IDA Research Staff participate actively in various professional activities – both within their disciplines and ancillary to them – including publishing in the open literature. Below are some recent citations of IDA Researchers and their work.
The Brin Mathematics Research Center at the University of Maryland is holding a mathematics workshop in honor of Jeffrey Adams and his career. The event will take place October 14-17 and will focus on recent developments in representation theory as it relates to Lie groups.
Anna Mikulska served as a panelist at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy 2024. The panel followed a presentation by Energy Institute’s chief executive on the review, which presents data on global energy through the prior year. An Energy In Depth article summarizes the report and quotes Anna’s remarks on developing nations’ use of Russian oil.
Arun Maiya was selected to participate on the 2024 Panel on Assessment of Network, Cyber and Computational Sciences, hosted by the National Academies. Arun and the other panelists will review technical competencies covered by the Army Research Laboratory’s research and development portfolio. The event will take place August 6-8 at the Adelphi Laboratory Center.
Mark Kaye presented at the Naval Postgraduate School’s 21st Annual Acquisition Research Symposium on May 8. His remarks were based on a paper he coauthored with Susan Rose.
Gifford Wong served on a panel at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the U.S. Gifford and the other panelists discussed how we might make climate data from space actionable. The panel followed a presentation on observations from NASA’s PACE mission, which uses Dutch instrument SPEXone to measure the influence of aerosols on climate change.
Sujeeta Bhatt appeared in three episodes of an upcoming documentary series, “The Interrogation Tapes.” The episodes aired on ABC on April 1, 8 and 29 and were made available on Hulu the next day.
U.S. Embassy Tokyo staff interviewed STPI Director Kristen Kulinowski for the video series Tokyo Talks. Kristen discussed topics relating to higher education in STEM and gave advice to Japanese students considering STEM graduate programs in the U.S. The interview was part of the embassy’s Speakers’ Program, an initiative that engages professional and student Japanese audiences on topics of strategic importance to the U.S. and Japan.
Sue Numrich earned the National Training & Simulation Association (NTSA) Lifetime Achievement in Modeling and Simulation award for her contributions to the science and technology of modeling and simulations.
Tom Greenwood and Pat Savage published an article in the Marine Corps Gazette on the relationship between technological innovation and warfighting. In the article, they analyze cases from recent history and argue that new technology alone cannot guarantee victory. Rather, a combination of effective incorporation of that technology, strategic advantage and other human factors are needed to gain the upper hand.
