2015-16: Forensics: Transition Workshop: May 9-11, 2016

Workshop Information

Program: 2015-16: Program on Statistics and Applied Mathematics in Forensic Science (Forensics)

When: May 9, 2016 - 8:00am - May 11, 2016 - 1:00pm

Workshop Organizers:

Clifford Spiegelman

Cedric Neumann

Karen Kafadar

Registration for this workshop is currently closed.

This workshop will be held at SAMSI.

Deadline for applications is Monday, March 14, 2016

This workshop will present the accomplishments from the 2015-2016 SAMSI forensic workgroups. It will highlight progress in assessing image quality, and image segmentation, for pattern evidence. The main examples will come from fingerprints, shoeprints, and firearm toolmarks. There will also be a session based upon the forensic bias workgroup that highlights the need for contextual information management and blind testing. Finally NISS and other agencies will discuss their programs, in a separate session, about how important research from this program will be extended well beyond the SAMSI program year.

Directorate liaisons: Richard Smith and Nell Sedransk