Forensics@NIST2016 | Presentations

   
Agenda for the full two-day program.

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November 8-9, 2016
Gaithersburg, MD

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November 8, 2016

• KEYNOTE
  • “Accidental Traveler” An Attorney, with No Scientific Background, Immersed in Worlds of Science and Law – How Do We Connect?
    • Jules Epstein, Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs Temple Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia
• PROGRAM OVERVIEW

  • NIST and the Forensic Science Center of Excellence – CSAFE (Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence)

    • Susan Ballou, Forensic Science, Research Program Manager, Federal Program Officer, NIST

    • Alicia Carriquiry, Distinguished Professor, Director, CSAFE

• STATISTICS

  • Overview of Work in the Statistics Forensic Science Focus Area at NIST and Applicable CSAFE Research

    • Will Guthrie, Chief, Statistical Engineering Division, NIST

  • A Measurement Science Perspective on Assessing the Weight of Evidence  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}

    • Steve Lund, NIST

  • Measurements and Scoring Procedures for Footwear Impression Comparisons  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}

    • Martin Herman, NIST

  • Statistical Models for the Generation and Interpretation of Shoeprint Evidence

    • Charless Fowlkes, CSAFE-UCI

  • Modeling the Distribution of RACs (Accidentals) in Footwear Evidence

    • Neil Spencer, CSAFE-CMU

• DIGITAL AND IDENTIFICATION FORENSICS

  • Digital and Identification Forensics

    • Barbara Guttman, NIST

  • Quantifying the Weight of Friction Ridge Evidence: Score-based Likelihood Ratio for Fingerprints

    • Elham Tabassi, NIST

  • New Data Collections in the NSRL: The NSRL Goes Mobile  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}

    • Michael Ogata, NIST

  • StegoDB: An Image Dataset for Benchmarking Steganography Detection Algorithms

    • Jennifer Newman, CSAFE-ISU

  • Statistical Methods for Change Detection Over Time in Digital Forensics Data

    • Padhraic Smyth, CSAFE-UCI

• ILLICIT DRUGS AND TOXINS
  • Emerging Designer Drugs and Synthetic Marijuana
    • Eric Steel, NIST

  • Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Libraries for the Identification of Controlled Substances  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}

    • William Wallace, NIST

  • A Better Understanding of Cannabis Chemistry to Aid in Vapor Phase Detection of Intoxication

    • Tara Lovestead, NIST

  • NMR in Forensic Drug Analysis  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}

    • Aaron Urbas, NIST

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November 9, 2016

• BALLISTICS AND ASSOCIATED TOOL MARKS
  • Forensic Topography at NIST
    • Rick Silver, NIST
  • Next Generation National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN)  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}
    • Johannes Soons, NIST

  • Ballistics Toolmark Research Database  

    • Alan Zheng, NIST

  • Statistical and Algorithmic Approaches to Matching Bullets  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}

    • Helke Hofmann, CSAFE-ISU

  • Developing Methods for Comparison of Cartridge Breechface Images

    • Xiao Hui Tai, CSAFE-CMU

• TRACE EVIDENCE

  • Trace Evidence Measurements and Standards

    • Eric Steel, NIST

  • Assessment of a Portable Spectrophotometer for Measuring Color of Automotive Paint Trace Evidence

    • Stephanie Watson, NIST

  • Evaluating Sources of Variability in Forensic Fiber Trace Evidence Examination

    • Julie Bitter, NIST

  • Materials Deposition Inkjet Printing for Spatially Resolved Chemical Standards of Relevance to Forensics  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}

    • Greg Gillen, NIST

• FORENSIC GENETICS
  • Applied Genetics
    • Pete Vallone, NIST

  • Interpretation of Complex DNA Mixtures

    • Mike Coble, NIST

  • Population Sample Sequencing at NIST

    • Katherine Gettings, NIST

  • Development of the Next Generation of the PCR-Based DNA Profiling Standard:  SRM 2391d  {presentation will be made available upon completion of editorial review}

    • Becky Steffen, NIST

• CSAFE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Latent Fingerprint Proficiency Testing

    • Daniel Murrie, CSAFE-UVA

  • Combining Fluid Dynamics, Statistics and Pattern Recognition in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, to Quantify Spatial Uncertainty and Remove Human Bias

    • Daniel Attinger, CSAFE-ISU

  • Human Factors in Identification Decisions: Cross-cutting Interdisciplinary Research

    • Cleotide Gonzalez, CSAFE-CMU