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Hal Stern, CSAFE co-director, presented a workshop at the 2021 IAI Conference. At this year’s conference, Stern and Alicia Carriquiry, CSAFE director, will give the workshop Statistical Ideas for Forensic Practitioners on Aug. 3 from 1-5 p.m.

Posted June 28, 2022

CSAFE Team, Conferences and Events, Education, Forensic Science

The Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) researchers will present at the 2022 International Association for Identification (IAI) Annual Educational Conference. The conference will be held July 31-Aug. 6 in Omaha, Neb. The week-long event includes scientific, technical and operational lectures, as well as hands-on workshops focused on various topics.
CSAFE researchers will share the latest advancements in their research activities, including footwear, handwriting, and latent print analysis; forensic methods for digital evidence; and statistical methods in forensic science. The CSAFE workshops and lectures are listed below.

CSAFE is a conference sponsor and will be in booth 529 in the exhibit hall starting Monday, Aug. 1 through Wednesday, Aug. 3. For more information about CSAFE attending the IAI Conference, visit forensicstats.org/iai2022.

WORKSHOPS 

From Scans to Scores
Aug. 2, 8 a.m.-noon
Heike Hofmann, professor at Iowa State University, and Susan Vanderplas, assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Local Population Footwear Class Characteristics: An End-to-End Pipeline for Automatic Data Acquisition and Analysis
Aug. 3, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Richard Stone, associate professor at Iowa State University, and Susan Vanderplas

Statistical Ideas for Forensic Practitioners
Aug. 3, 1-5 p.m.
Alicia Carriquiry, CSAFE director and Distinguished Professor and President’s Chair in Statistics at Iowa State University, and Hal Stern, CSAFE co-director and professor at the University of California, Irvine

LECTURES

Error Rate Methods for Forensic Handwriting Identification
Aug. 4, 8-8:40 a.m.
Danica Ommen, assistant professor at Iowa State University

Comparing handwriter and FLASH ID, Two Handwriting Analysis Programs
Aug. 4, 9-9:20 a.m.
Stephanie Reinders, CSAFE research scientist

Studying Reproducibility and Repeatability for Pattern Evidence Comparisons
Aug. 4, 10-11 a.m.
Hina Arora, Ph.D. student at the University of California, Irvine

Revisiting the Likelihood Ratio: A Gentle Introduction and Some Examples
Aug. 4, 11:10 a.m.-noon
Alicia Carriquiry, CSAFE director and Distinguished Professor and President’s Chair in Statistics at Iowa State University

A New Algorithm for Source Identification of Look-alike Footwear Impressions Based on Automatic Alignment
Aug. 4, 1:50-2:30 p.m.
Hana Lee, graduate student at Iowa State University

Jury Perception of Bullet Matching Algorithms and Demonstrative Evidence
Aug. 4, 4-4:20 p.m.
Rachel Rogers, graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Towards a Score-Based Likelihood Ratio for Footwear Evidence
Aug. 4, 4:45-5:05 p.m.
Valerie Han, graduate student at Iowa State University

Evaluating Reference Sets for Score-Based Likelihood Ratios for Camera Identification
Aug. 5, 11:20-11:40 a.m.
Stephanie Reinders, CSAFE research scientist

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