BOSTON, MA: ISE Distinguished Professor Panos Pardalos delivered the invited talk “Assessing the Vulnerability of Evacuation Plans via Critical Element Detection” in the session “Dynamics of Disasters: Harnessing the Science of Networks To Save Lives” at the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science ) annual meeting on February 17 in Boston. The session also featured Dr. Laura McLay of Virginia Commonwealth University and Dr. David McLaughlin of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.