Call for Papers

[icfs5@mail.uniroma3.it]

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* THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORENSIC STATISTICS  *

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                    Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy 
                       August 30 - September 2, 2002

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                 WEB PAGE: http://icfs5.eco.uniroma3.it/
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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The program will include one stream of invited talks, a second stream 
of contributed talks and contributed papers to be presented in the 
poster sessions.
People interested in presenting a paper at the conference are kindly
invited to send a title and a brief abstract (300 words) 
BEFORE 31 DECEMBER 2001 to 
	
                icfs5@eco.uniroma3.it

Instructions to be followed in preparing the abstract, can be found 
in the webpage.

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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION

31 December 2001           deadline for submission of abstracts 
15 February 2002           decision on programme of contributed talks 
1 July 2002                deadline for poster submissions 
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Contributed talks will be selected by the Program Committee from among 
the submissions received. Unselected contributed papers will be eligible 
for poster presentation.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Colin G.G. Aitken - University of Edinburgh, UK
Ian W. Evett - Forensic Science Service, UK
Stephen E. Fienberg - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joseph Gastwirth - George Washington University, USA
David H. Kaye - Arizona State University, USA
Julia Mortera - Università Roma Tre, Italy
Bruce S. Weir - North Carolina State University, USA
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The Fifth International Conference on Forensic Statistics, will be held 
at the Venice International University, Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy, 
from August 30 to September 2, 2002. Previous Conferences have been held 
at North Carolina State University, University of Edinburgh and at 
Arizona State University. 
As in the past, the Fifth Conference is intended to bring together 
forensic scientists, lawyers, statisticians and those from related 
disciplines to discuss the many and varied uses of statistics in
legislative, administrative and judicial proceedings. It is anticipated 
that the 2002 conference will address the areas of DNA evidence, 
graphical structuring of evidence, epidemiological issues, discrimination, 
census undercounting as well as likelihood methods and appropriate 
means of presenting statistical evidence in court. 
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LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Julia Mortera - Università Roma Tre
Vincenzo Pascali - Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore
Mauro Scanu - ISTAT 
Paola Vicard - Università Roma Tre



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