Events

Students and faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School are welcome to join our informal Wednesday brown-bag seminar series. All SEED students are expected to regularly attend. During COVID-19, we typically meet using MS Teams, 1210-1250. Announcement of meeting is sent out via email prior to the seminar.

Upcoming seminars:

• SEED brown-bag seminars are being held via MS Teams. Check back for an updated schedule.

Recent topics (2021):

• Capt Sam Fitzmaurice, US Marine Corps - Survivability of Ground Based Anti-Ship Missiles in Expeditionary Advanced Base Operationsk
• Capt Sean Harper, US Marine Corps - Marine Infantry Company Lethality: An Analysis of Force Design 2030 Proposals
• Capt Caleb Kadrmas, US Marine Corps -  Robust Analysis Of USMC Artillery Systems And Employment In Near Peer Conflict

Past topics:

• MAJ Charlie Timm , US Army and Mr. Jonathan Shockley - TRAC-Monterey Information Brief / Logistics Battle Command Overview
• Maj Greg Lynch, USMC - Networked Logistics: Turning the Iron Mountain into an Iron Network
• LCDR David Medici, USN - Analysis of IPOWER: A Small Unit Energy and Mission Planning Tool
• Maj Josh Gordon, USMC - Simulation Analysis of Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems' Capabilities Impact in Support of the Marine Air Ground Task Force
• Dr. Tom Donnelly, JMP Defense & Aerospace Team - An Overview of JMP
• CAPTJared Kassulke, US Army - Countering UAVs with Pharmaceutical Based Agent Payloads
• Capt Ashley Brown, USMC - Effective Humanitarian Logistics Delivery using Space-filling Curves
• Maj Kevin Doherty, USMC - Data Farming the Marine Corps’ Readiness and Availability Tool for Force Employment and Force Structure Strategic Decisions
• Capt Courtney Thompson, USMC - Paying for Weight in Blood:  Analysis of Weight and Protection Level of a Combat Load During Tactical Operations
• Manuel Loewer, Major, German Army - An analysis of factors that influence logistics, operational availability, and flying hour supply of the German helicopter fleet
• Silvio Pueschel, Lieutenant Colonel, German Army - Optimization of advanced multi-junction solar cell design for space environment using NOLH design of experiments
• Akhtar Zaman, LCDR, Pakistan Navy - Convoy protection under multi-threat scenario
• Capt Elle Ekman, USMC - Simulating sustainment for USMC distributed operations:  Shaping the concept of operations for USMC unmanned logistics systems
• Capt Oludare Adeniji, USMC - Forecasting maintenance shortcomings of a planned Equipment Density Listing (EDL) in support of expeditionary missions
• Maj Sam Gray, USMC - Agent-based simulation to support the effectiveness, procurement, and employment of non-lethal weapon systems
• Capt Zach Maldonado - Determining tactical usage of non-lethal weapons for fixed site security of U.S. Embassies
• Prof. Susan Sanchez and Prof. Tom Lucas - SEED Center Overview for new students
• LT Kristin Erickson, US Navy - Analyzing tactics and techniques within distributed lethality using agent-based simulation
• CDR Kevin Williams, US Navy - Exploring options for adding a Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) capability to the P8-A
• Ali Opcin, LTjg Turkish Navy - Modeling anti-air warfare with discrete event simulation using the SIMKIT library
• LT Hank Villatoro, US Navy - High energy laser employment in self defense tactics on naval platforms in a complex air environment
• Salah Ilaslan, Captain, Turkish Air Force - Analysis of error propagation within hierarchical air combat models
• Raja Sikandar, Pakistan Navy - Analysis of protection measures for naval vessels berthed at harbor for terrorist attacks
• LT Michael Schambach, US Navy - Analysis of a long range undersea strike weapon
• LT Melvin Cheang, Singapore Navy - Operational energy capability portfolio for protection of maritime forces against small boat swarms
• Collin Erickson, Northwestern University - Adaptive sFFLHD sampling concept
• Amara Borchers, SEED summer intern - Observing the behavior of a wildfire using Ruby
• Rohit Jawle, SEED summer intern - Computer virus simulation
• Emma Cushing, SEED summer intern - Modeling genetic diseases: A study of the autosomal genetic inheritance pattern
• LCDR Kevin Fornal, US Navy - Evaluating risk associated with extended, uninterrupted testing of unmanned undersea vehicles
• Dr. Paul Sanchez, NPS - Basic version control with git
• Prof. David Kelton, University of Cincinnati - Irregular simulation: Input modeling, applications, and heresies
• LT Allison Hogarth, US Navy - Improving Navy recruiting with data farming
• LT Peter Balazaki, US Navy - Assessing the Navy's Officer Strategic Analysis Model (OSAM)