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UPCOMING EVENTS
2008 Inter/Micro Conference
Highlights include:
Wednesday 7/9:
“The Approach of the Investigative Microscopist to Physical Evidence Casework”
Speaker: Dr. Peter R. De Forest, John Jay College
“Analysis of Crystals Resulting from Different Catalysts used in the Manufacture of Triacetone Triperoxide”
Speaker: Peter Diaczuk, John Jay College
Thursday 7/10:
Microscopical Thinking and Trace Evidence Workshop
Instructors: Dr. Peter R. De Forest, Wayne Moorehead and Peter Diaczuk
The 63rd Annual Short Course for Prosecuting Attorneys, and the 51st Annual Short Course for Defense Attorneys.
The Center will continue its association with Northwestern University School of Law’s renowned Short Courses by organizing the forensics content with presentations by Center affiliates Peter R. De Forest, Peter Diaczuk, James Doyle, Angela Crossman and John Lentini.
International Association of Forensic Sciences
July 21 - 25, New Orleans, LA
PAST EVENTS
6th Annual Microscope Day at John Jay
April 16, 2008, New York, NY
Spring 2008 - Graduate Lecture Series
A New Legal Architecture: Litigating Eyewitness Identification Cases in the 21st Century, New York, New York, March 14-15, 2008.
60th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February 18-23, 2008, Washington D.C.
Eastern Analytical Symposium
The 46th Annual Eastern Analytical Symposium was held November 12th to 15th, 2007 in Somerset, NJ. It was attended by more than 3500 scientists and students. There were a number of half-day sessions dedicated to forensic science topics. Associate Professor Thomas A. Kubic of John Jay arranged and moderated a session dealing specifically with forensic microscopy.
The John Jay Science Department was well represented with presentations by Professor Peter De Forest and lecturers Nicholas Petraco and Peter Diaczuk. Each talk was attended to overflow capacity.
Trace Evidence Symposium
59th Annual Meeting of the
American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February 19-24, 2007, San Antonio Texas
(for advanced program details, click on the link above)
Presentations to be given by Dr. De Forest include:
Essential Context and Concerns about the “Context Effect”Cross-Examination: Is it an Adequate Remedy for Incompetent or Dishonest Expert Testimony? – Personal Reflections
Another presentation of interest, A Novel Approach to the Examination of Soil Evidence: Mineral Identification Using Infrared Microprobe Analysis by Brooke Weinger, John A. Reffner, Peter De Forest.
- Off the Witness Stand - Using Psychology in the Practice of Justice - A conference to celebrate the centennial of Hugo Munsterberg's classic On the Witness Stand
- Director James Doyle is addressing The Advanced Science and Technology Ajudicative Rescource Project (ASTAR", science-minded judges) in Ohio, September 20-21, 2006
- Director James Doyle and Professor Jennifer Dysart, Psychology, are leading the science portion of an Emory Law School Program on eyewitness memory on November 16, 2006.
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Center Wins Grant for Ground-Breaking Arson Screening Program
The Center has won a grant of $248,000 from the JEHT Foundation for an innovative Arson Screening Project, designed to assess the damage done by generations of “bad science” arson convictions. The Arson Screening Project will be the first program to address systematically the roles played by improved science in revealing mistaken convictions in a non-DNA context.
The 63rd Annual Short Course for Prosecuting Attorneys, and the 51st Annual Short Course for Defense Attorneys.
The Center will continue its association with Northwestern University School of Law’s renowned Short Courses by organizing the forensics content with presentations by Center affiliates Peter R. De Forest, Peter Diaczuk, James Doyle, Angela Crossman and John Lentini.
Dr. Peter R. De Forest , having retired from the Department of Science at John Jay after 37 years, has joined the Center as Chief Science Fellow.
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