Human Identification e-Symposium 2006

[Deuby]

I didn't see this posted anywhere, but know that this will interest many. My office has tuned into the site and found it very informative. Here is a portion of the email I received for the upcoming event...


The e-Symposium™ will be broadcast live & online on 28 February 2006.
Delegates from around the world will be tuning in live to join
presentations and round table debates from their workplace and interact
with the world's leading forensic science experts. The online event is
accessible to anyone with a computer, a soundcard and an Internet
connection.


This year's programme highlights include:

MiniSTR’s for low copy number and degraded DNA
Michael Coble, NIST

Forensic applications of SNP typing
Angel Carracedo, Director of the National Genotyping Centre, Spain

DNA Low Copy Number (LCN) Profiling
Jonathan Whitaker, Forensic Science Service

Legal Regulation of Laboratories and Expert Testimony
William C. Thompson, Department of Criminology, Law and Society,
University of California

Policy Issues of DNA in the Criminal Justice System
David M. J. Lazer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Fingerprint Detection Errors
Glenn Langenburg, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension

Non-Numeric Standards
David Ashbaugh, Fingerprint Expert and Staff Sergeant (Retired) of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Round Table: Databases and their Legal & Ethical Use and

Round Table: Validity Challenges of Fingerprint Evidence

The e-Symposium™ is regulated by distinguished experts such as David
Faigman, James Robertson, Richard Saferstein, Peter Gill, John Butler,
Henry Lee, Christopher Champod and Fred Preston.


For more information, please visit www.forensic.e-symposium.com/humid.




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[g.]

They listed me as presenting on:
"Fingerprint Detection Errors"

FYI and to clarify. I was asked to present 20 minutes on the "error rate" study that Kasey Wertheim, Andre Moenssens, and I published in last issue of JFI ("A Report on Latent Print Examiner Accuracy During Comparison Training Execises", JFI 56 (1), 2006.).

Because it is only 20 minutes, it will be just the bare bones of the article and a few of the ongoing issues and debates regarding error rates. There will then be 40 minutes afterwards to answer live questions in a "chat room" format.

If you do not receive the JFI (for shame! ) but would like a copy of the article, you can email me through this site (click on my email icon). I have a copy in .pdf (~2.5 MB in size).

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[Michele]

I'm just curious about the cost of registering for this event.

I was registered for the last e-symposium and all I needed to do was log in and register to get ready to listen to it tomorrow.

Other people I know, who weren't registered for the last e-symposium, have tried to register and it looks like the cost is either $90 or you need a coupon code. Is this correct?? Has anybody who wasn't registered for the prior presentations been able to register for free?