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Intentional Language in Forensic DNA Testimony & Reporting

The live event will take place on Thursday, May 4, 11:00 AM-Noon CT.

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This webinar is a practical training tool for criminal justice training partners and DNA analysts who intend to provide clear and accurate descriptions of DNA results in forensic testimony and reports. This event will include real-life examples of good reporting practices and poor testimony practices from transcripts with immediate tips on how to avoid making common mistakes.

Visual Diagnostics for Algorithmic Cartridge Case Comparisons

Automatic cartridge case comparison algorithms can be used to measure the similarity between two fired cartridge cases. However, many of these algorithms are difficult to interpret, understand, and audit. We introduce a suite of visual diagnostic tools that are useful for understanding the behavior of automatic comparison algorithms and introduce a novel algorithm that returns a probability that two cartridge cases originated from the same firearm.

The live event will take place on Wednesday, March 29, 11:00 AM-Noon CT.

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Visual Diagnostics for Cartridge Case Impression Evidence

This research poster was presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual conference in 2023. An interactive poster is available for your viewing.

We were interested in creating diagnostic tools that help explain the behavior of automatic cartridge case comparison algorithms. Our results indicate that the visual diagnostics can be used to intuitively assess the similarity between two cartridge cases and predict the similarity score output by a comparison algorithm.

Probability Stats Starter

This content is on-demand and available immediately.

This beginner level Stats Starter focuses on Probability and its application to forensic evidence.

 

Conditional Probability Stats Starter

This content is on-demand and available immediately.

This beginner level Stats Starter focuses on Conditional Probability and its application to forensic evidence.

 

Judging Firearms Evidence

This webinar is on-demand and available immediately.

While firearms comparison evidence is commonly used in criminal cases, we have seen a recent and growing resurgence of judicial skepticism of firearms comparison evidence. These recent rulings, responding to scientific critiques, followed, however, many decades of near-universal acceptance of the evidence. We analyze the path of judicial rulings in this important area of forensic evidence.

Forensic Stats 101

This 30-hour course equips you to address the core concepts of probability, statistics, and their application to today’s issues in forensic science –– no matter your prior knowledge of statistics.

This course is self-paced and available for you to start learning today!

Tutorial on Likelihood Ratios with Applications in Digital Forensics

This webinar is on-demand and available immediately.

To date, digital forensics research has largely focused on extracting and reconstructing information from devices and the cloud.

 

Machine Learning for Forensic Practitioners Short Course

In this three-part short course, Dr. Heike Hofmann provides an overview of machine learning and how it applies to forensic evidence.

The three live sessions will take place on the following dates:

  • Thursday, May 18, 10:00 AM - Noon CT
  • Thursday, May 25, 10:00 AM - Noon CT
  • Thursday, June 1, 10:00 AM - Noon CT

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Ensemble SLRs for Forensic Evidence Comparison

This webinar is on-demand and available immediately.

To strengthen the statistical foundations of forensic evidence interpretation, likelihood ratios and Bayes factors are advocated to quantify the value of evidence.