The Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) researchers and staff will attend the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) annual scientific conference. The conference will be held Feb. 19-24 in Denver, Colorado.
CSAFE will be at booth 505 in the Exhibit Hall starting on Wednesday, Feb. 21 through Friday, Feb. 23. Visitors to the booth will learn about CSAFE’s online learning platform, CSAFE Learning, and enroll in new courses and learning opportunities. Additionally, interactive demonstrations will allow visitors to preview various types of learning materials.
CSAFE researcher Adele Quigley-McBride, assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, will be a panelist for the plenary session, “The Intersection of Science and Justice: Does Forensic Science Have a Role in Ensuring Justice for All?” The plenary session will be held Feb. 21 at 10-11:30 a.m. MST. Quigley-McBride will be joined by CSAFE advisory board member Sarah Chu, director of Policy and Reform at the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law.
Hal Stern, CSAFE co-director and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor and Chancellor’s Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Irvine, and Jeff Salyards, CSAFE researcher, will be presenting the workshop “Statistics and Forensic Science: From Probability to Black Box Studies to Likelihood Ratios” on Feb. 20 at 8:30-4:30 p.m. MST. This workshop will consist of four 90-minute sessions covering probability concepts, forensic conclusions and black box studies, the two-stage approach to forensic inference and the likelihood ratio in forensic science.
Other CSAFE researchers will share the latest advancements in their research activities during the scientific and poster sessions. Below is the complete list of CSAFE presentations at AAFS 2024. An asterisk (*) denotes a CSAFE researcher, advisory board member or collaborator.
For more information about the AAFS conference, visit https://www.aafs.org/annual-conference. More information about CSAFE attending the AAFS conference can be found at https://forensicstats.org/aafs2024.
PLENARY SESSION
The Intersection of Science and Justice: Does Forensic Science Have a Role in Ensuring Justice for All?
Feb. 21, 10-11:30 AM
Panelists: Tiffany Roy, Sarah Chu*, Adele Quigley-McBride* and John Butler
WORKSHOP
Statistics and Forensic Science: From Probability to Black Box Studies to Likelihood Ratios
Feb. 20, 8:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Linton Mohammed*
Presenters: Hal Stern* and Jeff Salyards*
SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
A Forensic Analysis on Major Android™ Cloud SDKs
Feb. 22, 8:50-9:10 a.m.
Chen Shi* and Yong Guan*
Results from an Interlaboratory Study to Evaluate Analytical Schemes in ASTM E2329—Standard Practice for Identification of Seized Drugs
Feb. 22, 9:30-9:45 a.m.
Jeremy S. Triplett*, Michael J. Salyards*, Sandra E. Rodriguez-Cruz, Jeremiah Morris, Megan Grabenauer and Darryl Creel
What Is the Probability That a True Match Will Appear in the Top K Correlations After a Database Search?
Feb. 22, 11:15-11:30 a.m.
Alicia Carriquiry*, Heike Hofmann*, Blanca I. Parker and Cathryn Barbour
Quantifying Bayes Factors for Forensic Handwriting Evidence
Feb. 22, 1:30-1:45 p.m.
Anyesha Ray* and Danica M. Ommen*
Quantifying Writer Variance Through Rainbow Triangle Graph Decomposition
Feb. 22, 1:45-2:15 p.m.
Alexandra Arabio*, Alicia Carriquiry* and Danica M. Ommen*
Graph Theoretic Techniques for Image Comparisons
Feb. 22, 2:55-3:25 p.m.
Gautham Venkatasubramanian* and Alicia Carriquiry*
Presumption of Innocence, Probable Cause, and Prior Probability—Bayes Meets Due Process
Feb. 22, 4-4:30 p.m.
Michael J. Salyards*
Error Rate Studies: The Good, the So-So, and the Unacceptable
Feb. 23, 8:30-9 a.m.
Kori Khan* and Alicia Carriquiry*
Toward Consistency in Latent Print Examiners’ Naming Conventions and Minutiae Frequency Estimations
Feb. 23, 1:30-1:45 PM
Adele Quigley-McBride*, Heidi Eldridge* and Brett Gardner*
The Impact of Multi-Camera Smart Phones on Source Camera Identification
Feb. 23, 2:50-3:10 p.m.
Stephanie Reinders*, Danica M. Ommen* and Alicia Carriquiry*
SCIENTIFIC POSTER SESSION
Estimating Sufficiency of the Pairwise Euclidean Distance on Sets of Handwritten Documents
Feb. 22, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Cami Fuglsby, Christopher P. Saunders, Danica M. Ommen* and JoAnn Buscaglia*
YOUNG FORENSIC SCIENTIST FORUM (YFSF) POSTER SESSION
The Impact of Zoom on Smart Phone Camera Identification
Feb. 21, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Gavin Norton* and Stephanie Reinders*
Producing Datasets: Capturing Images on Multi-Camera Smart Phones for Source Camera Identification
Feb. 21, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Megan McGuire* and Stephanie Reinders*
A Semi-Automatic Tool for Footwear Impression Alignment
Feb. 23, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Hana Lee* and Alicia Carriquiry*
