic and lessons for modern pandemics\, and case studies of mass violence and genocide. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-6/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Fairfax Campus\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200515
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20200410T194922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200416T191113Z
UID:1808-1587600000-1589500799@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series - April and May 2020
DESCRIPTION:Please click here to register and get more information about the April 23rd speaker series event with Siddharth Chandra (Using Economic Principles to Identify and Understand Drug Trafficking Networks). \nPlease click here to register and get more information about the April 30th speaker series event with Padhu Seshaiyer (Computational Mathematics for Solving Global Challenges Involving Criminal Activities). \nPlease click here to register and get more information about the May 14th speaker series event with Jodi Quas (Enhancing Disclosures in Victims of Sex Trafficking: Science Guiding Solutions). \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/virtual-cina-distinguished-speaker-series-april-and-may-2020/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200330
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20200320T174009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200320T174224Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Hackathon to Combat Human Trafficking: March 28-29\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:The CINA Center is collaborating with Blue Compass and the TraCCC Center at George Mason University to offer a virtual hackathon to combat child sexual exploitation and labor trafficking. Bring your collaborative energy and new ideas on March 28-29\, 2020 to see what your team can hack together! \n**In light of increasing concerns regarding the imminent spread of COVID-19 in the Washington\, DC metropolitan area\, George Mason University is taking a number of precautionary measures to limit exposure and minimize risk. In accordance with CDC and WHO recommendations to limit face to face interaction\, this event will now be held completely remotely utilizing many collaboration tools.** \nWhen: Saturday\, March 28\, 2020 9:00 am thru Sunday\, March 29\, 2020 6:00 pm (including overnight work) \nRegister: https://expeditionhacks.com/combating-human-trafficking-2020/ \nDiscount code: GeorgeMason \nGrand Prize: $3\,000 plus cash and other prizes for students and first time hackers. Participant resumes will be collected and shared with recruiters and researchers. \nIt is not necessary to be an expert on human trafficking or technology to participate. This event is open to the public\, and George Mason University students are especially encouraged to compete. Register as an individual or a team. \nREGISTER HERE \nWhy should we be inspired to do something? Human trafficking is a global enterprise\, second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable criminal business. It disproportionately affects women and minors\, exploiting lives through deception\, coercion and fear. Experts report the proliferation of child sexual exploitation material– with a record 45 million images flagged last year alone- in online environments that grow increasingly difficult to police. At the same time forced labor\, including sex trafficking\, continues to affect an estimated 29.9 million individuals worldwide. This includes the United States. Trafficking hides in plain sight in communities across the United States; in homes\, factories\, farms and businesses. In many ways\, technology has made it easier for perpetrators to operate. We want to ensure that the power of technology is leveraged to combat these atrocious crimes \nCreate a solution to help combat child trafficking or assist its victims\, using artificial intelligence/machine learning\, augmented reality\, or anything else!  Some ideas to consider: \n\nHow can law enforcement quickly analyze large datasets\, including streaming video\, to find clues to identify victims and perpetrators of human trafficking?\nHow can technology help child survivors rebuild their digital identity?\nHow can large companies self-govern themselves to remove labor trafficking in their supply chains?\nHow can consumers participate in combating human trafficking through the choices they make?\nHow can law enforcement or NGOs crowdsource to effectively perform their services in combating human trafficking?\nWhat can we learn from visualizing trending data that could combat or prevent human trafficking?\nAny other idea you might have to contribute to the eradication of this terrible crime and the suffering of its victims\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/hackathon/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Fairfax Campus\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20190829T162626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200410T195130Z
UID:1588-1585224000-1585229400@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:POSTPONED - CINA Distinguished Speaker Series- Crysta Price: Human Trafficking
DESCRIPTION:Dear colleagues\, \nIn light of increasing concerns regarding the imminent spread of COVID-19 in the Washington\, DC metropolitan area\, George Mason University\, CINA’s operational home university\, is taking a number of precautionary measures to limit exposure and minimize risk. In accordance with CDC and WHO recommendations to limit events and gatherings in order to reduce risk\, we are cancelling the CINA Distinguished Speaker Series scheduled for March 26\, 2020. We are actively working to reschedule events and move them to online formats where possible\, and we will keep you posted as to new dates and connection details. \nWe regret any inconvenience and disappointment this may cause. The health and safety of our community is\, and will always be\, our top priority. \nPlease refer to the CINA website\, cina.gmu.edu for updates and further communications regarding CINA operational and research plans and procedures. \nThank you for your continued interest in our shared mission\, \nJim Jones \nCINA Director \n  \nFinding Trafficking Networks in Online Commercial Sex Ads \nThe Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) Distinguished Speaker Series features leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. \nJoin us on Thursday\, March 26th for a discussion about about human trafficking\, including a case walkthrough that describes how data analytics\, AI\, and collaboration with law enforcement agencies led to the dismantling of a large international sex trafficking organization. The session will be led by Crysta Price\, CEO of HTI Labs and Director of the Human Trafficking Initiative at Creighton University. \nSpeaker Biography: \nCrysta Price earned the M.A. in Data Science in 2016 and is the Director of the Human Trafficking Initiative at Creighton University\, and CEO of HTI Labs\, an organization devoted to fighting human trafficking through the use of data-driven research and technology in collaboration with community partners. Her work supports law enforcement\, service providers\, government agencies\, and policymakers in their shared goal of supporting trafficking and sexual assault survivors\, and identifying and holding perpetrators accountable. HTI Labs’ work with law enforcement resulted in the 2019 dismantling of the largest international sex trafficking ring. In 2017\, Crysta drafted the Nebraska law that allows trafficking victims to clear criminal records for crimes they were forced to commit\, a law ranked by the Polaris Project as the best of its type in the country. In 2019\, she was recognized by the Greater Omaha Chamber Young Professionals as a Change Maker for her positive and innovative impact in the community. Later that same year\, Crysta provided testimony before a committee of the United States Senate on the intersection of human trafficking and the financial sector.