The National Symposium on Technology and Methodology for Security and Crisis Management, TAMSEC 2017, will be arranged in conjunction with “Mötesplats Samhällssäkerhet”, November 28-29, 2017 at Kistamässan, Kista, Sweden.

The web registration for Mötesplats Samhällssäkerhet and TAMSEC is accessible here.

Graduate school students of Forum Securitatis will be given the opportunity to participate free of charge on behalf of Security Link.
For more information about research topics, application areas and how to participate, follow this link.

Abstract submission will open in August.

The fundraising foundation KIS at Kolmården Wildlife Park are donating new telephones to wildlifesecurity.se. These phones will be delivered out in the field to the rangers of the Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary in Tsavo West National Park in Kenya, along with new software to digitize the rangers’ reports and patrols.

Security Link congratulates Forum Securitatis PhD Johan Sigholm, who defended his thesis “Secure Tactical Communications for
Inter-Organizational Collaboration” at the Swedish Defence University on 11 November.

The Cambridge textbook Fundamentals of Massive MIMO, coauthored by one of the Security-Link PIs, is now available.

If you want to read more about Massive MIMO, we recommend you to visit the Massive MIMO blog.

Johan Bergenäs writes in Axess on how technology and innovation are part of the solution to save the world’s endangered animals.
Read more here (in Swedish) and check out LiUs Project Ngulia!

Sara Örn Tengstrand, Patrik Eliardsson and Erik Axell, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), have been awarded the 2016 Fred W. Ellersick MILCOM Award for the Best Paper in the Unclassified Technical Program, for their paper “Mitigation of Multiple Impulse Noise Sources Through Selective Attenuation”. The paper was selected from among the 225 accepted manuscripts.  Unlike many other conferences, there is just a single best paper in the IEEE MILCOM 2016 Unclassified Program.

The past week, FOI-Swedish Defence Research Agency, arranged a conference within the European FP7-funded project P5, with around 40 participants from several countries. The P5 project, consisting of partners from universities and authorities in nine European countries has been going on for three years and deals with perimeter proactive surveillance systems for critical infrastructures. The project has been coordinated by Security-Link researcher David Lindgren.

Link to article in Corren (in Swedish). http://www.corren.se/nyheter/ditt-beteende-kommer-att-overvakas-om4326492.aspx

FoodSmartphone is a new European Training Network on the development of smartphone-based (bio)analytical sensing and diagnostics tools for simplified on-site rapid pre-screening of food quality and safety parameters and wireless data transfer to servers of relevant stakeholders. It comprises 7 Training Sites (3 universities, 3 research centres, 1 innovation SME), plus 2 Partner Organisations (1 global food industry and 1 diagnostics SME). The consortium is built on complementary disciplines: (bio)analytical chemists, biologists, physicists, micro-engineers, mathematicians and food chemists.

The principal investigator from LiU is Prof. Daniel Filippini, head of the Optical Devices Laboratory (ODL) at IFM. ODL specializes in optical chemical sensing and lab-on-a-chip (LOC) solutions. In FoodSmartPhone LiU is responsible for “Integrated sample preparation devices” using a particular 3D printed fast-prototyping approach for LOC (unibody-LOC) and optics, both developed at ODL. Within the targets of the ODL contribution is the formulation of disposable coupling devices for autonomous surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection with cell phones.

Total Budget: 2 843 041 €
LiU Budget: 232 259 €

More info on the Optical Devices Laboratory can be found on http://people.ifm.liu.se/danfi/ODL/ODL.html

Johan Bergenäs, Security policy advisor in Security Link, participated in the 2016 Our Ocean conference in Washington D.C. September 15-16, together with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other global leaders. U.S. president Barack Obama spoke to the 300 invited participants.

September 22 is the international rhino day, and September is also the month of the rhino at Kolmården wildlife park. Project Ngulia gets special visibility during the “Rhino weekend” September 23-25, at Kolmården, including a project movie shown before the dolphin show, and premiere of a new virtual reality game. A Swedish studio production is also shown on local TV in east Sweden during September: Kolmården diskuterar med Fredrik Berling: tema noshörning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hwGysUH1lk