The Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) researchers and staff will attend the International Association for Identification (IAI) Annual Educational Conference. The conference will be held Aug. 20-26 in National Harbor, Maryland.
CSAFE will be in booth 225 in Exhibit Hall D starting on Monday, Aug. 21 through Wednesday, Aug. 23. Visitors to the booth will be able to learn all about CSAFE’s new online learning platform, CSAFE Learning, and can sign up for all new courses and learning opportunities. They can also test their knowledge of forensic statistics by playing the game FastStats.
CSAFE will also host the mid-week Discipline Social Event in Exhibit Hall E on Wednesday, Aug. 23 from 5:15-7:15 p.m. The event is open to all attendees; drinks and snacks will be available.
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.
More information about CSAFE attending the IAI Conference can be found at https://forensicstats.org/iai2023/.
WORKSHOPS
Statistical Thinking for Forensic Practitioners
Aug. 22, 1-5 p.m.
Hal Stern, CSAFE co-director and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor and Chancellor’s Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Irvine
Statistical Interpretation and Reporting of Fingerprint Evidence: FRStat
Aug. 22, 1-5 p.m.
Alicia Carriquiry, CSAFE director and Distinguished Professor and President’s Chair in Statistics at Iowa State University; Jeff Salyards, CSAFE research scientist; and Henry Swofford, lead scientist with the Forensic Science Research Program in the Special Programs Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
A Gentle Introduction to the Likelihood Ratio: Basic Ideas, Implementation, and Limitations
Aug. 24, 8 a.m.-Noon
Alicia Carriquiry, CSAFE director and Distinguished Professor and President’s Chair in Statistics at Iowa State University; and Jeff Salyards, CSAFE research scientist
Footwear Impression Examination: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review
Aug. 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Kelly Sauerwein, physical scientist with the Forensic Science Research Program in the NIST Special Programs Office, and John Butler, NIST Fellow and Special Assistant to the Director for Forensic Science in the NIST Special Programs Office
LECTURES
An Alternative Statistical Framework for Measuring Proficiency
Aug. 22, 8:30-8:55 a.m.
Amanda Luby, assistant professor of statistics at Swarthmore College
Statistical Interpretation and Reporting of Fingerprint Evidence: FRStat Introduction and Overview
Aug. 22, 9-9:30 a.m.
Alicia Carriquiry, CSAFE director and Distinguished Professor and President’s Chair in Statistics at Iowa State University, and Henry Swofford, lead scientist with the Forensic Science Research Program in the Special Programs Office at NIST
Estimation of Error Rates from Black-box Studies
Aug. 22, 10:30-11:10 a.m.
Alicia Carriquiry, CSAFE director and Distinguished Professor and President’s Chair in Statistics at Iowa State University
Source Camera Identification with Multi-camera Smartphones
Aug.22, 10:30-11:10 a.m.
Stephanie Reinders, CSAFE research scientist
Expected Variation in High-Quality Footwear Replicate Test Impressions
Aug. 22, 11:30-11:50 a.m.
Samantha Brady, graduate student at West Virginia University, and Jacqueline Speir, associate professor of forensic and investigative science at West Virginia University
What’s in a Name? Consistency in Latent Print Examiners’ Naming Conventions and Perceptions of Minutiae Frequency
Aug. 23, 10-10:40 a.m.
Heidi Eldridge, assistant professor of forensic sciences at George Washington University, and Adele Quigley-McBride, post-doctoral fellow at Duke University
An Algorithm for Source Identification of Footwear Impressions—Its Application on Pristine Shoeprints and Crime-scene Like Shoeprints
Aug. 23, 3-3:20 p.m.
Hana Lee, graduate student at Iowa State University
Shoeprint Alignment and Comparison Using Maximum Cliques
Aug. 23, 3:30-3:50 p.m.
Gautham Venkatasubramanian, graduate student at Iowa State University
Does Proficiency Testing Resemble Casework? Examiner Software Use and Laboratory Practices in Routine Casework Versus Proficiency Testing
Aug. 24, 11:45 a.m.-Noon
Brett Gardner, assistant professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, and Sharon Kelley, assistant professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia