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-5/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Fairfax Campus\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T232438
CREATED:20190829T162534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200121T220850Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series- Christopher Koper and Beidi Dong: Understanding and Countering Mass Violence in America
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. \nThe CINA Distinguished Speaker Series features leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us on Thursday\, February 20th for a discussion about patterns in mass violence\, including new research on threat identification and its potential to enhance prevention and response to future acts. \nUnderstanding and Countering Mass Violence in America \nAbstract \nThis presentation will highlight recent and ongoing research by the presenters and their colleagues on the topic of mass violence in the United States. The presenters will first discuss findings and recommendations stemming from a recent workshop on understanding and countering mass violence that was held by George Mason University and Carnegie Mellon University with funding from the National Science Foundation. Drawing on findings from the workshop\, the presenters will highlight recent trends in mass violence and examine the potential to prevent mass violence through widespread adoption of multi-disciplinary threat assessment teams\, extreme risk protection orders\, firearms policies\, and other efforts to identify and disarm high-risk individuals. The presenters will then highlight research they are developing that could potentially assist federal\, state\, and local authorities in monitoring patterns and trends in mass public attacks and devising preventive and responding strategies. This ongoing work seeks to refine the National Threat Assessment Center’s (NTAC) threat assessment model using comprehensive data on completed and thwarted mass public attacks\, new data-driven typologies of mass public attacks\, and the development of classifiers to differentiate threats that have the potential to cause the greatest harm. \nPresenter Biographies \nDr. Christopher S. Koper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law and Society at George Mason University and the Principal Fellow of George Mason’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy.  He specializes in issues related to policing\, firearms policy\, program evaluation\, and evidence-based crime policy. He earned his Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland in 1995 and held research positions at several non-profit think tanks and universities prior to joining the faculty of George Mason in 2011. Professor Koper is the co-editor of Criminology and Public Policy (the policy journal of the American Society of Criminology) and was a principal investigator of the George Mason University-Carnegie Mellon University workshop on Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to Understanding and Countering Mass Violence in America. \nDr. Beidi Dong is an Assistant Professor of Criminology\, Law and Society at George Mason University. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida in 2015. He received post-doctoral training in the Department of Biostatistics\, Epidemiology and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania between 2015 and 2017. His research interests include firearm violence and policy\, youth gangs and peer networks\, community violence and health\, and life-course criminology/criminal careers. With his interdisciplinary background\, Dr. Dong links theories\, methods and practices of public health with those of their criminal justice counterparts to enhance public safety. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-february2020/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Fairfax Campus\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series - December: David Maimon\, Cybercriminology
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. \nThe CINA Distinguished Speaker Series features leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us on Thursday\, December 5th for a discussion about cybercrime and its actors\, and learn how scientific research advances the development of effective mitigation and prevention tactics.  \nDisrupting the Disrupters: An Evidence Based Approach for Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies’ Efforts in Cyberspace \nAbstract \nEvidence based cybersecurity is an approach aiming to support security professionals’ and policy makers’ decision-making processes regarding the deployment of security policies and tools\, by calling for rigorous scientific investigations of the effectiveness of these policies and tools in achieving their goals in the wild. This approach focuses on the human players who use cyberspace for various purposes\, and seeks to guide the configuration and design of computer environments which could mitigate the consequences of cybercrime to targets and infrastructures.  This talk will present concrete evidence from past and ongoing scientific efforts which the Evidence Based Cybersecurity research group in Georgia State University has initiated\, and which are aimed at understanding what works and what doesn’t in preventing and mitigating cybercrime. Concrete examples to the relevance of this approach in the context of law enforcement agencies’ and policy makers’ efforts in deploying efficient and cost-effective security policies and tools will be provided. \nBiography \nDavid Maimon is an Associate Professor in the department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University and the Director of the Evidence Based Cybersecurity Research Group (ebcs.gsu.edu). He has secondary appointment with the Computer Science department at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University in 2009. David’s research interests include theories of human behaviors\, cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crimes and experimental research methods. In 2015 he was awarded the “Young Scholar Award” from the “White-Collar Crime Research Consortium of the National White-Collar Crime Center” for his cybercrime research. He is also the recipient of the “Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Faculty Mentor Award” (from the University of Maryland)\, and the “Best Publication award in Mental Health” (from the American Sociological Association). His current research focuses on computer hacking and the progression of system trespassing events\, computer networks vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks\, and decision-making process in cyber space. He is also conducting research on intellectual property\, darknet markets and online fraud. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-2/
