All seminar lectures are held Fridays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Pastore Hall, 51 Lower College Road, Room 124, and are free and open to the public. Here is the schedule:
• Feb. 6—“Challenges in Protecting and Responding to Explosive Incidents in Mass Transit Emergency Operations,” Chris Tuttle, emergency operations manager of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
• Feb. 13—“Readiness for Acts of Terrorism,” Peter Ginaitt, director of emergency preparedness at LifeSpan.
• Feb. 20—“Homeland Security, Lessons Learned from Israel,” Amit Gavish, managing director, corporate intelligence and investigation, SSC Intelligence, a firm that provides security consulting, implementation and investigative services within complex and sensitive business environments.
• Feb. 27—“Computer Forensics,” Victor Fay-Wolfe, URI professor of computer science and statistics.
• March 6—“Using Science to Solve the National Security Problem,” Doug Bauer, Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology.
• March 13—“High Security Facilities: Why Locks and Access Control May Not Protect Them,” Marc Weber Tobias of the Investigative Law Offices, of Sioux Falls, S.D.
• March 20, Spring Break, no lecture.
• March 27—“Closing Guantanamo: What Comes Next,” Jeffrey Norwitz of the Naval War College, National Security Studies.
• April 3—“Conspiracy Theories, Trace Evidence in the Martin Luther King Case,” Robert Hathaway, criminalist and firearms expert with the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at URI.
• April 10—“A Prosecutor’s Views,” Stacey Veroni, Rhode Island assistant attorney general.
• April 17—“Distance Forensics to Support the New World,” Carl Selavka, retired head of the Massachusetts State Forensics Lab.
• April 24—“Importance of Trace and Impression Evidence,” Ted Schwartz, of the Westchester County Forensic Laboratory.