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Speaker: Hassan Salmani, Ph.D.
Language: Farsi

Synopsis:

Digital computer technologies have penetrated to every facet of our lives through smart phones, implantable medical devices, banking, and smart power networks, to name a few. While we are amazed with unprecedented provided capabilities, they also present new threats to our personal and national economics, security, and health. Our visual media can be manipulated with Photoshop; our software and networks may be hacked; and the hardware hosting these capabilities is known to often be counterfeited and compromised. Trust is essential to our way of life; it allows us to work and live together. While what we are more familiar with is about software and internet security, this talk mainly focuses on the impact of globalization in the interested of economy on the hardware security of our computing devices. Whereas software security is on pace to become a $156 billion industry in the next five years, the challenges hardware presents are in many ways more extensive, more dangerous, and more difficult to combat.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Hassan Salmani is currently an Assistant Professor in electrical and computer engineering at Howard University, Washington DC. He got his PhD in electrical engineering from University of Connecticut in 2011. His main research projects are on hardware security and trust. Dr. Salmani has published several papers on hardware security, one book entitled “Integrated Circuit Authentication: Hardware Trojans and Counterfeit Detection”, and one chapter book on hardware Trojans. He has served on the program committee and session chairs at different conferences and as reviewers for conferences and journals. Dr. Salmani is a member of the IEEE and SAE G19-A Tampered Subgroup.

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Speaker: Farid Tayari, PhD.
Language: English

Synopsis:

The long-term storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) via injection into deep geologic formations represents a promising technological pathway for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. This lecture will discuss developing a preliminary assessment of the economic feasibility of storing CO2 in depleted unconventional natural gas-bearing shale formations. Using a surrogate reservoir model (SRM) and a flexible environment for techno-economic analysis, site-scale estimates of long-term CO2 sequestration costs in depleted shale gas formations and the likely major cost drivers will be discussed. This approach couples techno-economic analysis with reservoir simulation models to estimate costs associated with transportation, injection, CO2 separation and post-injection monitoring of CO2 storage permanence from large industrial point sources in depleted shale-gas reservoirs. Developed cost model forms the required structure to study the influential factors in decision making and policy analysis of CO2 storage in shale gas formations, such as CH4 and CO2 price.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Tayari is a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. After gaining several years of experience in energy industry during 2005-2010 in Iran, he started his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University in 2011, where he earned his Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy in 2014. He received his MBA degree in Marketing from University of Tehran and his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests include quantitative analysis of complex engineering/economic energy systems, techno-economic modeling, economic feasibility assessment and policy analysis. He served as the President of Iranian Student Association at Pennsylvania State University (ISA) in 2013.

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Speaker: Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani, Ph.D.
Language: English

Synopsis:

Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani will present an overview of cancer biology and explain the potential causes of carcinogenesis. She will stress on the multifactorial source of cancer and the fact that prevention is much more effective and practical as compared to its cure. Furthermore, she will explain why in spite of all the buzz about cancer research, the chance to cure cancer with conventional medicine is slim.

The talk agenda includes:

• The status of medical practice
• The facts about clinical trials
• The role of regulatory bodies
• Prescription drugs and how they work in general (the big picture)
• Medical errors
• What is cancer?
• Is it possible to cure cancer?
• How to prevent cancer?
• Biology of belief
• You are in control of your body

About the Speaker:

Dr. Motamed-Khorasani is a Medical/scientific Affairs Specialist and a Senior Scientist with a strong background in biomedical science and clinical trial/research. She has a tenured and diverse range of experience in medical affairs, basic and industrial clinical research and development, clinical trials, Medical and regulatory writing and intellectual property. She has served as an independent consultant, director of medical affairs, senior medical sciences liaison, senior scientist and senior medical analyst at United States Pharmacopia Convention (USP), Amgen, Baxter International, Covidien (eV3), Radient Pharmaceuticals, AMDL Diagnostics, NuVax, Microbix Biosystems, Neometrix Consulting, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, and Vancouver General Hospital. She has more than 18 years of experience and many National and international certificates in GLP, GMP, ICH-GCP and FDA regulatory compliance for clinical trials and is a member of professional associations that include the Endocrine Society, American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), Iranian-American Medical Association (IAMA), Bitech and Pharma Professionals Network (BPPN), American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS), and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC). She has published and presented more than 50 papers, abstracts and articles in highly regarded scientific journals and high profile conferences and scientific meetings.

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