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series - November: Thomas Holt\, Illicit Online Markets
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. \nThe CINA Distinguished Speaker Series features leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us on Thursday\, November 21st for a discussion about the economy and organization of dark web illicit markets with Thomas Holt\, and learn how an understanding of these markets can crucially inform strategies to disrupt cybercrime. \nUnderstanding the Organization and Economy of Underground Online Markets \nAbstract \nIn recent years\, there has been a great deal of media attention paid to the “Dark Web\,” and the range of illegal products and services offered there.  At the same time\, many may not understand what the Dark Web actually is\, how it works\, or how the products sold there differ from what is available on the broader Internet.  This presentation will examine the various illicit markets operating on both the regular and Dark Web\, using an mixed methods analysis of over 100 vendors’ advertisements.  This study will highlight the range of products offered\, their prices\, and the ways that goods move in digital and physical spaces.  The implications of this study for our understanding of illicit market operations on and off-line will be addressed in detail. \nBiography \nThomas J. Holt is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University whose research focuses on computer hacking\, malware\, and the role of the Internet in facilitating all manner of crime and deviance. His work has been published in various journals including Crime and Delinquency\, Deviant Behavior\, the Journal of Criminal Justice\, and Youth and Society. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-3/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Fairfax Campus\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series events: November and December
DESCRIPTION:Please click here to register and get more information about the November 21st speaker series event with Thomas Holt (Understanding the Organization and Economy of Underground Online Markets). \n  \nPlease click here to register and get more information about the December 5th speaker series event with David Maimon (Disrupting the Disrupters: An Evidence Based Approach for Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies’ Efforts in Cyberspace).
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-events-november-and-december/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T130000
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SUMMARY:Fall Information Session 2019
DESCRIPTION:Please consider joining the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center for our upcoming fall information session.  \nWhat:         CINA Information Session \nWhen:        Wednesday\, October 23rd\, from 12:00 – 1:00pm \nWhere:       3301 Exploratory Hall\, George Mason University\, Fairfax\, VA campus \nThe Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center is a multidisciplinary academic consortium led by George Mason University. CINA pursues innovative strategies and solutions to advance criminal network analysis\, forensics\, and investigative processes. \nJoin us on Wednesday\, October 23rd for an information session led by center director Anthony Stefanidis. The session will offer insight into CINA’s ongoing research and its benefits to DHS and the university\, including past and future events\, outreach activities\, and collaborative opportunities. For our planning purposes\, please RVSP if you plan to attend.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/fall-information-session-2019/
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series - Andrew Crooks
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. \nThe Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) Distinguished Speaker Series invites leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us one Thursday each month to learn from and interact with these thought leaders. \nJoin us on Thursday\, October 17th from 12:00-1:30 PM for a discussion about Agent-Based Modeling with Dr. Andrew Crooks\, Associate Professor with the Department of Computational and Data Sciences and the Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science at George Mason University. The talk will take place in Exploratory Hall 3301 on the Fairfax campus. Refreshments will be available. \nUtilizing Agent-based Models and Open Data to Examine the Movement of People and Information: A Gallery of Applications. \nToday we are awash with many new forms of open data (e.g. crowdsourced\, social media)\, but we are still challenged with how individuals make decisions and how this leads to more aggregate patterns emerging. One way to explore how individuals make decisions\, or are impacted by information and their resulting consequences\, is via agent-based modeling. Agent-based modeling allows for simulating heterogenous actors and their decision-making processes within complex systems. Through a series of example applications ranging from the small-scale movement of pedestrians over seconds\, to that of the movement of people over borders over hours and days\, I will demonstrate how open data can be leveraged within the agent-based building process. Specifically\, the examples will show that by focusing on individuals\, or groups of individuals and the networks that connect them\, more aggregate patterns emerge from the bottom up. \nDr. Andrew Crooks received his PhD. in Geography from University College London in 2007 and is currently an Associate Professor of Computational Social Science with a joint appointment between the Departments of Computational and Data Sciences and Geography and GeoInformation Science at George Mason University. His research focuses on exploring and understanding the natural and socio-economic environments specifically urban areas using GIS\, spatial analysis\, social network analysis and agent-based modeling methodologies. He has published over 100 fully refereed journal papers\, book chapters and conference papers collecting over 4\,000 citations to his work; and in 2019 published a book entitled “Agent-based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Primer.” See further details about his research. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-october/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Fairfax Campus\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
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