Upcoming Presentations

[Graham Durant-Law]

In the coming months I am presenting to several organisations. On the Thursday 21st of July I am talking to the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers conference. My subject is “Social Network Analysis as an Intelligence Technique – the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program Revisited”. The abstract is as follows:

“Network analysis has its origins in graph theory which can be traced to Leonhard Euler’s solution of the Konigsberg bridges problem in 1736. Simplistically graph theory is a mathematical discipline that examines the relationships between a set of entities referred to as vertices or nodes. These nodes are connected by edges, more commonly known as links. Network analysis builds on graph theory by allocating attribute data to the nodes and relationship data to the links. These are then visualised as ‘maps’ and analysed. The method has primarily been used in theoretical physics and mathematics, but more recently has been applied to academic investigations in the social sciences, and practically into fields like medicine and terrorism studies. This presentation uses these techniques to show how intelligence analysts can use readily available open-source information to map the networks of people of interest.”

On Tuesday the 16th of August I am giving a public lecture during National Science Week .

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