[Forum SIS] ICFIS 8 Conference

[Julia Mortera]

8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORENSIC INFERENCE AND STATISTICS (ICFIS
2011)

Dates: July 18-21, 2011

Location: University of Washington School of Law
          William H. Gates Hall (UW Upper Campus)
          4293 Memorial Way, Seattle, Washington USA

Website: www.icfis2011.org

Email: icfis a uw.edu

Registration: Please visit the conference website to register online.

In recent years, the area of statistical reasoning applied to forensic
science has undergone a rapid growth and development both theoretically
but also in applied research, becoming a highly interdisciplinary field.
Indeed the domain brings together police officers, forensic scientists,
jurists, scholars from related disciplines and statisticians with a view
to understand the constraints, mechanisms and opportunities to provide
statistical and inferential support to the decision making process
either at level of the investigation or in court. It is within this
interdisciplinary framework that we are pleased to host the 8th
International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics.

This conference is the only forum where all these actors can meet and
exchange the many and varied aspects of probability and statistics in
legislative, administrative and judicial proceedings. It is the only
regular conference in the world offering a place for such a debate.

A significant part of the conference will be devoted to professional
development in this specific field in order to increase cross-discipline
awareness. All professionals engaged in the process are concerned with
decision making under uncertainty. There is a lot that jurists can teach
to statisticians and forensic scientists on how best to use their
expertise within the legal environment and to present their methods and
conclusions in a clear and intelligible way to lay persons. There is
also the converse opportunity for statisticians for example to expose
how best should their testimony be understood in order to avoid
misinterpretation in court.

Please join us at the University of Washington this coming summer in
Seattle. Information on the conference program, short courses,
registration, lodging, local area transportation and social activities
can be accessed via the conference website at: www.icfis2011.org.

The Washington State Bar Association has approved the July 18, 2011
ICFIS program for 7 hours of general CLE credit, and the July 19-21
ICFIS conference for 18 hours of general CLE credit.

Co-Hosts:

School of Law
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
University of Washington