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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------
WEB PAGE: http://icfs5.eco.uniroma3.it/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ =======================
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= 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 fill the preregistration form and to send a title and a text-only abstract (max 300 words) BEFORE 15 JANUARY 2002 to icfs5@eco.uniroma3.it Instructions to be followed in preparing the
abstract, can be found
in the webpage (http://icfs5.eco.uniroma3.it/). ------------------------------------------------------------------
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION 15 January
2002 deadline for
submission of abstracts
15 February 2002 decision on programme of contributed talks 1 July 2002 deadline for poster submissions ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 - Universita' Roma Tre, Italy Bruce S. Weir - North Carolina State University, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Julia Mortera - Universita' Roma Tre
Vincenzo Pascali - Universita' Cattolica Sacro Cuore Mauro Scanu - ISTAT Paola Vicard - Universita' Roma Tre Silvia Bozza - Universita' di Venezia |