CSAFE @ ISU - REU 2017

All-Hands Meeting Sessions

Francesca Spencer

Posted on June 13, 2017

1pm Session: Blood Pattern Analysis During this discussion, terms like the String Method and fluid dynamics and the area of convergence and origin were thrown out there and I personally wasn’t sure whether these came from a statistics or forensics background (except for fluid dynamics, I’ve heard of that... [Read More]

Assignment 2

Kahlil Sample

Posted on June 13, 2017

Some questions to consider for each of the afternoon sessions: What forensic methods are discussed? What statistical methods are discussed? If you were a full-time researcher with CSAFE, which one of the projects presented in the group would you most like to work on? Why? What future work is... [Read More]

Week 2 Blog Post

Sam Rew

Posted on June 13, 2017

1pm Session: Human Factors In this session there were a couple forensic examiners in attendance as well as several researchers to discuss how human play into introducing statistics into forensics. The forensic methods discussed included autopsy, fingerprinting, and DNA analysis to name a few. Several statistical methods were tied... [Read More]

CSAFE 2017 All Hands Meeting

Amanda Rae

Posted on June 13, 2017

CSAFE All Hands Meeting June 7-9 2017 1pm Session: Statistical Foundations This meeting was very cohesive. Everyone was respectful of one another and the facilitator kept the flow moving within the session. The core theme of this session revolved around a handful of ideas. Access to information.... [Read More]

Week 2: Conference Notes

Maddie Quistgaard

Posted on June 13, 2017

1pm Session: Fingerprints The first session started off with talking about how fingerprints are very different from other disciplines and how they are regarded as sure things. One person in the discussion described them as special. Another stated that it is the number one form of identification because its... [Read More]

CSAFE @ ISU REU

Summer 2017

195 Durham Center

Iowa State University

Leaders: Joe Papio, joepapio at iastate dot edu and Sam Tyner, sctyner at iastate dot edu

Description:

All-Hands Meeting Sessions

Francesca Spencer

Assignment 2

Kahlil Sample

Week 2 Blog Post

Sam Rew

CSAFE 2017 All Hands Meeting

Amanda Rae

Week 2: Conference Notes

Maddie Quistgaard

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